What are the responsibilities and job description for the JMP Statistical Discovery, LLC is hiring: Technical Editor (Contractor-6 month p position at JMP Statistical Discovery, LLC?
JMP, a subsidiary of SAS, is committed to empowering scientists and engineers via our world-class family of statistical software products. For over 30 years, JMP has enabled customers to speed new drugs to market, to design better products and processes, and to figure out how to restore ecosystems. Advancements are made when brilliant people use JMP statistical discovery software to see what theyve not seen before. If you are a problem solver, a connector, and someone who enjoys helping others, then you might just be the next person to join this dynamic, growing, and global team.
What youll do :
Were looking for a Technical Editor (Contractor - 6 month role) who will perform edits on technical customer-facing deliverables, apply corporate style guidelines, writing guidelines, and Global English guidelines. You will be responsible for reviewing and refining written content to ensure clarity, consistency, and accuracy. This role involves checking grammar, punctuation, style, and overall readability. This individual will work with writers and other project stakeholders to contribute to overall quality of documentation and customer satisfaction.
You will :
- Perform policy edits, copyedits, and substantive edits. Apply corporate style guidelines, writing guidelines, and Global English guidelines consistently and effectively to customer-facing deliverables in the form of product documentation, embedded user assistance, how-to videos, slide shows, articles, and so on.
- Manage projects using applicable tools and reporting procedures. Work with writers and other project stakeholders to produce quality deliverables on time.
- Apply knowledge of markup languages (e.g., XML and HTML) as needed. Is proficient with all relevant tools in the Publications' publishing environment.
- Apply topic content models and document type models. Work with writers during the planning and writing stages to develop and organize context.
- Participate in reviews of user interface text and software messages as needed.
- Participate on department and division teams as needed.
- Know and apply the principles of substantive editing.
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Additional Information :
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