Lead Technical Writer, MongoDB
$106-209k
Developer data platform
Open for applications
Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$106-209k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- Candidates must have extensive technical writing experience and 2+ years of experience managing a team of technical writers, developer advocates, or other technical communications-focused roles
- Is passionate about developing writing expertise on a team through reviews and mentorship
- Has experience prioritizing and planning documentation projects
- Works collaboratively with other documentation leaders and writers
- Grew a technical writing team through interviewing, hiring, and onboarding talented writers
- Possesses strong critical reading and writing skills
- Has experience writing content for the software architect persona
- Has experience with cloud and database technologies
- Is able to write code for technical examples in at least one programming language (e.g., C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript). Comfortable reading and interpreting code
What the job involves
- The MongoDB Documentation team is a group of writers and engineers who develop and maintain the documentation for the MongoDB product family
- Our goal is to help our readers successfully use MongoDB products by providing outstanding documentation
- The MongoDB Documentation team is a part of the MongoDB Product organization and is tightly integrated with the engineering teams responsible for each product
- We are hiring a Lead Technical Writer to guide the creation of world-class documentation for MongoDB’s cloud products and cloud architecture recommendations
- You will use your leadership skills to manage and grow a talented team of writers, prioritize and plan documentation projects, and influence the strategic vision for the MongoDB docs
- You will use your strong writing and technical skills to guide production of clear and consistent product documentation, architecture recommendations, and tutorials
- Your team’s work, along with the three other MongoDB docs teams, support a large global community of new and experienced MongoDB users
- Lead a small technical writing team with opportunity for team growth
- Integrate with a highly collaborative group of documentation leaders to build a strong cross-functional documentation team
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Design, Developer Relations, and Product Marketing to ensure the documentation meets the needs of our users
- Foster a positive and effective team culture
- Develop the writing, testing, and technical skills of the team through coaching
- Contribute feedback to the team through copy review and planning discussions
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product on the team’s roadmap
- Interview and hire talented writers for all areas of the MongoDB Docs team
- Advocate for users in everything your team produces
- Produce technically accurate and well-written documentation when time permits
- In 3 months:
- You've met with all of your team members and are starting to learn their interests, strengths, and areas for development
- You’ve become comfortable with our toolchain and writing workflow
- You're getting to know our partners in Engineering and Product Management
- You’re getting comfortable with participating in intra and inter team discussions
- You've completed any required technical and leadership training required for the MongoDB Product team
- In 6 months:
- You review your team’s work and are using their writing to learn more about MongoDB Atlas and enterprise architectures
- You've adapted to our style of writing and instill technical writing best practices in team members’ work
- You have worked with each team member to develop a growth plan tailored to their career goals
- You and your manager have discussed your career trajectory and growth opportunities
- You've developed a working knowledge of the MongoDB server and know who to follow up with when you need to learn more
- In 12 months:
- You're actively guiding the team to produce consistently high quality documentation for enterprise architectures, entire feature sets, complex tutorials, and high level concepts
- You know how much work your team can manage and are delivering content at a healthy pace
- You provide expert copy and technical reviews for your team members
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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