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Senior Technical Writer - Purview
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewWe are a team of product designers, UX researchers, content designers, and technical writers. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we design product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect and secure their digital environments with peace of mind. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Do you have a passion for words and a skill for translating complex ideas into clear prose? Do you enjoy working hands-on with technology and learning how different technologies work together? Are you interested in a job where you get to contribute to the evolution of the technical writing discipline by shaping how AI-powered tools enable content creation? Our team creates customer-facing technical documentation for Microsoft Purview, a cloud-based product that provides unified data security, governance, and compliance solutions. We're looking for a technical writer who thrives on helping customers succeed with technology. You can find our content, which includes web-based articles, prescriptive deployment guidance, and technical infographics, here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/. The audience for our docs includes IT professionals, as well as specialists in the fields of privacy, compliance, and law. If this job sounds intriguing to you, we'd love to hear from you.
ResponsibilitiesCreate world-class content for web, in-product, and AI-mediated experiences. Words matter, and you'll use the right phrasing and guidance to inform and empower our customers. Partner with engineering, marketing, support, and other internal teams on end-to-end customer scenarios, helping ensure a consistent and coherent experience across products. Define the content strategy for your assigned areas, influence others, and help align teams on targeted scenarios. Plan, write, test, and maintain technical content for enterprise IT admins and compliance, privacy, and legal professionals. Leverage an evolving AI toolset in the creation and maintenance of technical content. Review and use content data to help inform content strategy and develop your knowledge of customer needs and industry trends. | |