Webflow is hiring a Staff Technical Writer

Webflow is hiring a Staff Technical Writer to own our developer documentation and make it a strategic advantage for our Website Experience Platform (WXP). You will lead the end-to-end quality, structure, and consistency of our developer portal, enabling our ecosystem.

What You'll Do

• Own Webflow’s end-to-end developer docs and information architecture of developers.webflow.com, serving as the lead for docs quality, structure, and consistency.
• Plan, write, and edit API references, guides, 'getting started' tutorials, and runnable examples alongside our developer platform team’s releases.
• Define the developer docs style guide and play a key contributor role in creating our API standards.
• Partner early with Product and Engineering to guide standards and ensure consistency across the platform.
• Innovate in docs delivery and guiding content that improves time-to-first-success and our ease of finding answers.
• Represent Webflow’s documentation practice externally and steward a healthy internal and external contribution model.

What We're Looking For

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Expert technical communicator for developer audiences, with a track record shipping complex API docs end-to-end.
• 6+ years documenting multi-language developer API platforms with at least 2 years of experience in JavaScript, TypeScript or other JS superset documentation.
• 3+ years managing developer portals with a focus on developer growth metrics.
• Familiarity with OpenAPI schema and API design best practices.
• Deep understanding of web frameworks like React, Next.js, and Astro with proficiency building simple web apps in those frameworks.
• Native-level fluency to read, write and speak in English.

Nice to Have

• A passion for self-guided education and seeing documentation as the highest-leverage developer enablement tool.
• Love being part of the product development lifecycle and guiding the shape of the products.
• Proactive in gathering and synthesizing insights and being a self starter for putting those insights into action.
• Getting energy from solving problems and wanting to share your solutions with the world.
• Staying curious and open to growth, actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI.

Technical Stack

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Next.js
• Astro
• OpenAPI

Team & Environment

You will report to the Senior Manager, Product Management.

Benefits & Compensation

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for full-time employees and their dependents.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers, plus additional pregnancy disability leave.
• Flexible PTO for all locations and sabbatical program.
• Access to mental wellness and professional coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Monthly stipends to support work and wellness.
• 401k plan or pension schemes, and other financial wellness benefits.
• Compensation: United States Zone A: $155,000 - $185,000; Zone B: $145,000 - $175,000; Zone C: $130,000 - $165,000; Canada (ON & BC): CAD $125,000 - $150,000 + equity: RSUs.

Work Mode

This position operates in a local-country work mode and is open to candidates in the United States and Canada (BC & ON).

Webflow is an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and is committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.