Technical Writer

Job Description

Technical Writer (Contractor)


US – Remote, OH, Ohio, United States of America

ID: R39116


Job Description

Our Company:
Trimble Transportation produces products that optimize the movement of freight. We provide shippers and carriers the mobility, enterprise, and visibility software tools they need to run their businesses more efficiently. As the leading provider of Transportation Management Software (TMS), Asset Management
Software (AMS), and Fleet Management Software (FMS), we are dedicated to propelling companies in the trucking industry toward increased efficiency, lower costs, and optimize operations.

Position Purpose:
We are seeking a detail-oriented person with exceptional writing, research, and organizational abilities. This person will work with product managers, software engineers, quality assurance analysts, trainers, and documentation staff to research, learn, and document applications in Trimble Transportation’s Enterprise suite.

Our ideal candidate is a person who can write about highly technical subjects for various audiences. You must have the skills and experience to produce these types of materials:

  • Online help for Microsoft .NET applications, web applications, and API integrations
  • Installation guides

Position Accountabilities:

  • Work with the owners of technical knowledge to collect information that is relevant to end-users for their successful configuration and operation of Trimble’s software products.
  • Use templates and documentation style guidelines effectively to develop documentation that has a consistent visual and structural approach
  • Organize and present content in a manner that meets the needs of the intended audience
  • Comply with quality standards for well-organized, clear, accurate, and complete end-user documentation
  • Adhere to departmental requirements regarding project tracking and publication

Required Competencies:

  • Excellent written, verbal, and organizational skills
  • 5+ years’ experience in developing online end-user documentation
  • Experience developing online documentation following the docs-as-code model (using lightweight markup languages (Asciidoc), static site generators, and Git)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Technical Communications, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to work well as part of a team
  • Intermediate skill level with Microsoft Word
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks, set priorities, schedule and meet deadlines, and take initiative to accomplish tasks with minimal supervision in complex situations
  • Strong time management, research, and problem-solving capabilities

Preferences:
We are especially interested in candidates with one or more of the following:

  • Background in the transportation industry
  • Familiarity with any of the following:
  • HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript or similar web programming languages/tools
  • Basic Microsoft SQL skills/ SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS)
  • API documentation
  • Agile development environments, specifically as part of a shared services team
  • Atlassian products, specifically JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket

Trimble Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, or any other protected factor. EOE/M/F/V/D

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Senior Data Analyst 

Job Description

Senior Data Analyst

  • REMOTE
  • DATA & ANALYTICS
  • FULL-TIME

As a member of the Data & Analytics team, you will become the company expert on data. Our data is key to the company’s ability to live up to our mission to provide our customers with concierge level service and you will be an integral part of ensuring we succeed. You will work on a variety of projects across the company from forecasting future inventory demand and building out an accurate source of truth on inventory stock, to ensuring we can fulfill every order, to working with our stakeholders and defining key metrics and visibility for performance management. You will work with stakeholders across the business to help them make smarter, data driven decisions and inform company-wide strategy as we continue to grow.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead analytics projects to monitor the health of our business and solve a wide range of business problems to inform data-driven strategic and operational decisions
  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
  • Communicate directly with stakeholders to understand the business, project requirements, and to better ideate analytical solutions
  • Define KPIs, develop and own business intelligence dashboards, and provide ongoing tracking and insights to partners
  • Build and improve advanced analytical models, such as our inventory size predictions and shipment forecasting, to allow team to be forward looking in identifying and solving potential inventory shortages
  • Collaborate with data engineering to ensure that we have accurate sources of truth data to serve needs across our organization
  • Engage stakeholders and leadership to identify obstacles and implement data analytics and tools to help improve their day-to-day business decisions and operations

Who You Are

  • A problem solver that is excited to take on new challenges and, given context, being self-directed and enthusiastic about owning your work autonomously
  • You use SQL every day to help companies understand their operations and make data-driven decisions, preferably with experience working with warehouse, inventory, and/or customer care data
  • Knowledge of Python and/or R for in depth analyses
  • An empathetic analyst that thrives as a true partner to business stakeholders and understanding their needs, building strong relationships to achieve the shared goal of using analytics and insights to drive the business forward
  • A storyteller that uses data visualization to communicate insights effectively to a variety of stakeholders; Tableau experience is a plus
  • You have a strong understanding of business statistics, forecasting and predictive analytics
  • You show modesty, kindness and support to your team and the people you work with
  • Bonus points for experience with similar data stacks and tools: Highjump, Snowflake, dbt, Tableau

Benefits and Perks of Working at The Black Tux

  • We pay people equally and based on market compensation data
  • We provide a 401(k) plan through Betterment
  • Our full-time employees receive stock options and have a stake in the company
  • Our Health, dental and vision plans are competitive, and we cover 100% of employee coverage and 50% of dependents
  • Open vacation time
  • Monthly cell phone reimbursement
  • TBT Women’s Group
  • TBT Diversity and Inclusion Group
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave
  • Apple equipment or whatever you need to be productive
  • Monthly employee events and trainings
  • Free suit rentals

We’re an equal opportunity employer to all. We interview and hire applicants of all backgrounds, orientations, expressions, and identities.

Our people are the most important asset to us. Our benefits, perks, pay and culture reflect this in every decision we make. If you want to learn more about us, check out our Culture Book.

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Software Engineer – Back End 

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer – Back End

REMOTE, CALIFORNIA

TECHNOLOGY

FULL-TIME

The Black Tux is reinventing the formalwear rental industry so people can show up at their best on the days that matter most. The company designs and manufactures modern rental suits and tuxedos that actually fit—made of 100% wool, ordered online, and delivered for free. Using a combination of machine learning and industry-leading customer service, The Black Tux guarantees a perfect fit every time.

Just as we are on the cutting-edge of men’s fashion, we also strive to stay on the cutting-edge of technology and are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer. Our biggest goals on the technology team are to deliver the best possible customer experience, building solutions that adhere to high software engineering principles, and striving to maintain a positive culture where diversity and personal growth are highly valued.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and improve software systems for a growing, disruptive e-commerce company
  • Design, develop and optimize scalable backend infrastructure to support the core product
  • Create APIs to integrate with front end and 3rd party systems from highly distributed and independent microservices
  • Serve as a key member of the backend design team through strong collaboration
  • Contribute to the development of the team, our standards, and best practices
  • Identify bottlenecks in our efficiency as a team (“tech debt”), propose and implement solutions

Who You Are

  • 5+ years of professional software development
  • Proficiency with Python (or other OO languages, such as Ruby or Java)
  • Familiarity with a web framework: Django, Pyramid, Flask, etc.
  • Conversant in modern Javascript and Node.js
  • Knowledgeable of modern web technologies
  • Experience building distributed services
  • Strong software architecture and design skills, solid CS fundamentals, pragmatic software design and architecture patterns, and their best usage
  • Excellent data modeling skills and strong experience with query optimization
  • Experience with developing and deploying on containerized architectures such as ECS and Kubernetes
  • Ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical and architectural concepts and ideas with a wide variety of stakeholders
  • Strong organizational & leadership skills
  • Previous work on consumer web products built from scratch
  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment

Perks and Benefits of Working at The Black Tux

  • We pay people equally and based on market compensation data
  • We provide a 401(k) plan through Betterment
  • Our full-time employees receive stock options and have a stake in the company
  • Our Health, dental and vision plans are competitive, and we cover 100% of employee coverage and 50% of dependents
  • Open vacation time
  • Monthly cell phone reimbursement
  • TBT Women’s Group
  • TBT Diversity and Inclusion Group
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave
  • Apple equipment or whatever you need to be productive
  • Monthly employee events and trainings
  • Free suit rentals

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Content Developer 

Job Description

Content Developer

Summary :

At Pearson, we value the power of inclusive culture. To cultivate inclusivity, we embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do and promote a company culture where differences are embraced as strengths, opportunities are equal and accessible, consideration and respect are the norm, and everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. We seek diverse talent who bring along with them different perspectives, experiences, and ideas that in turn help us as a company better understand and meet the diverse needs of all learners throughout the world.

Location: US-Remote

Responsibilities :

Content Management 45%

  • Learn and use content management systems, processes, and policies
  • Review and evaluate content for consistency and accuracy to certification industry standards
  • Analyze and improve item performance
  • Plan maintenance of existing content

Contractor Management 25%

  • Provide training and feedback to contractors
  • Coordinate resources for meetings and content development
  • Assign work and manage workflow for resources

Project Management 20%

  • Help develop overall schedules
  • Set deadlines and manage contractors schedules
  • Track due dates for multiple projects and participate in daily status meetings
  • Strong personal time management required

Facilitation – 10%

  • Create workshop materials
  • Work with other facilitators to refine shared meeting facilitation needs
  • Facilitate Item Training, JTA workshops, Tech Reviews, Standard setting meetings, and other meetings
  • Conduct in house training on exam development process industry standards.

Qualifications :

  • Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts, English, Education, Information Technology, Instructional Design or equivalent
  • 2+ years professional test development experience
  • 1+ year of professional project management experience (technical project management preferred)
  • 2+ years of content editing (grammar, spelling), Blooms taxonomy application experience
  • Strong knowledge of all Microsoft Office products
  • Strong knowledge of Web applications and exposure to web development a plus
  • High degree of technical literacy
  • Experience with tools for creating and modifying digital graphics

A background in the testing and assessment industry is strongly preferred. Item and Test Development experience, as well as training experience, is a plus.

As required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Pearson provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is $40,000 – $55,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is herehttps://pearsonbenefitsus.com/

Job: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 7067

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Technical Project Manager 

Job Description

Technical Project Manager

Remote, United States

Services – Implementation & Project Management | Perm Full-time

Jobvite, an Employ brand, is an end-to-end Talent Acquisition Suite that takes a marketing-first approach to intelligently attract dream candidates, automatically screen for the highest quality, engage employees invested in the future, and retain the people who care the most about your organization by combining the power of AI and the human touch. Jobvite is proud to serve a broad range of customers including Zappos, JPMorgan Chase, Ingram Micro, Trek Bikes, and Panasonic.

Primary areas of focus & responsibility for your role:

  • Primary point of contact, for technical services, and communication with the customer, as well as internally within Jobvite and with any 3rd parties.
  • Orchestrate technical resource coordination and ensure flawless execution of projects for all post-sale technical implementation activities.
  • Fully utilize delivery model, templates & artifacts to structure all customer implementations and enable deployment predictability
  • Assist in the definition of project scope, objectives, and business analysis involving all relevant stakeholders to develop a solution strategy and ensure technical feasibility.
  • Define, create and maintain, the technical portion of project schedule, plan, and business analysis documentation for customers.
  • Manage and communicate project status per defined cadence.
  • Lead design and configuration discussions of web development and integration projects while providing technical knowledge of the Jobvite application(s) to customers.
  • Perform risk management to minimize project risks. Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues encountered by users. Document issues and defects within provided internal tools.
  • Collaborate with Jobvite team members by providing important customer feedback, process-improvement recommendations, troubleshooting tips and action items to support the product.
  • Contribute and support organization’s quarterly goals.
  • Ownership of technical project plan and coordination with customer program work plan.
  • Maintain quality customer relationships and be the trusted customer advocate.

What you bring to your role:

  • 3+ years previous experience working within a technically focused environment acting as a technical project manager/business analyst
  • Experience developing systems and processes to create operational efficiencies
  • Previous experience interfacing with customers in a technical project management/business analyst capacity
  • Experienced and comfortable interacting with all levels of management and roles within the customer organization
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and escalate customer issues as required
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to effectively explain complex solutions to customers
  • Highly organized with an ability to balance multiple projects and escalations in a fast-paced environment
  • High-Level understanding of SaaS, web development and data integrations is a plus

About Employ:

Employ empowers organizations of all sizes to overcome their greatest recruiting and talent acquisition challenges. Offering a combination of purpose-built intelligent software technologies, services, and industry expertise, Employ provides businesses of all sizes with powerful solutions for recruiting a diverse workforce. Through its JazzHR and Jobvite technologies, and NXTThing RPO services, Employ serves more than 12,000 customers across all industries. For more information, visit www.employinc.com.

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