Overview
Bring your passion for creating engaging stories about satellite imagery, drone imagery, and aerial photography to a dynamic and influential team at Esri. The product engineering writing team is looking for an experienced, creative, and hard-working writer to create reference help documentation, blog articles, videos, guides, and tutorials about imagery. In this role, you will work closely with teams across Esri to communicate and demonstrate best practices about hosted imagery, imagery workflows, and raster analytics. We are looking for individuals who have a strong planning, problem-solving, and analytical mindset. Those who can translate complex ideas into clear and compelling messages within established deadlines are well-suited for this role.
Responsibilities
- Write documentation in the ArcGIS Help system about using hosted imagery and raster analytics
- Create blog articles, videos, guides, and tutorials for GIS practitioners that provide guidance, best practices, and applied workflows for imagery and raster analytics
- Create innovative workflows for applying imagery in various communities, programs, and industries
- Collaborate with product development, product marketing, product management, documentation, sales, and other teams to provide learning resources about imagery capabilities in ArcGIS
Requirements
- Portfolio Submission: Writing samples of your recent work
- 2+ years of professional writing experience related to satellite imagery, drone imagery, remote sensing, or GIS
- Exposure to web-based content management systems to create and publish documents
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to translate complex concepts into clear, concise, compelling content
- Effective time management and organizational skills; work proactively and volunteer assistance
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in an agile environment with a fluid mix of collaborative and independent work
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, remote sensing, English, or related field
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this posting. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in Canada
Recommended Qualifications
- Blended background including technical and creative writing
- Familiarity with image processing, management, and analysis
- Experience with ArcGIS
- Exposure to web development patterns using REST and Python
- Master’s degree in GIS, remote sensing, English, or related field
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The Company
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If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!
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What We Do
As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location.
We pioneer problem solving with GIS to help you see what others can’t.
We build ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping & spatial analytics software. ArcGIS software and apps combine mapping and data analytics to deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for organizations of all sizes.
