Lead Technical Writer

Posted Feb 15

Job Description

Bloomreach is the world’s #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, empowering brands to deliver customer journeys so personalized, they feel like magic. It offers a suite of products that drive true personalization and digital commerce growth, including:

  • Discovery, offering AI-driven search and merchandising
  • Content, offering a headless CMS
  • Engagement, offering a leading CDP and marketing automation solutions

Together, these solutions combine the power of unified customer and product data with the speed and scale of AI optimization, enabling revenue-driving digital commerce experiences that convert on any channel and every journey. Bloomreach serves over 850 global brands including Albertsons, Bosch, Puma, FC Bayern München, and Marks & Spencer. Bloomreach recently raised $175 million in a Series F funding round, bringing its total valuation to $2.2 billion. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Sixth Street Growth. For more information, visit Bloomreach.com.  We’re looking for a Lead Technical Writer who will lead our Engagement Docs Team - working from anywhere in Slovakia/Czech Republic for a competitive salary reflecting their motivation and skills (starting monthly from EUR 1,700 + other benefits) with offices available in Bratislava and Brno. Are you up for the challenge?

What Challenge Awaits You?

The Documentation Team is responsible for organizing and maintaining knowledge about our product. This includes documenting various product features and putting together business use cases, enabling our clients to use our platform solutions independently. Used as a centralized source of truth by our clients, partners, prospects, and consultants, our documentation is essential for supporting our scalability and efficiency.

With around 8,000 pageviews/day, it gets more pageviews than our main website bloomreach.com. Just the Engagement portion of the docs gets around 4,000 pageviews/day.

Led by Jan Gercak (Knowledge Manager) and Christian Baerend (VP of Product Insight and Design), you will drive a key strategic initiative in a complex multinational environment across different departments (Product, Client Services, and Sales). We are paving Bloomreach's way to IPO and you can help us shape this ambitious vision.

As a Lead Technical Writer, Your Job Will Be To

  • Manage knowledge: Create and centralize knowledge - including features, business cases but also technical API documentation. 
  • Lead a team: Mentor and empower the Engagement Docs team to support overarching Engagement product and company goals.
  • Drive communication excellence: Maintain and continuously improve the highest communication standards.
  • Collaborate with experts: Cooperate with Product, Sales, Clients Services, and Support to improve documentation based on the departments’ feedback. 
  • Enable our users: Enable our clients, partners, and internal employees to execute more tasks independently in our products.

What Else You Might Like About This Role

  • Learn a lot and quickly! Explore the ins and outs of the Bloomreach product and the e-commerce industry. You will also be exposed to experienced and accomplished leaders and our residential communications coach Ivo Vecera.
  • Managing stakeholders across several teams. The Lead Technical Writer will be take part in cross-departmental projects and will need to influence stakeholders to succeed. 
  • Consulting-like experience: You will hone your problem-solving and structuring skills on a regular basis and you will have to quickly grasp difficult technical concepts.
  • Responsibility for the team: You will share both difficult but also rewarding moments of growth and accomplishment with the team. These are the challenges and joys of leading a team :)
  • Active exposure to strategic initiatives such as product development and partner onboarding.
  • Your work will be used directly by our clients, partners and Bloomreachers, ultimately contributing to our clients’ and platform’s success.
  • Bloomreach is a community of friendly, welcoming, and motivated people and you can become a part of it.

You Have The Following Experience And Qualities

  • Drive and ambition: You love to tackle new challenges, the bigger the challenge the bigger the motivation to make it happen and learn something new.
  • Excellent written command of English: Your English is on a native level and you can clearly communicate the most complex ideas. 
  • Clear communication and team player spirit: The ability to communicate concisely and convincingly in a way that demonstrates clarity of underlying thought. Prior experience with cross-functional work in a highly collaborative environment is a plus.
  • Management/Leading experience is a plus. You have experience leading a team, setting team goals, training, and empowering team members to deliver on their objectives.
  • Documentation and/or copywriting experience is a plus. You have written feature documentation, user guides, and release notes. You are familiar with documentation tools and processes.
  • Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, Jinja, and Javascript is a plus. You may not need to do any coding yourself, nor is it an application requirement, but familiarity and understanding of website mechanics will come in handy.

Regional Benefits - Central Europe

  • Monthly lunch entitlement up to 110€ per month
  • Pension scheme or health insurance depending on region

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More Things You'll Like About Bloomreach

Culture:

  • A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. 
  • We have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication. 
  • We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
  • We work remote-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
  • We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.
  • We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.
  • The Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.6/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5.

Personal Development

  • We have a People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.
  • Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*
  • Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins.
  • Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*

Well-being

  • The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*
  • Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*
  • We organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.
  • We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.
  • Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*

Compensation

  • Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*
  • Everyone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*
  • We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts.
  • We celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*

(*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits, usually for the first 6 months.)

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