What are the responsibilities and job description for the User Content Developer position at Sopheon Corp?
Sopheon is seeking an energetic and motivated User Content
Developer to join its team. As a User Content Developer at Sopheon, you will
join a fun, fast-paced Agile environment working directly with software
engineers, quality assurance experts, product owners, and customer service
professionals to provide high-quality product features and supporting
documentation and training materials.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
· Learn and understand the design, behavior, and
implementation of the company’s products.
· Work closely with cross-functional positions
including software engineers, quality assurance analysts, product owners, and
customer service professionals to gather information regarding documentation
and training needs for new and existing product features.
· Create, maintain, and continually improve the
company’s product documentation set including online Help, quick reference
aids, administration guides, and installation guides, embracing single-sourcing
and emerging industry trends.
· Design, maintain, and continually improve the
company’s training offerings including creation of an instructional/tutorial
library and engaging e-learning content.
· Estimate, plan, prioritize, and coordinate work
to meet delivery schedules and to ensure accuracy of created content.
· Participate in strategic initiatives including
designing and creating additional material based on direct user feedback.
· Aid in defining and recording the department’s
internal style decisions and procedures.
· Work quickly and effectively in an Agile
development environment, integrating processes into the overall product
development and release cycles.
Essential Skills and
Experience
· Degree in Communication, Journalism, English, or
related field.
· Strong writing, editing, proofreading,
organization, and oral communication skills.
· Ability to quickly learn and understand complex
topics and concepts and to communicate those concepts clearly to others.
· Proactive, flexible, confident, and able to work
in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
· Curiosity and drive to learn product
functionality and how users with various roles and responsibilities interact
and use the software in their daily jobs.
Desired/Preferred Qualifications
· Experience creating tutorial videos using Adobe
Captivate or similar tools, and integrating effective e-learning content into a
Learning Management System
· Knowledge of topic-based content creation for
use in single-sourced deliverables.
· Exposure to industry standard development tools
such as MadCap Flare, InDesign, or RoboHelp.
Other
· Samples of your writing required if selected for
the interview process.
Send resumes
to jobs@sopheon.com. See our company
website at www.sopheon.com to learn more
about the company.
Success Criteria for this Role
· Understand the Accolade solution and can
document new features and generate training based on existing knowledge and
attendance in Sprint planning and daily standups
· Deliver documentation on time within each sprint
· Publish engaging, interactive training modules
according to the outlined goals for training
· Work with cross functional teams to determine
the trouble spots in Accolade and highlight those in training and online help
· Able to create and maintain the more advanced
features in Flare that have already been implemented