R&d Documentation Specialist Ii

**Requisition #**: 15421

**Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement**:
When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

**Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.**

**Summary / Role Purpose**

The R&D Documentation Specialist II creates a variety of Ansys documentation deliverables. They determine the best way to organize and deliver information, write and revise supporting content for products, and review content for technical accuracy, consistency, and style. This role requires effective planning, scheduling, research, writing, and editing skills. The R&D Documentation Specialist II works with development teams, keeping informed of product development activities to determine the need for new documentation as well as revisions, corrections, and changes in previously released materials.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**
- Determines audience needs to create user documentation, tutorials and videos for Ansys products
- Updates and revises previously released documentation
- Acquires enhanced knowledge about both Ansys products and Ansys documentation tools, processes, and procedures
- Works under some supervision

**Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience**
- BS in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Computer Science, Journalism, or Engineering with 2 years’ experience
- Fluency in English, along with excellent written and spoken communication skills. French is a plus
- Ability to gather and analyze technical and product information from various sources, paying close attention to detail
- Capacity to develop user-centric documentation ensuring a high level of quality, consistency, and accuracy
- Comfort in managing multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, geographically diverse environment
- This position does not qualify for immigration sponsorship

**Preferred Qualifications and Skills**
- Familiarity with Ansys products
- Familiarity with the concepts of documentation authoring, common project management software and structured documentation, as well as, oXygen, DITA, XML, Git, Camtasia, user-centered design processes, agile development methodologies and continuous delivery best-practices
- Experience determining the best method in which to present information and then creating the appropriate output(s), such as topic-based help, videos, tutorials, graphics, and interactive learning systems

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. **Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement.**

Our Commitments:

- Amaze with innovative products and solutions
- Make our customers incredibly successful
- Act with integrity
- Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

- Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's next
- Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
- Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
- Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

- We commit to audacious goals
- We work seamlessly as a team
- We demonstrate mastery
- We deliver outstanding results

**INCLUSION IS AT OUR CORE**
We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive.

**WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS**

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost.

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic directio