Senior Technical Publications Manager
Anduril· Mission Readiness : Technical Publications : Technical Publications
Costa Mesa, CA$147k - $196kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior technical publications manager to lead high-profile documentation programs for government customers, coordinating a team of technical writers to produce clear, user-focused manuals, guides, and release notes while scaling documentation processes and tooling.
Responsibilities
- Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with engineering and operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
- Contribute to Anduril’s technical writing toolkit - style guides, lifecycle, review process, and tool procurement requirements
- Evaluate and prioritize tasks to support product documentation efforts; use data-driven approach; address documentation roadmap risks
- Communicate and help manage expectations; note risks, identify mitigations, allocate resources
- Help build a culture of technical documentation with processes and training for others to contribute content; refine product maturity framework for documentation as part of productization
- Coordinate efforts to define requirements, assign testing and discovery tasks, and develop training to scale documentation across teams
- Assist head of technical documentation to partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all product development phases to ensure availability of user documentation
- Facilitate transition to infrastructure and tooling needed for scalable content creation and maintenance; manage onboarding of contributions from other teams
Qualifications
- 7+ years of demonstrated excellence generating technical documentation
- Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
- Experience with content authoring tools (e.g., RapidAuthor, Arbortext)
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills for technical subjects
- Autonomy and responsibility; strong project-management skills
- Passion for excellent documentation and user experience
- Eligible for Secret or higher security clearance (US)
- Ability to relocate to onsite Costa Mesa, CA if not local
- Pre-employment and randomized substance screening as required by company
Skills
Required:Technical writing leadershipEngineering document interpretationAuthoring toolsProject managementCommunication
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and other support)
- Equity grants included in majority of full-time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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