Grafana Labs is hiring a Documentation & Technical Writing Manager to guide the direction and enhancement of our developer-focused documentation. In this role, you will lead a team of Technical Writers, collaborate with engineering and other groups to define deliverables, and contribute to writing and editing while creating process improvements.
What You'll Do
- Understand gaps in current documentation and organize content for scale.
- Establish best practices within the technical writing team to keep up with documentation needs across projects and products.
- Manage a team of technical writers.
- Work with technical writing management and stakeholders to support a collaborative, intentional content strategy across blogs and video.
- Collaboratively develop opinionated content that helps users become successful with products using technical documentation.
- Support a transparent project management process to help internal stakeholders track significant updates to documentation.
- Promote an approach that focuses on results and work-life balance by balancing assignments, managing priorities, and preventing over-resourcing.
What We're Looking For
- Experience leading and writing excellent developer documentation in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience interacting with engineering and other internal and external groups to define deliverables, priorities, and processes.
- Player/coach mentality to engage with an international team.
- Ability to quickly understand the organization’s needs and develop a plan, helping writers prioritize high-priority feature release work.
- Experience managing remotely across global time zones.
- Experience as a technical writer working on developer documentation.
- Experience working with the open source community.
- Experience building relationships and advocating for the technical writing discipline with internal stakeholders.
- First-class written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience working with docs-as-code, Markdown, Git, GitHub, and project management tools.
Technical Stack
- Markdown
- Git
- GitHub
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: SEK 686,964 - SEK 824,356 + equity: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included
- 100% Remote, Global Culture.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth environment.
- Transparent Communication – Open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks.
- In-Person onboarding.
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
Work Mode
This is a global, 100% remote role. The compensation range is based on Sweden as a location.
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique.
