What You'll Do
- Understand your customers, gathering data and sharing information with your colleagues to improve the product experience
- Partner with design, and support teams to develop a content strategy for your features, including what type of content customers need at each stage of their interaction with our products
- Work with engineering and your learning team colleagues to respond to the delivery of multiple simultaneous software releases
- Collaborate with writers for other product areas to improve efficiency through shared content and create a seamless content experience for customers
- Evangelize company-wide for great customer experiences, and help establish content development.
- Create and contribute to product guides, help articles, and potentially user interface copy
- Create diagrams and visuals to make it easier for customers to understand and navigate our software
What You'll Need to be Successful
You have demonstrated an ability to develop technical documentation content and processes. Be prepared to share examples and writing samples that demonstrate your qualifications during the interview process.
- 6+ years of directly relevant technical content experience working for an enterprise software company
- 6+ years of experience writing and/or editing for the web and working with Wiki markup and HTML
- BA/BS degree in Technical Writing, Technical Editing, Journalism, or English, or relevant professional experience
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
