Provides hands-on design expertise, shaping the concept and seeing it through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms utilizing human-centered design practices and methods. Responsible for managing and overseeing the delivery of a range of projects, defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with key stakeholders.

* May oversee the team in addition to execution of specific marketing/advertising hands on tasks in their area of specialty
* Additionally, experience in senior leadership and large scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns

• Ensures the production of high-quality documentation that meets applicable standards and is appropriate for its intended audience.
• Drives the development of product documentation, coordinating the effort of subject matter experts and other technical writers.
• Provides guidance on policy requirements to ensure that all documentation products comply with these requirements. Ensures adherence to CMMI Level 3/AIMM platform requirements.
• Ensures continual improvement of documentation, system, and processes for preparing documents (conciseness, consistency, cost-effectiveness, clarity).
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining the various documentation libraries and resources for documentation teams.
• Understands business objectives and prioritizes work for the team accordingly.
• Negotiates scope and requirements for technical publications by participating with cross-functional leads in the development of schedules to address product roadmap requirements, including task estimation, resulting in execution plans clearly defining measurable phases or milestones.
• Determines resource allocation and deploys according to schedule, detecting project execution risks, surfacing issues, and proposing solutions in the event of resource changes or emergent issues.
• Contributes to technical documentation, including testing and documenting new features and editing knowledge manuals, procedures, and specifications.
• Keeps abreast of industry practices and new technologies to improve content quality and department productivity.
• Overall responsibility for leading the program, department, or functional area as designated. Oversees, directs, and mentors subordinate staff; communicates job expectations and enforces organizational policies, procedures and core values; responsible for recruiting staff, approving timecards, and conducting performance reviews and disciplinary measures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism or a related field or equivalent relevant experience.
• Industry leading certification for expertise preferred
• 8+ years of experience working with technical documentation with experience in creating end-user documentation and 0-2 years of management experience.
• Position requires a current TS/SCI with FSP.

Other Job Specific Skills

• Writes in a clear and concise manner to be able to convey information to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.
• Ability to deliver high quality documentation, paying close attention to detail.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat Professional.
• Experience with desktop publication tools from Adobe and Microsoft.
• Ability to understand and articulate technical requirements and translate these requirements into technical documentation.
• Experience with proven results in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Advanced technical writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to review technical documents for grammar, content, and style of writing.
• Ability to meet deadlines and communicate progress against schedule.
• Capability to handle sensitive and complex issues with discretion and good judgment.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.