Published: Sep 5, 2025 - The Information Developer serves as a technical lead and content strategist, maximizing content reuse and reducing development and translation costs while ensuring consistency in style and tone. This role oversees training and process documentation, partners with IT and stakeholders to define system requirements, and contributes as a writer or project manager depending on program scope. The developer provides mentoring to junior staff, consults on usability design, and also drives innovation by integrating new tools, technologies, and quality initiatives across multiple concurrent projects.

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1. Information Developer, TechNova Systems, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Conceptualize, plan, develop, and write documentation sets, including complex technical material, with limited supervision
- Coordinate with the team members for any dependent documentation deliverables
- Work simultaneously on multiple key projects
- Work collaboratively with business stakeholders and product managers to identify and vet changes in information requirements
- Develop interactive tools using basic front-end coding languages and user experience principles
- Make changes to the content management system using basic front-end coding languages and user experience principles
- Conduct user testing on interactive tools to ensure they're easily used
- Analyze reports on tool usage to inform maintenance and updates
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to display information in a user-friendly way
- Identify required user assistance content
- Analyze functional specifications and support documentation
- Work closely with subject matter experts to identify the content required to meet user needs
- Test, maintain, and upgrade information for users
- Revise current information for users for existing products and create information for users for new products
- Assist in the UX writing process by improving text-based elements of the user interface
- Provide recommendations for improvement
- Proofread texts to identify and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors
Skills on Resume:
- Documentation Writing (Hard Skills)
- Project Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Front-End Coding (Hard Skills)
- User Testing (Hard Skills)
- UX Writing (Hard Skills)
- Content Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Proofreading Accuracy (Soft Skills)
2. Information Developer, Greenbyte Solutions, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Create user, administrator, and API documentation for the Multicloud Management Platform (MCMP) Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, which enables cloud service purchase, analysis, integration, and monitoring
- Update and edit documentation between releases and for new releases
- Develop documentation and other materials using World English
- Work with SMEs across the organization and around the world to gather information, test products, and incorporate feedback
- Work with Program Management and Information Development teams to schedule and prioritize documentation requirements
- Ensure document quality, working with other members of the Info Dev team and QA
- Research content, through SMEs, other Info Dev team members, Confluence, JIRA, etc.
- Help define documentation processes and how they fit into overall department processes
- Writes product content for software products
- Writes content that is accurate, complete, unambiguous, concise, and contains only information that is valuable to the user
- Writes content that is focused on user goals, not product features
- Takes occasional guidance from the manager or team lead to write new content or update the existing content
- Independently uses and troubleshoots current Rocket authoring tools (oXygen XML Editor, DITA framework), graphic tools, source control tools, and technologies
- Identifies and reports scope for improvement
- Delivers UI text, context-sensitive help, videos, and guided tours, along with conventional help
- Shows good understanding of the products, industry, and business
- Works closely with an editor on content deliverables
- Regularly tests content and its function as an installed part of the product
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Content Editing (Hard Skills)
- SME Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Process Definition (Hard Skills)
- User-Focused Writing (Hard Skills)
- Tool Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Improvement Identification (Soft Skills)
3. Information Developer, CloudBridge Technologies, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Apply broad experience with modern IP networks to create publications that showcase Ciena’s cutting-edge technologies in action
- Explain to customers’ engineers how they can integrate Ciena gear into fast, robust and profitable network solutions
- Work with colleagues in multiple time zones, collaborating effectively with Product Line Management, Software and Hardware Design, Product Verification, System Network Engineering and Customer Support
- Plans, organizes, and develops content that supports customer needs including in-product and user content, reference guides, and release notes
- Participates in product grooming, planning, and development meetings
- Collaborates with product management, development, project managers, customer support, and users to plan, create, and update product content that supports the business strategy
- Participate in user research and evaluate the product interface from the user's perspective
- Works with an editor and/or a content strategist
- Assist in developing blog posts, community articles, and white papers that contribute to customer success
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge on trends and best practices for developing software content
- Set information strategy for multiple products across multiple technologies and a variety of tools across the division
- Codes, builds, compiles, and tests online information and/or sets-up, sets up in-development SW
- Test and create information deliverables and provide feedback on ease of use and user interfaces to product development
- Helps define/refine product requirements
- Interfaces with cross-functional areas as a member of the product development team, such as marketing, test, support, and manufacturing
- Represents the company in professional associations, e.g., STC, ASM-SIGDOC, IEEE, and technology standards committees such as the DocBook Standards Committee
Skills on Resume:
- Network Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Content Development (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- User Research (Hard Skills)
- Information Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Technical Writing (Hard Skills)
- Trend Awareness (Soft Skills)
- Standards Representation (Soft Skills)
4. Senior Information Developer, Innovis Software Group, Richmond, VA
Job Summary:
- Contribute to the development of high-quality technical documentation by working with diverse stakeholders to scope, design, edit, and publish internal/external-facing technical content
- Interactively contribute to the documentation creation and maintenance process
- Take ownership of the documentation for multiple products, follow through and complete the product cycle, and report accurate and timely status for all assignments
- Write and update high-quality help content and user interface (UI) messaging
- Create new help content that addresses user needs, use cases
- Deliver a variety of content, i.e., online help, quick starts, Support KB articles, FAQs, API user guides, videos
- Work with reviewers to ensure technical accuracy and appropriateness of content according to prescribed project deliverables and schedules
- Performs tasks related to the construction of technical and non-technical illustrations and graphics or changes to existing illustrations/graphics
- Work closely with the Support team, Product Management, Development, QA, to drive the creation and production of technical information for blogs, Community, Knowledge Base system, technical white papers, etc.
- Ensures compliance with customer requirements, company and government specifications, engineering standards, and language usage principles
- Ensure quality and timeliness of documentation
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Content Ownership (Soft Skills)
- UI Messaging (Hard Skills)
- Multimedia Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Accuracy Review (Soft Skills)
- Graphic Illustration (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Quality Compliance (Hard Skills)
5. Senior Information Developer, Nexora Data Systems, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Support OCLC’s strategic approach in the design and development of materials for OCLC members
- Ensure that educational materials are aligned across products on shared platforms and align with business strategies
- Write and produce content of documentation which includes multiple formats/types, such as help systems and online documentation
- Prepare draft versions of documentation and distribute to reviewers to incorporate reviewers’ feedback
- Gather and analyze information about products, services, and features being documented
- Learn and use products via prototypes
- Plan and manage documentation projects to ensure on-time delivery of documentation within the constraints of project schedules
- Develop materials to proactively serve members and to reduce the number and length of customer service calls
- Plan and develop information resources in the appropriate format
- Aggregate web-based and training materials
- Create web-based materials using a controlled vocabulary that supports OCLC’s global strategy, meets quality standards, and is member-focused
- Anticipate the needs of large and specialized audiences
- Develop partnerships with product management
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement based on product and member needs
Skills on Resume:
- Material Design (Hard Skills)
- Educational Alignment (Hard Skills)
- Content Production (Hard Skills)
- Information Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Web Development (Hard Skills)
- Audience Anticipation (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
6. Information Developer, BrightPath Analytics, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Technical lead and content strategist for maximizing content reuse and minimizing development and translation costs of content
- Oversee training and internal process documentation to ensure extended writing teams are fully operational and following best practices for development
- Partner with external IT teams and other stakeholders to drive business and system requirements for the content management system
- Periodically lead individual programs as a writer and/or project manager, depending on the scope and size of the program
- Drive innovation and integration of new technologies and quality initiatives into projects and activities within the print design organization and with partner teams
- Lead and provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members
- Contributes to and enforces compliance with style guides and standards to ensure consistency in content style and tone
- Advocate for new tools/methodologies to ensure information deliverables across the division improve customer satisfaction with products while maintaining a competitive cost envelope
- Consults on product usability design (e.g., GUIs, command names)
- Participates in multiple projects concurrently
Skills on Resume:
- Content Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Process Documentation (Hard Skills)
- System Requirements (Hard Skills)
- Project Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Technology Innovation (Hard Skills)
- Team Mentoring (Soft Skills)
- Style Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Usability Consulting (Soft Skills)