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Technical Writer - League Studio, Tools Core Tech

Riot Games

Los Angeles, CA 06-27-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Writer on League Studio's Tools Core Tech team, you will act as the guide for developing a high-quality documentation program related to various end-user art and design workflows, as well as game development software applications. This includes both curation and editing of documentation as well as designing the ongoing process for managing the documentation program for League Studio technologies.

You'll work closely with a team of tech artists, engineers, and end-users across League Studio games (League of Legends PC, Teamfight Tactics) to craft awesome content, ensure end-user success, and adoption of tools and workflow best practices for both art and engineering disciplines. You will report to the Sr. Manager of Product Management on Tech Foundations.

Responsibilities:
• Conducting interviews/strategy sessions with product owners, engineers, solutions architects, and others to gather information to create and/or edit content
• Developing templates and documentation standards and other related repositories and structures as needed
• Owning the content development process, including facts gathering, quality assurance, file organization and management, and presenting code samples
• Identify problems and suggest ways to better deliver accurate, complete, and well-written content that all meaningful audience levels understand (technical and non-technical)
• Work with technical writers on partner teams to ensure quality standards and ongoing compliance

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in CS or another related technical/ communications field
• Minimum of 6 years as a technical writer in the tech industry
• Extensive experience working with technology teams, or within the tech space, to help document processes, procedures, user guides, and diagrams for systems
• Proficiency with MarkDown HTML text editor, and Google content suite (Docs, Sheets)
• Experience with multi-media content editing tools (Adobe Creative Suite)
• Validated experience creating and developing technical content
• Experience designing and developing large-scale user success and content development processes

Desired Qualifications
• Champion of fundamental technical writing disciplines and principles
• Ability to learn highly technical products quickly
• Understanding of source control systems and maintaining multiple versions of content
Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

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It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb8xx6-3-145-63-136-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Riot Games

Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports.