Technical Editor - Imagery Workflows

Overview

By harnessing your enthusiasm for remote sensing and written communication prowess, you can help organizations get value from working with imagery, rasters, and remote sensing data.  This is an opportunity to lead the efforts to publish practical and sustainable workflows that make customers successful using all forms of imagery on the ArcGIS platform.  Leveraging the team’s imagery expertise along with your great writing skills and technical understanding, you can craft and publish clear and meaningful documentation. You’ll influence ArcGIS users to adopt proven templates and applicable software scripts by expressing imagery solutions in an engaging manner. 

Responsibilities

• Review and edit content from authors and subject matter experts for consistency, clarity, and technical accuracy
• Coordinate the writing and release of documentation and workflows on the Imagery Workflows website
• Document and share workflows and projects in samples, tutorials, blog articles, videos, and help documentation
• Utilize your experience with imagery products to ensure our solutions are simple and deliver a great user experience
• Work closely with product management, software development and sales teams throughout the development and release process
• Monitor user responses to forum posts, blogs, and other message boards
• Coordinate the imagery presence at Esri’s User Conference Expo

Requirements

• Two or more years of experience in product support, productt documentation, or product testing
• Ability to convey complex topics concisely, clearly, and effectively
• Knowledge of GIS and remote sensing
• Familiarity with the ArcGIS system, including ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Web APIs
• Bachelor’s in remote sensing, GIS, computer science or technical writing
• Portfolio Submission: Please provide a link to a portfolio or include samples of your recent work

Recommended Qualifications

• Experience writing technical user documentation or technical developer documentation
• Experience with content management system applications, such as SDL Trisoft, GitHub, etc.
• Knowledge of image processing and analysis
• Good understanding of web application development and modern website design

About Esri

Our passion for improving quality of life through geography is at the heart of everything we do. Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology inspires and enables governments, universities, and businesses worldwide to save money, lives, and our environment through a deeper understanding of the changing world around them.

Carefully managed growth and zero debt give Esri stability that is uncommon in today's volatile business world. Privately held, we offer exceptional benefits, competitive salaries, 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, opportunities for personal and professional growth, and much more.

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email askcareers@esri.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.