Technical Writer (remote Eligible - Costa Rica)

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · Costa Rica · CE Enablement

This role focuses on creating and maintaining customer-facing content for a SaaS product, including documentation, video scripts, and Help Center articles. A key aspect is leveraging AI tools to enhance content production, improve quality, and scale output, requiring experience in integrating AI into professional workflows and building custom AI configurations. The role also involves optimizing content for discoverability and contributing to content strategy and processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use AI tools to accelerate content production, improve quality, and scale output—applying established team workflows and experimenting with new approaches as the tooling evolves
  2. Produce customer-facing video content, including scripting, recording, and light editing in collaboration with stakeholders and subject matter experts
  3. Distill specification documents and internal technical specifications and use the information to create targeted, quality, customer-facing content. Deliverables include but aren’t limited to:
  4. Optimize content for discoverability via Search
  5. Work on improvement projects to implement content governance tools, improve processes, and document changes.

Skills

Required

  • 3-5 years of experience writing or editing content for a variety of audiences on the web
  • A BA in English, Technical Communication, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
  • Basic understanding of and ability to use HTML formatting
  • Strong Command of English language both oral and written (C1 and above)
  • Experience developing templates and processes for ensuring consistent delivery
  • Understanding of SEO and GEO best practices
  • Experience using analytics tools (Google Analytics, for example) to make impactful content decisions
  • An ability to distill technical jargon and turn it into clear and professional language that is customer-focused
  • Familiarity with video content production—scripting, screen recording, or light editing
  • Experience creating screenshots and/or visual diagrams to promote understanding of complex ideas
  • Strong organizational skills and an ability to perform basic project management and prioritization tasks
  • Experience with content production, for example, moving a document from a draft stage in one tool and formatting and publishing it to a CMS
  • Experience using one or more content management systems (experience using Drupal 9 or newer is a plus)
  • Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools into professional workflows, including building custom AI configurations (such as GPTs or Gems) and connecting LLMs to external platforms
  • A point of view on where AI is taking technical writing, incuding familiarity with AI writing tools and an interest in expanding how AI is used in content workflows

Nice to have

  • Smartsheet Product Certification

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools into professional workflows, including building custom AI configurations (such as GPTs or Gems) and connecting LLMs to external platforms
  • A point of view on where AI is taking technical writing, incuding familiarity with AI writing tools and an interest in expanding how AI is used in content workflows