Senior Technical Writer

• Assist in leading the strategy and structure of Home Assistant documentation, ensuring consistency and clarity across the ecosystem.
• Define documentation priorities and keep the content roadmap aligned with project goals.
• Write and maintain technical documentation yourself, with a focus on complex topics like hardware integrations, installation, and advanced features.
• Create, assign, review, and coordinate documentation tasks across the Home Assistant documentation team and work closely with the community.
• Develop scalable processes for planning, writing, reviewing, maintaining documentation, and handling user feedback.
• Mentor other writers and contributors, providing feedback and ensuring high quality.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and product teams to ensure documentation is accurate and user-friendly.
• Set up and maintain your own Home Assistant test environment to try out features, integrations, and hardware in order to produce accurate and practical documentation.

This role creates positive change by supporting the development of open-source smart home technology that promotes privacy, choice, and sustainability, enabling users to have control over their smart home devices without vendor lock-in.

• 5+ years of technical writing experience, with at least 2 years in a senior, lead, or planning role.
• Proven ability to set documentation priorities and manage content roadmaps.
• Experience with topic-oriented writing for software products.
• Strong experience working effectively in a remote, asynchronous environment where written communication drives collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and ability to work independently.
• Ability to mentor and review the work of other writers.
• Affinity with developer tooling commonly used for documentation at the Open Home Foundation, such as Visual Studio Code, git, and GitHub.
• Professional Fluency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work within Europe.

• Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
• Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth. We will provide the missing days if your country/laws do not provide such compensation.
• A budget for your work hardware once you start. After three years, you may keep this equipment for personal use.
• An annual smart home budget to ensure you keep up-to-date with the latest that smart homes offer.
• A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
• One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
• If you are currently working on Home Assistant-related side projects, you can spend work time maintaining them.
• Salary: Netherlands: 80,000 EUR, UK: 73,000 GBP, Spain: 62,000 EUR, Portugal: 61,000 EUR, Other countries: Compensation can be discussed during the first interview.