Astronomer is hiring a Documentation Team Lead

Astronomer is hiring a Documentation Team Lead to build and scale our content strategy for technical documentation. In this role, you will shape the user experience for Astronomer and Apache Airflow users worldwide by setting the vision for how documentation supports customers, guides the open source community, and differentiates our products.

What You'll Do

• Create a comprehensive content strategy for the Astronomer commercial product and open source project documentation.
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering organization to prioritize content development, operations, and content infrastructure improvement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Marketing and DevRel to deliver timely, supportive feature documentation for new launches.
• Lead and develop the Astronomer Docs team.
• Write and maintain high-quality documentation across product areas, including product guides, tutorials, API references, and release notes.
• Level-up the docs infrastructure tooling used by the docs team to create consistently high-quality docs, automate style guide suggestions, and define AI use cases.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience recommended, including experience leading teams to deliver SaaS, API, OSS, and on-premise technical product documentation.
• Proficiency in Git, GitHub, and version control tooling.
• Strong project management skills — you can work with teams and a list of cross-functional priorities to create actionable plans that deliver excellent content, on time.
• Enough familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm that you can read through values.yaml files and understand how they relate to feature enablement.
• Knowledge of the processes for publishing API docs and other kinds of product documentation.
• Conversant in cloud provider services and concepts like infrastructure management, authentication, and enterprise needs.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of React.js
• Knowledge of Apache Airflow
• Localization project management experience
• Fern Docs tooling experience

Technical Stack

• Git
• GitHub
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• React.js
• Apache Airflow
• Fern Docs tooling

Team & Environment

You will lead the Docs team and collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and DevRel.

Benefits & Compensation

• Salary: $140,000 - $170,000
• Equity component
• Comprehensive benefits package

Work Mode

This is a remote position open to candidates globally.

At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.