Technical Writer (Part-Time Contract)
Title: Technical Writer (Contract)
Department: Product
Reports To: Senior Product Manager
FLSA Status: Part-time Non-Exempt (20h/wk)
Location: US Remote
About this role:
You'll work in a docs-as-code environment to keep Prove’s technical and product documentation accurate as our Solutions and Platform evolve. You’ll take ownership of Solution documentation in a hands-on role, backed by a supportive, collaborative team.
Day-to-day, you’ll help the team;
Review and refine AI-generated documentation for releases, ensuring technical accuracy for Solutions.
Optimize Integration guides and tutorials. Review AI-drafted how-to guides and validate technical accuracy by meeting regularly with product owners, engineers, and SMEs, leveraging OpenAPI specs to ensure content is fully optimized for developers.
Maintain the changelog. Review and polish AI-generated customer release notes to ensure clear, accurate communication about changes, affected users, and key benefits.
Serve as coverage and backup for the lead technical writer, ensuring business continuity for key operational processes, stakeholder inquiries, and office hours across Solutions.
What we're looking for:
Required
2+ years of experience or strong interest in technical writing.
Familiarity with REST API request and response payloads, status codes, and error responses.
Basic familiarity with Git workflows (branching, committing, pull requests).
Markdown fluency, and willingness to learn MDX components.
Care for precision: consistent terminology, correct field names, no invented behavior.
Proven ability to interview engineers and turn their input into accurate, up-to-date documentation
Self-direction in a part-time, remote, largely asynchronous role.
Helpful, but not required:
Experience in a technical support, QA, or engineering role is a plus.
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated compensation for this role is: $60 - 75/h
Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.