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6 Feb 2013
Full-Time Senior Technical Writer (New York, NY)
Job Description
MediaMath empowers the online marketing professional with technology and services that enable advertisers and their agencies to make more efficient, effective and profitable marketing decisions across display, social, video, and mobile media. Our math-driven TerminalOne platform brings together digital media and data into a powerful and flexible solution that simplifies planning, execution, optimization and analysis of online campaigns. Since inventing the DSP category in 2007, MediaMath has delivered results for customers that include every major international ad agency and holding company. MediaMath is a privately held company headquartered in New York.
The Senior Technical Writer will report to the Director of Platform Training and will be responsible for writing a variety of documentation, including technical articles, user manuals, reports, brochures, and training guides. In addition, you will work closely with the software development, product, marketing and business development teams to ensure high-quality, accurate documentation for internal and external audiences.
*Please include a Cover Letter with your Application*
Responsibilities include:
- Experience writing a variety of technical articles, reports, brochures, and manuals for a wide range of users (Must be able to supply samples)
- In-depth knowledge of software development cycles, numerical and mathematical models and the RTB/Digital Media Ecosystem
- Design and organize documentation sets for new APIs and developer products
- Edit, clarify, and proofread documents written by others, and coach non-writers on ways to improve their writing skills
- Experience in programming and digital market terminology for structured and organic processes
- Experience documenting a software user interface
- Experience writing for a software developer or quantitative audience as well as for the business end-user
- In-depth knowledge of the digital space, project management workflow, AGILE, advertising, online auction, RTB and Algorithms
Leadership Qualities:
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change
- Manages the process of innovative change effectively
- Remains on the forefront of emerging industry practices
Education Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong MS Word, Excel, Adobe PDF and HTML
- Coordination skills for graphic displays and the production of the document as necessary
- Ability to read and understand source code written in Java, C++, Python and/or JavaScript
- Ability to write simple to complex code examples in Java, C++, Python and/or JavaScript
- Proficiency with HTML and CSS; proficiency in a UNIX environment
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
How do we reward our outstanding Math Men and Math Women? Well, we start with company equity, 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, short term and long term disability benefits, 20 paid time off days, free on-site chair massages and our 401(k). We then serve-up flexible spending accounts (health care, dependent care, transit and parking), bagel Fridays, free snacks and sodas, and the latest and greatest technology you need to do your job (including a $250 biennial allowance for the latest smartphone). And the cherry on top? Monthly MathMixers—including Potlucks, Trivia Nights, softball in Central Park, and game nights to name a few