Technical Writer - Imagery And Remote Sensing

Overview

By harnessing your enthusiasm for writing, editing, and project management, you can help Esri users get value from working with imagery, rasters, and remote sensing data. This is an opportunity to lead the efforts to publish content that make users successful with all forms of imagery on the ArcGIS platform. Leveraging the team’s imagery expertise along with your great writing skills and technical understanding, you can craft and publish clear and meaningful workflows and documentation. You’ll influence ArcGIS users to adopt proven templates and applicable software scripts by communicating imagery solutions in an engaging manner.

Responsibilities

• Monitor user responses to forum posts, blogs, and other message boards
• Utilize your experience with imagery products to ensure our solutions are simple and deliver a great user experience
• Coordinate the imagery presence at conferences
• Manage the Imagery Workflows website by coordinating the writing and release of documentation in a content management system
• Review and edit content from authors and subject matter experts for consistency, clarity, and technical accuracy
• Research and learn technical information from subject matter experts in imagery and remote sensing by working closely with product management, software development, and sales teams throughout the development and release process
• Document and share imagery projects in samples, tutorials, blog articles, videos, and help documentation
• Synthesize information gathered from subject matter expert interviews to write and create documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, english, technical communications, journalism, computer science, or related industry is preferred (experience with imagery or remote sensing is a plus)
• Familiarity with the ArcGIS system; including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, or ArcGIS Online
• 2+ years writing technical documentation for products or developers, product support, or product testing
• Ability to convey complex topics concisely, clearly, and effectively
• Knowledge of GIS and remote sensing
• Portfolio Submission: Please provide a link to a portfolio or include samples of your recent work

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience with project management or event coordination
• Experience with content management system applications or technical writing tools (examples include SDL Trisoft, GitHub, Microsoft Word, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat, HTML, DITA, etc.)
• Knowledge of image processing and analysis
• Good understanding of web application development and modern website design

About Esri

Our passion for improving quality of life through geography is at the heart of everything we do. Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology inspires and enables governments, universities, and businesses worldwide to save money, lives, and our environment through a deeper understanding of the changing world around them.

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is $66,560.00 - $104,000.00.