
Information Architect
Jamf
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $85,100 - $181,700 per year
About the role
- Coach and mentor technical content authors on using the CCMS platform, including guidance on information types
- Strategy and maintenance of the DITA information model, metadata, and reuse with the goals of providing consistency across the portfolio and optimized translation costs
- Develop a plan for future content delivery (i.e., content strategy) such as redefining what type of content should go in a knowledge base article vs. a tech paper and end user delivery/navigation
- Advise on the optimal delivery mechanism for significant new content (For example, when a team is building a new feature, lead the discussion of whether the associated content warrants new deliverable or how to incorporate it within an existing deliverable)
- Compile, QA, and publish technical product content per Jamf product release schedules and for on-going continuous delivery
- Develop and maintain automated publishing workflows
- Collaborate with DocOps and Localization peers to test and implement CCMS and publishing platform feature and component upgrades
- Create technical documentation strategies for transforming existing content to accommodate changing business needs (e.g., modular content optimized for product bundling/Security SKU simplification)
- Guide team members in the creation of technical documentation that is prescriptive and based on user goals/tasks
- Work with other information architects on continuous improvements to content taxonomy, metadata, and labeling with the goal of improving the learning portal user experience
- Maintain positive relationships and collaborate regularly across content creation teams such as Support, Tech Enablement, Customer Education, UX, and Marketing
- Perform technical content inventory analysis and recurring content audits to ensure content is relevant and up to date
- Explore how AI can be used to improve existing content creation and publication with a focus on opportunities to leverage Agentic AI capabilities
- Oversight of decisions that impact content at the portfolio level
- Implementation and planning of in-app help and API documentation
- High-level direction for significant UI text that will have a broad impact across an individual product or the portfolio
- Serve in on-call capacity as needed for critical customer events
Requirements
- A minimum of 7 years of software industry experience working as either information architect or senior technical writer (Required)
- Demonstrated expertise with DITA XML, topic-based writing, and minimalism (Required)
- Hands-on experience compiling content, performing quality assurance (QA), and publishing to a content platform (Required)
- Experience developing and using CI/CD publishing workflows (Required)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization (Required)
- Business level proficiency in English (Required)
- Hands-on or academic experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agentic AI, or other strategies for using Artificial Intelligence in the context of technical communication development and delivery processes (Preferred)
- Strong technical acumen; you can read code and have experience with a server-side language (Preferred)
- Skilled at using XML editing tools (e.g., Oxygen) (Preferred)
- Git-based source/version control experience desired (Preferred)
- Experience with API documentation (Preferred)
- Experience with UX writing (Preferred)
- Software development industry experience (Preferrably Agile)
- Scripting experience (Preferred)
- Experience developing process and procedure information and/or training materials (Preferred)
- Experience with macOS and iOS platforms (Preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in Technical Communications, Software Engineering, or related field (Required)
- A combination of relevant experience and education may be considered.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
DITA XMLtopic-based writingminimalismquality assurance (QA)CI/CD publishing workflowsAPI documentationUX writingscriptingXML editing toolstechnical documentation strategies
Soft skills
coachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationrelationship buildingstrategic planningcontent strategy developmentproblem-solvingleadershipuser-focused documentation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Technical CommunicationsBachelor’s degree in Software Engineering