User Education Specialist Technical Writer - R&D, Enterprise Asset Management

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 5000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.

At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment ; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Our Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution is highly rated by our customers, and awarded the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice 2022 award for EAM Software. We're also listed as #1 in Gartner® Global EAM Market Share 2021 By Revenue.   

At IFS, as a User Education (UE) Specialist Technical Writer you must:

• Create process models, end user documentation, installation and administration guides.
• Create release material slide decks and product screen shots.
• Create enablement material in the form of software explanation and demonstration videos as well as exam questions for our training academy.
• Write and review field descriptions as well as contribute to the creation of UI text, messages and labels.
• Analyze development epics and stories.
• Identify both the information and information formats required for audience success Some deliverables are pre-defined, while others require your judgement and expertise.
• Monitor customer forums and questions. Update relevant UE content and contribute to community knowledge base articles if warranted.
• Contribute your ideas for better UE approaches, processes, and technologies.

Use your skills to enable audiences to adopt and use our solutions as painlessly and rapidly as possible.

Who is your audience?

In this position you will work with teams delivering Asset Management solutions:

• Planners, engineers, technicians, and all the other roles involved in asset / equipment management
• IT roles that install, configure, and administer solutions
• IFS presales, marketing, and partners

Who will you work with?

• Agile development teams- developers, quality engineers, interaction designers, program managers
• Solution architects, product support, product management, product marketing
• User education community on company-wide initiatives and process improvements

What tools will you work with?

We are updating our vision for user education so there’ll be new tools to go with interesting new deliverables. Today, we’re using:

• JIRA
• Markdown, HTML editor Microsoft ExpressionWeb, 2c8 Modeling Tool
• Git, Sourcetree, Bitbucket
• Camtasia
• Microsoft PowerPoint, SharePoint, and other Office tools

What are we looking for from you?

• A user experience mind-set
• Ability to create clear, concise, structured content including documentation and videos
• Ability to engage with different stakeholders, teams, and team processes to achieve the desired UE goals and deliverables
• Flexibility to adjust some working hours to overlap with colleagues in other time zones
• A college or university degree in Technical Communication (or a related discipline with relevant writing experience)
• Experience creating help content for customer audiences

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

IFS Fact
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 5,000 employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com .