Technical Writer, Data Analytics, BigQuery, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience as a technical writer for product documentation, or online publishing, writing technical, customer-facing materials.

• Experience working with software engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience producing excellent product documentation, online publishing, or technical blogging.
• Experience with databases and SQL.
• Experience with HTML or markdown and in a Unix environment.
• Familiarity with data analytics concepts.
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, support multiple projects, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

About the job

Technical writers communicate complex information clearly, concisely and accurately, and without relying on jargon. As a technical writer, your role involves tasks such as writing conceptual overviews and procedures, reading and writing example code, or updating help center queries and FAQs. Technical writers play a big part at Google. They are a key link between engineers, marketing associates, developer advocates, as well as all the external users and developers, tying together many vital but disparate parts of the Google ecosystem.

You develop complex, in-depth communications for internal and external audiences and manage projects that involve coordinating multiple junior writers.

BigQuery is Google's fully managed data warehouse for large-scale data analytics on Google Cloud Platform. As a technical writer for BigQuery, you'll help make developers successful using Google Cloud Platform. You'll collaborate with other tech writers, engineers, and product managers to deliver and maintain quality documentation and a great user experience. You'll also have the opportunity to learn about other Google Cloud Data Analytics products and will collaborate around tools, process, and innovation.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Write, publish, and maintain high-quality documentation and online content, including overview/concept documentation, how-to guides, and API references.
• Edit, clarify, and proofread documents written by others, and mentor non-writers on ways to improve their writing skills.
• Conduct audience analysis and align documentation deliverables to the audience’s needs.
• Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment, with support from the technical lead and manager.
• Collaborate with product team stakeholders to define documentation requests.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.