Documentation Team Lead, Astronomer

• If you’re a product-minded technical writer and content leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and design—and you’re passionate about building high-quality technical content that educates and empowers users—this role is for you
• 7+ years of experience recommended, including experience leading teams to deliver SaaS, API, OSS, and on-premise technical product documentation
• Proficiency in Git, GitHub, and version control tooling
• Strong project management skills — you can work with teams and a list of cross-functional priorities to create actionable plans that deliver excellent content, on time
• Enough familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm that you can read through values.yaml files and understand how they relate to feature enablement
• Knowledge of the processes for publishing API docs and other kinds of product documentation
• Conversant in cloud provider services and concepts like infrastructure management, authentication, and enterprise needs

Desirable

• We’re excited to be hiring for a Documentation Team Lead to lead and scale the product docs at Astronomer, shaping the content strategy and user experience for Astronomer and Apache Airflow users worldwide
• Astronomer’s documentation is recognized as some of the best in the industry, and this role plays a critical part in ensuring it remains world-class as our products and audience continue to grow
• As the Docs Lead, you’ll set the vision for how documentation supports our customers, guides our open source community, and differentiates our products
• Create a comprehensive content strategy for the Astronomer commercial product and open source project documentation
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering organization to prioritize content development, operations, and content infrastructure improvement
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Marketing and DevRel to deliver timely, supportive feature documentation for new launches
• Lead and develop the Astronomer Docs team
• Write and maintain high-quality documentation across product areas, including product guides, tutorials, API references, and release notes
• Level-up the docs infrastructure tooling used by the docs team to create consistently high-quality docs, automate style guide suggestions (such as vale.sh), and define AI use cases