About the Role
Title: Copy of Senior Technical Writer, Research Strategy
Location: Vancouver
Job Description:
About AlphaSense:
The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!
Join the Research Strategy Team at Alpha-Sense as a Technical Writer. Successful candidates will show aptitudes in written English communication, understanding complex software with experience in capital markets or finance considered an asset.
What You’ll Do:
- Write and edit product literature documents including internal and external user guides for our FinData APIs.
- Meet with engineers, programmers, and product managers to learn about specific products or processes.
- Write and edit technical documents including reference manuals and product manuals as well as procedural documentation such as user guides and manuals.
- Assess the audience needs for whom the technical and procedural documentation is intended; adjusts tone and technical terms used to meet those needs and to ensure understanding.
- Plan writing processes and tasks and set timelines and deadlines.
- Create diagrams, charts, and other visual aids to assist readers in understanding a product or process.
- Gather feedback from internal stakeholders and customers to improve technical documents.
Who You Are:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent writing and grammatical skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to present complex data in clear, concise text.
- Ability to meet deadlines and to work independently.
- Ability to edit and proofread work of colleagues.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Bachelor’s degree in Technical Writing, Computer Science, English, Business or related is required.
- 5-10 years in technical writing, with experience in complex technical documentation.