Senior Technical Writer - Remote

Overview

The Open Home Foundation is seeking a passionate technical writer, based in Europe, to join our Home Assistant department as a full-time Senior Technical Writer. This team is responsible for the open development, maintenance, and enhancement of the Home Assistant platform; supporting new functionality aligned with our roadmap and enabling the wider community to contribute and innovate easily.

In Short

• Assist in leading the strategy and structure of Home Assistant documentation, ensuring consistency and clarity across the ecosystem.
• Define documentation priorities and keep the content roadmap aligned with project goals.
• Write and maintain technical documentation yourself, with a focus on complex topics like hardware integrations, installation, and advanced features.
• Create, assign, review, and coordinate documentation tasks across the Home Assistant documentation team and work closely with the community.
• Develop scalable processes for planning, writing, reviewing, maintaining documentation, and handling user feedback.
• Mentor other writers and contributors, providing feedback and ensuring high quality.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and product teams to ensure documentation is accurate and user-friendly.
• Set up and maintain your own Home Assistant test environment to try out features, integrations, and hardware in order to produce accurate and practical documentation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical writing experience, with at least 2 years in a senior, lead, or planning role.
• Proven ability to set documentation priorities and manage content roadmaps.
• Experience with topic-oriented writing for software products.
• Strong experience working effectively in a remote, asynchronous environment where written communication drives collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and ability to work independently.
• Ability to mentor and review the work of other writers.
• Affinity with developer tooling commonly used for documentation at the Open Home Foundation, such as Visual Studio Code, git, and GitHub.
• Professional Fluency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work within Europe.

Benefits

• Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
• Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth.
• A budget for your work hardware once you start.
• An annual smart home budget to ensure you keep up-to-date with the latest that smart homes offer.
• A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
• One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
• If you are currently working on Home Assistant-related side projects, you can spend work time maintaining them.