Technical Writing Intern, Sigma Computing
Summer 2025
$36.00 - $42.00 per hour + Equity
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Business intelligence software solutions
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Business intelligence software solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$36.00 - $42.00 per hour + Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make the best possible decisions at every turn by removing the barriers that prevent people from analyzing data across sources and delivering the full spectrum of self-service cloud analytics and business intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for students who bring curiosity, a spirit for collaboration, and a desire for shaping the future of business insights and data exploration
- Applicants must be currently enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate degree program in the U.S with a graduation date of December 2025 or later
- Able to intern from June 2025 through early September 2025
- Applicants must be able to work in-person in our office in San Francisco, CA for the duration of their internship
- You must be legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2025 program
- Applicants must be pursuing at least a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Exceptional written and spoken communication skills, emphasizing clarity and approachability for various audiences
- A genuine desire to learn new things daily and to translate complex topics into actionable user assistance for end users
- Solid project management and communication abilities. You love to find the right resources and can own tasks end to end with minimal supervision
- Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment
- Able to commit 40 hrs a week for 12 weeks in-person in our San Francisco, CA office
What the job involves
- As an Intern at Sigma, you’ll work on documentation for various production features and learn best practices of developing user assistance for enterprise software
- Our interns work directly with our engineers, product leaders, and designers across the organization everyday
- As a Technical Writing Intern, you will test and document new product features that help our global user base analyze and gather insights from their data
- During your internship, you’ll partner directly with your tech writer mentor, as well as collaborate with other teams across the business to deliver a significant new documentation project that benefits our customers
- You will collaborate across the company to determine the best solution for your technical challenge. Interns will take their project from ideation through implementation, iterating and gathering feedback along the way
- Potential projects include developing new tutorials and examples, creating video and gif content to illustrate key concepts, or implementing information architecture transformations
- Write clear and accurate documentation that enables Sigma customers to use the product to effectively and efficiently achieve their goals
- Deploy documentation and gather insights from customer metrics to aid you in making better decisions and improve your business acumen and collaboration skills
- Work closely with the development team (including engineers, designers, and product managers) throughout the development process to understand features and functionality at the level of a subject matter expert
- Participate in cross-functional planning, bug bashes, and strategic discussions
- Explore and validate product features through rigorous testing, sharing insights with the team
- Translate complex technical details into clear, digestible documentation and release notes
- Work collaboratively and closely with other writers to ensure consistent and cohesive content, style, and messaging
- Improve existing documentation based on feedback from customer-facing teams and actively address knowledge gaps, prioritizing user empowerment for all audiences
- Develop visually captivating, dynamic documentation that includes diagrams, screenshots, and other visual aids
Application process
- A cover letter is required for applications to be considered. Please share why you’re interested in Sigma and how you meet the criteria listed in this "What we're looking for" section
Our take
Sigma Computing is cloud analytics and business intelligence solution that provides live access to cloud data warehouses using an intuitive spreadsheet interface, allowing customers to analyze data and make insight-driven decisions in a matter of moments, not weeks. The company’s unique architecture of expanding data improves both performance and security by exclusively retaining data in cloud warehouses like Snowflake.
The company boasts more than 220 enterprise customers, including US Foods, Blackstone, and Athenahealth, who rely on Sigma Computing to make confident data-driven decisions. The company’s iterative and community-driven approach to A&BI frees data experts to focus on more innovative, fulfilling initiatives.
The company’s impressive funding rounds, co-led by D1 Capital Partners and XN, with support from exciting investors including Snowflake Ventures, Sigma Computing aims to continue to rapidly scale and democratize data analytics for organizations of all sizes.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Dec 2021
$300m
SERIES C
Total funding: $566.3m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible Vacation
- Flexible Schedule
- Access to Health & Wellness Partners
- Parental Leave
Company values
- Assume Best Intent - We seek multiple perspectives to better understand where others are coming from, including our customers, partners, and each other
- Communicate Freely - We speak up when we have questions or ideas. We explain why decisions were made and are always open and honest with each other
- Be Curious & Constructive - We are curious about the world around us and want to dig into data to find our own answers and enable our customers to do the same!
- Be Smarter Together - We are greater together than the sum of our parts
- Aim for Greatness - We believe that failing at something great is better than succeeding at something mediocre
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rob Woollen
(CTO)Previous Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Served as CTO & SVP (Platform Product Management) at Work.com. Worked as a Chief Architect at BEA Systems and was a Software Engineer at HP.
Jason Frantz
(Chief Architect)Previously served at the CTO at Sigma Computing. Previous Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Worked as a Software Architect at MapR Technologies, previous Software Engineer at both Clustrix and Agami Systems.
Mike Speiser
(Board of Directors)Founding Investor & Board Member of Snowflake, Sila Nanotechnologies Inc., Lancework, Clumio, Observe Inc., Ghost, Luminary Cloud, Transposit, Stealth, and Pure Storage (previous Board Member). Co-Founder of Epinions.com. Previous VP of Community Products at Yahoo, and VP of Product Management & Product Marketing at Symantec.
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