Writer Jobs at IOTA Foundation

*Technical Writer
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The IOTA Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The Foundation’s mission is to drive the development and standardization of new distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) that enable permissionless innovation ecosystems. To realize this potential the IOTA Foundation is actively building a collaborative of developers, start-ups, private enterprises, and government, civil society and academic institutions.

Concretely, we engage in engineering, research and community organizing efforts around the IOTA Tangle – a new generation of DLT specifically designed to be the open and free trust layer for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

Mission:

As a Technical Writer, your job is to translate complex information into a language understandable by anyone. Documentation is an integral part of any software. You will ensure that everything we build at the IOTA Foundation can be easily understood and used by any user, developer, or architect.

Tasks

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify key content requirements
• Write, publish, and maintain high-quality documentation for non-technical and technical audiences, including concept docs, how-to guides, integration docs, codelabs, and API reference documentation
• Design information architecture for complex documentation sets
• Manage multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Work effectively across different teams to address problems and collaboratively arrive at solutions
• Perform and thrive in an environment where your work can change rapidly in response to customer feedback and data
• Be a part of a self organising, results oriented agile team
• Engage with and support the IOTA community to write, publish, and maintain documentation
• Review other writers' work

Requirements

• Lively writing, preferably with experience in technical writing or related fields like academic writing, popular science journalism, or copywriting
• Excellent, native level English
• Understanding of basic programming concepts, and ideally the ability to write simple programs or scripts
• Preferably experience in working with Git and Markdown
• Preferably experience in writing about software and its source code
• Understanding Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies is a plus
• Interest in Smart contracts is a plus
• Self-driven individual who takes responsibility for projects from their inception
• Ability, desire, and dedication to learn new technologies

Benefits

• The opportunity to work with the brightest minds in the industry
• The opportunity to make a true difference
• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback
• A flexible and agile organization with a flat hierarchy
• The unique combination of foundation and startup

The IOTA Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.