Technical Writer - SaaS

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you'll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.

As a Technical Writer you will develop product enablement resources for all audiences, including our internal stakeholders—from our customer success team to our partners—and our external customers. The content resources you create will help ensure the success of our implementation projects and help customers use our product.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Write and edit technically accurate, high-quality content.
• Assess core personas and their motivations and develop the appropriate content to support them.
• Determine the clearest and most logical way to present product information for user comprehension.
• Act as user advocate in the creation and review of UX content.
• Generate innovative ideas for content development and delivery.
• Collaborate with subject-matter experts, including product managers, software developers, customer success, and partners to gain an understanding of topics and user and content needs, create content for documentation and user interfaces, and help define product language and terminology.
• Collaborate with subject-matter experts, including product managers, software developers, customer success, and partners to gain an understanding of Solutions topics and user and content needs, create content for Solutions documentation and user interfaces, and help define product language and terminology.]
• Maintain and update content as the product evolves.
• Implement content feedback channels to identify and solve problems via documentation.
• Provide writing guidance and reviews for other contributors.
• Contribute to defining language styles, including the look, feel, mood, and voice for all content types.

Required Skills

This role is based at our office at WTC 11th floor, Old Mahabalipuram Road, SH 49A, Kandhanchavadi, Kottivakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600041, India. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

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About Appian

Appian is a software company that automates business processes. The Appian AI-Powered Process Platform includes everything you need to design, automate, and optimize even the most complex processes, from start to finish. The world's most innovative organizations trust Appian to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimize operations—resulting in better growth and superior customer experiences. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq : APPN]

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Skills Required

Content Development, Paas, Technical Writing, Documentation, Saas