Senior Technical Writer, Amazon Connect

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Amazon Connect is an AI-powered customer experience solution that enables superior outcomes at a lower cost. Since its 2017 public launch Amazon Connect has become an AI leader transforming how organizations of all types interact with their customers.

We are seeking a customer-obsessed Senior Technical Writer with experience designing delivering and leading documentation strategy and execution for Amazon Connect. You will drive the creation of comprehensive technical documentation using a variety of authoring tools and technologies API references and developer guides that enable customers to successfully implement and utilize Amazon Connects features and capabilities. The right person for this role has passion for learning others success excellence and business impact. They enjoy and thrive in an innovative dynamic organization. They are comfortable and confident in a highly ambiguous and iterative environment. This person possesses high ownership and ability to find solutions and a path forward when challenges arise. They collaborate effectively with product and engineering teams and key user groups to produce effective and trusted documentation libraries.

Key job responsibilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end documentation strategy for Amazon Connect including information architecture content standards and publishing workflows
• Create high-quality technical content including API documentation developer guides implementation tutorials and best practices
• Collaborate with product managers engineers and service teams to understand complex technical concepts and translate them into clear accurate documentation
• Establish and maintain documentation standards and best practices across the Amazon Connect documentation portfolio
• Define and implement documentation governance frameworks
• Drive strategic documentation initiatives across multiple AWS service teams
• Serve as the technical documentation subject matter expert for Amazon Connect
• Manage multiple complex documentation tasks and projects with little or no oversight
• Lead documentation projects for major feature launches and service improvements including re : Invent launches
• Mentor other technical writers and review their work for quality and consistency
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for documentation processes and tools
• Partner with localization teams to ensure documentation meets global audience needs
• Innovate to improve the user experience and documentation standards
• Build and maintain productive trust-based relationships with internal and external organizations and stakeholders cross-functional team members sponsors learners and colleagues

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $96900 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $195800 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and / or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Proofreading,Adobe Acrobat,Content Management Systems,Technical Writing,Visio,Microsoft Powerpoint,Sharepoint,XML,Confluence,Wiki Systems,Word Processing,Writing Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 96900 - 195800