Alteryx

Senior Manager, Technical Writing

Alteryx

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $183,100 - $198,670 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead and mentor a distributed global team of eight technical writers, cultivating excellence, curiosity, and accountability.
  • Evolve documentation through AI-assisted authoring, structured content reuse, and tighter integration with in-product help experiences.
  • Optimize content operations in Paligo, ensuring consistency and scalability.
  • Develop and report on key content metrics, including engagement and impact, to continuously improve quality and inform product decisions.
  • Partner closely with Product, UX, and Engineering to ensure documentation reflects real user journeys and drives product adoption.
  • Ensure accessibility and inclusivity across all Help documentation formats across our eight supported languages.
  • Collaborate with other content teams across Alteryx to deliver a unified digital experience across all company surfaces.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in technical writing or developer documentation for SaaS or enterprise software.
  • 3+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing, distributed content teams.
  • Proven success implementing or scaling a component-based CMS (preferably Paligo or equivalent) with localization workflows.
  • Experience with AI-assisted authoring, in-product help systems, and structured content strategies (e.g., DITA, DocBook, XML, or Markdown frameworks).
  • Strong command of analytics and performance measurement; comfortable defining KPIs, interpreting telemetry, and presenting results to executives.
  • Experience managing and delivering content in large-scale multilingual documentation websites.
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across multicultural, technical, and non-technical audiences.
  • Empathy for users and passion for simplifying complexity at scale.
Benefits
  • Medical
  • Retirement
  • Financial
  • Wellness
  • Time off
  • Employee discounts

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
technical writingdeveloper documentationcomponent-based CMSPaligoAI-assisted authoringin-product help systemsDITADocBookXMLMarkdown
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationempathycuriosityaccountabilityorganizational skillsadaptabilityproblem-solving