Technical Editor

ABOUT THE COMPANY At Wizard on Demand, we create technical articles, blog posts and guides for software companies around the world. We are a small, distributed team with no physical office — everyone works online. ABOUT THE POSITION We are looking for a Technical Editor to cover our current editor’s workload while they are on vacation. This is a temporary role with the estimated workload of 5-6 articles a week, for two weeks. We are open for a longer-term collaboration after the two-week period. As a Tech­nical Editor you can expect to: Edit articles on the top­ics of soft­ware devel­op­ment, machine learn­ing, and developer tools. You will focus mainly on improving structure, flow, and grammatical correctness of the articles. You aren’t required to be a subject matter expert. The author of each article is available for questions and revisions. Reference our internal style guides and update them with new entries as needed. Communicate with writers and provide feedback. REQUIREMENTS The fol­low­ing require­ments are a must-have for us: Great writ­ten and spoken Eng­lish (native or C2 equi­val­ent and above). Familiarity with AP style and Chicago Manual of Style. Interest in technology. Optional and would be considered a plus: a technology background, including technical writing, software development, engineering, IT, or other areas. WHAT WE OFFER We offer fair com­pens­a­tion, flex­ible work hours that adapt to your schedule, and a kind, sup­port­ive and empath­etic team. HOW TO APPLY Please send an email to the con­tact address on this ad and include the fol­low­ing inform­a­tion: 1. A few sen­tences about you: describe your editing experience and share 2-3 interests out­side of your work. 2. A link to a text you’ve edited recently. If you’ve edited a technical text in AP style, please share a link to it. 3. Your avail­ab­il­ity: would you be able to take on 5-6 articles a week for two weeks starting around Aug 25th?