ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Mission Success team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, and user documentation. We are seeking an experienced senior technical writer or manager to to lead high-profile and demanding programs for our government customers. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of products, which are world-class.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Technical Content Development Manager (internally known at Anduril as Technical Publications Manager) for Fury, your mission is to take extreme ownership of Technical Data Module development and delivery, providing accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Fury. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, operations, and various subject matter experts as well as Gov representatives and 3rd Party Venders, to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. You will utilize your excellent leadership skills to drive the team to deliver contractually required deliverables on time and defect-free. 

With Anduril’s focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the “arsenal of democracy.” Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally written and presented artifacts.

You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. This will require an in-depth understanding of what teams are relevant to documentation, and what an organized effort toward collaboration entails. You are to ensure that stakeholders are engaged at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format. Written content artifacts under this charger may include things like: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Generate, review, and edit s1000d data modules in Siemens Rapid Author
• Manage scope and schedule for all contractual milestones related to Tech Manual (TM) Development, for both internal teams and 1099 partners.
• Monitor overall team progress and provide weekly status reporting to leadership and stakeholders
• Manage risk and provide thorough, excellent communication about those risks and all other change.
• Manage communication with the Gov regarding TM development.
• Lead, educate and motivate a team of Tech Writers to deliver contract deliverables.
• Act as the single point of contact for all comms related to the TM project both internally, as well as with the customer.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation, preferably in accordance with Mil-Standards
• 3+ years Managing Technical Manual development, preferably in a fast paced Program of Record, environment
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
• Experience in working with Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) and Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) to plan and construct S1000D Publications
• Experience building DOD-focused content in XML
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience creating S1000D data modules, ideally MIL-STD-3048 experience
• Previous experience creating technical documentation in Aerospace and Defense (for DoD)
• Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage
• Prior military aviation service
• Experience Documenting Software Release content in an Agile environment
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects
• Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines. Impeccable project-management skills
• Strong presence and leadership skills
• Passion for excellent documentation and user experience