What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Writer, Game Developer Tools, 2643-1 position at Cypress HCM?
Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Writer to support our Game Developer Tools team on a contract basis. This role focuses on crafting clear, accurate, and comprehensive documentation that helps game developers integrate and use our games platform, SDK, and APIs.
You will collaborate closely with engineers, product designers, and product managers to ingest and synthesize complex technical information, then translate it into intuitive, developer-friendly content.
This position reports to the Product Design Manager on the Games team and will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design partners in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior Technical Writer to support our Game Developer Tools team on a contract basis. This role focuses on crafting clear, accurate, and comprehensive documentation that helps game developers integrate and use our games platform, SDK, and APIs.
You will collaborate closely with engineers, product designers, and product managers to ingest and synthesize complex technical information, then translate it into intuitive, developer-friendly content.
This position reports to the Product Design Manager on the Games team and will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design partners in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Responsibilities
- Create, synthesize, format, revise, and maintain technical documentation that enables game developers to effectively use the Games Platform, SDK, and APIs.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and product designers to gather, clarify, and validate technical information.
- Contribute to and refine the information architecture, voice and tone, style guide, and best practices for technical content.
- Improve and document workflows for how information is gathered from games platform engineers and transformed into developer-facing documentation.
- Communicate documentation changes and updates to internal cross-functional teams and external game developer partners (e.g., via release notes for new builds and updates).
- Collaborate with Product Design to understand platform features within the product UI and ensure the right context is clearly presented to developers.
- Present documentation work to stakeholders and peers for visibility, feedback, and continuous improvement.
- 5 years of relevant experience in technical writing, documentation writing, UX writing, content strategy, or information architecture.
- Proven experience creating documentation in close partnership with engineering and/or UX teams.
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritize effectively, and make strategic content decisions independently.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present work and incorporate feedback.
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows.
- Comfort writing in markup languages such as Markdown and basic HTML.
- Experience collaborating with game developers or working on tools, SDKs, or APIs in the games space.
- Familiarity with the development and documentation of design systems and language frameworks.
- Background or strong interest in games and game development.
- Experience working in fast-paced, feedback-driven environments with distributed, cross-functional teams.
- $80-90/hr.
Salary : $80 - $90