• Listed: 31 October 2017
  • Closes: 30 November 2017
  • Albany, North Shore, Auckland
  • Permanent - full time
  • Aderant
  • Become an integral part of our development team
  • Heaps to learn and lots of challenges if you enjoy writing about software
  • Friendly and supportive teams where there's no such thing as a dumb question

About the Company

We're a global company and a leading provider of practice management software products for law and professional services firms worldwide. In this region we have a large development team in Auckland, and two 'client facing' offices in Melbourne and Sydney. We are a strong adopter of Microsoft technologies and a Microsoft Gold Partner.

We have over 3,300 clients including:

  • 67 of the top 100 global law firms
  • The top 10 US law firms
  • 21 of the top 40 Australian law firms

About the role

Are you the sort of person who mentally corrects the spelling and grammar of your friends Facebook posts? Are you happy explaining to your grandparents how to get an iPad connected to the wifi? Do you have a discerning eye for detail?

If the answer is yes to these questions, this is a great opportunity to start your career in the software industry working alongside our development teams based in Albany on the North Shore.

You'll be able to combine your passion for technology and your analytical skills with your love for writing and editing alongside our other Technical Writers.

We have an ambitious product launch schedule which provides a great opportunity to be working on documentation for a stack of new products and applications. Far from sitting on the sidelines, you will be an integral part of the development process - actively involved and working very closely with the product teams and technical experts. You will be responsible for your own projects, creating high quality documents, application help and instructional videos for a range of external audiences.

Your team forms part of a larger Research and Development group which is split between Auckland and Tallahassee in North America. Together the R&D group are responsible for developing and maintaining our products which are sold and supported around the globe.

What you'll be doing

Creating and maintaining the standard documentation set for our applications (in accordance with our style guide):

  • User Guides/Online Help
  • Administration Guides
  • Customization Guides
  • Creating and maintaining instructional videos for our applications.

Collaborating with the development teams for the creation of the standard release document set for our applications (using our templates and guidelines):

  • Release Notes
  • Installation Guides
  • Set Up Guides

Working with the other Tech Writers in the maintenance of the Documentation Team shared resources, including:

  • Templates
  • Style Guide
  • Documentation Wiki

Skills/Experience

  • Passion - writing will be an important professional and vocational choice for you.
  • Team work - you'll love working and collaborating in a close-knit team.
  • Communication - this will be a real strength, especially offering opinions, sharing information and ideas and relating to your teammates. Your written skills will obviously be a specific strength!
  • Willingness to learn - you'll be eager to learn and figure stuff out and love to be challenged.
  • Qualifications - you'll have recently completed an appropriate tertiary qualification.
  • Business skills - accounting or finance experience or qualifications would be great
  • Technology Background - we'd prefer someone with a strong interest in IT and an aptitude for understanding and working with technical information. For example, reading specifications and other materials to obtain knowledge of how our software works. Experience with HTML would be an advantage, but not a necessity.
  • Tools experience - we are comprehensive users of Microsoft Word, and it'll help if you are familiar with a help authoring tool like Flare, or a video recording and editing tool such as Captivate or Camtasia.

Culture and benefits

Even though we're a global company the Auckland office feels like a software house - lots of technical people working in different teams and projects. We've got a funky, open plan office right across from Albany Westfield. As well as being pretty hard-core about work, we find some time for a Friday drink and some entertaining times out with the Social Club. We value our staff, so there's lot of perks, including a Bonus Pool, flexible working arrangements, additional sick leave, certification and tuition reimbursement, Income Protection, Life Insurance, an enhanced KiwiSaver Scheme and a Financial Advisor.

Want to know more?

Visit our corporate website: www.aderant.com

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