Datadog

Technology

ManagerI,Documentation

$145–210k ~AI est. United States; Canada Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Manager I, Documentation at Datadog. Skills: Documentation management, Technical writing, Team leadership. Manage technical writer reports. Oversee day-to-day work”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5-10 years experience researching documentation, 2-5 years experience managing technical writers, Publicly available technical writing samples, Comfortable reading two programming languages, Familiar with modern infrastructure, Familiar with Git/GitHub, Familiar with CI/CD tooling

Nice to Have

Experience with Ruby, Experience with Python, Experience with Go, Experience with bash, Experience with IaaS cloud services, Experience with containers

What You'll Do.

Manage technical writer reports

Oversee day-to-day work

Support growth and development

Foster positive engagement

Partner with Product teams

Partner with Engineering teams

Create public documentation

Maintain public documentation

Experiment with product

Interview subject matter experts

Develop documentation standards

Improve documentation processes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Engineering teams; Contributor community; Documentation team

Communication Scope

Technical documentation

Process & Methodology

Content project plans

Full Job Description

The Documentation team creates engaging and informative technical content, particularly our public product documentation: Datadog Docs. This is an opportunity for a Documentation Manager to help us deliver high quality technical documentation and lead one of our growing documentation teams. Our team is hands-on with the technologies that Datadog monitors, and collaborates with technical and product teams to create technical documentation for our APIs, SDKs, developer and security tools, and community developed integrations — thousands of pages of content! This role is remote in North America. What You’ll Do: Manage 3-5 technical writer direct reports, overseeing their day-to-day, helping them make and manage effective content project plans, formally supporting their growth and development, and fostering an environment that encourages positive engagement and performance. Partner with our Product and Engineering teams to create and maintain public documentation for users, developers, and SREs, helping them succeed with Datadog products, features, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools. Experiment with the product, dig into source code, and interview subject matter experts to research technical details for documentation. Collaborate with our contributor community and greater Documentation team to develop and improve documentation standards and processes. Who You Are: You have 5-10 years experience researching and developing documentation for technical topics, like databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and performance and security monitoring. You have 2-5 years experience managing a small team of technical writers, coaching their performance, guiding their career journey, and breaking down complex projects into achievable plans. You have publicly available technical writing samples. You are comfortable reading at least two programming languages (e. g. Ruby, Python, Go, bash). You have written or managed documentation as code, and are familiar with modern infrastructure such a

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