Top Writing Jobs in Ottawa

Owns global Oil & Gas marketing strategy, demand generation, budget, content, ABM, digital channels, events, analyst relations, and campaign performance. Leads a global marketing team and aligns corporate, regional, sales, and business development teams around pipeline and revenue goals. The role requires deep Oil & Gas industry knowledge, B2B enterprise software or SaaS marketing experience, global matrixed leadership, and effective use of AI-powered marketing technologies.

Maintains, revises, authors, and edits Canadian Forces Technical Orders and related technical documentation for naval platforms. Integrates OEM manuals, specifications, maintenance routines, and LSAR data while ensuring editorial quality, configuration control, revision tracking, and compliance with National Defence standards. Collaborates with engineers, LCMMs, procurement, and configuration management teams; coordinates verification, validation, indexing, cataloguing, translation support, and technical data package updates. The role is hybrid, may involve dockyard or shipboard work, and requires occasional domestic travel.

Attend virtual and in-person meetings, take accurate and concise minutes, and produce polished executive summaries or meeting reports. Minute takers must demonstrate strong writing, critical thinking, and exceptional attention to detail. The role includes mandatory self-guided training, approximately one to two meetings weekly, and on-site attendance in Ottawa roughly twice monthly. Candidates must be open to local and out-of-town travel. Work is flexible and part-time, with no guarantee of full-time or permanent hours.

The Proposal Writer prepares service proposals and marketing documents by interpreting RFPs, coordinating kickoff and follow-up meetings, developing proposal strategies with senior management, researching and editing technical content, managing timelines, assembling final layouts, coordinating submissions, and maintaining the proposal database. The role requires strong technical writing, editing, organization, prioritization, and proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe InDesign.

Writes promotional copy, email and SMS content, social posts, web copy, blogs, reports, and sales collateral for BUMP and its partners. Develops campaign voice and messaging, adapts tone for different audiences, and collaborates with designers and paid media teams. The role requires managing multiple deadlines, applying SEO and editorial standards, and using campaign performance insights to improve copy.

Leads technical and executive proposal writing, SME interviews, win-theme development, and content tailoring for strategic pursuits. Manages proposal libraries, resumes, case studies, governance, version control, and reusable assets. Supports AI-enabled content repositories, prompt libraries, automation, and workflow improvement. Partners with proposal managers and solution leads to strengthen narratives, capture lessons learned, and improve proposal quality.

Writes timely, insightful opinion columns and features focused on Ottawa issues, combining original reporting, analysis, and compelling storytelling. Produces enterprise journalism across text, video, audio, live blogs, and newsletters; participates in Globe events; collaborates with newsroom colleagues; and helps build a local journalism initiative that informs public debate and serves community needs.

Creates and maintains user and developer documentation for language technology products. Responsibilities include researching products, identifying documentation gaps, interviewing developers and users, planning updates, selecting documentation and translation tools, collaborating on product roadmaps, and supporting multilingual user communities. The volunteer participates in team meetings, conferences, and occasional travel while communicating effectively with technical and nontechnical audiences.

Researches funding opportunities and writes, reviews, and manages grant applications for nonprofit partners. The role requires translating complex program information into persuasive funder narratives, using AI tools thoughtfully, maintaining accuracy and deadlines, managing relationships with 25–30 partners, and improving scalable grant-support processes.

Responsible for creating engaging content for clients, conducting research, editing articles, and collaborating with internal teams for improvements.

Own and build Euler’s technical documentation ecosystem, including help center content, onboarding guides, FAQs, release notes, API documentation, integration guides, and internal playbooks. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, users, and partners to translate complex product functionality into clear, accurate content. Establish documentation standards, audit existing materials, identify knowledge gaps, and keep resources current as the platform evolves.

Research and develop physics, mathematics, engineering, and science video concepts from idea through final edit. Responsibilities include conducting deep research, fact-checking sources, writing scripts, sourcing expert contributors, directing edits, briefing animators and editors, leading video teams, and incorporating editorial feedback. The role requires accurate, engaging storytelling and timely delivery of high-quality educational content for Veritasium’s YouTube audience.

Lead research, writing, editing, packaging, and promotion for flagship reports, guides, essays, articles, and video scripts. Manage the publishing calendar, develop campaign copy for email, social, and landing pages, use performance data to refine content direction, and own editorial projects from ideation through launch. The role requires exceptional writing, strong self-editing, legal-industry understanding, B2B SaaS, journalism, or copywriting experience, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Create and maintain technical documentation and learning content for Grafana observability products. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and writers; test software and procedures; use analytics to prioritize content; improve information architecture and documentation workflows; apply AI tools responsibly; manage multiple projects; and mentor teammates. The role requires enterprise or developer-facing software documentation experience, docs-as-code proficiency, technical troubleshooting ability, and strong asynchronous collaboration skills.

Leads the development of persuasive proposals, presentations, and sales enablement materials. Collaborates with sales, marketing, and subject matter experts to tailor content to client needs, manage case studies and testimonials, and maintain a centralized content repository. Monitors industry trends and competitor offerings while managing proposal portals, multiple deadlines, and stakeholders. Provides broader organizational support on special assignments.

Leads the creation, editing, maintenance, and approval of user guides, release notes, and technical documentation for regulated software products. Collaborates with engineering, product, project, and subject matter experts to simplify complex functionality. Establishes documentation standards, publishing processes, content structures, and continuous-improvement frameworks while managing cross-functional initiatives, schedules, quality, consistency, and stakeholder approvals.

Provide confidential, real-time English or French CART transcription for Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing individuals in community settings. The role requires highly accurate transcription at 180–225 words per minute, captioning across multiple platforms, strong troubleshooting and interpersonal skills, strict confidentiality, and extensive understanding of Deaf culture.

Plans, writes, reviews, validates, formats, and maintains technical documentation for complex systems and projects. Produces user manuals, help text, requirements documentation, web content, diagrams, and related materials. Collaborates with developers, subject matter experts, project teams, and stakeholders to gather information, define documentation scope, ensure accuracy and usability, coordinate reviews, incorporate feedback, and deliver final documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

Manages end-to-end Canadian federal government bids, including bid strategy, bid/no-bid decisions, proposal writing, quality assurance, timelines, collaboration, RFP monitoring, reporting, and contract vehicle updates. The role guides proposal teams, improves bid processes, and ensures compliant, high-quality submissions. Candidates need five-plus years of Canadian federal government proposal experience, knowledge of procurement processes, strong writing and project-management skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and AI tools.

Creates and edits long-form instructional content for transportation-industry training courses. Researches regulatory and HR topics, develops outlines, storyboards, tests, and audio scripts, and collaborates with translators, designers, and voice-over artists to produce online learning materials. Reviews and refines content for accuracy, clarity, grammar, and engagement while participating in customer-site photoshoots, industry events, and occasional in-person meetings.

Writes payer-focused market access deliverables, including value dossiers, publications, and reports, using evidence-based medicine, health economics, outcomes research, and public policy principles. Conducts literature searches, evidence reviews, and secondary research across therapy areas. Collaborates with Evidence & Access teams in a fast-paced agency environment, managing multiple projects, deadlines, client needs, and quality standards.

Research, write, validate, and maintain technical procedures, maintenance instructions, operating procedures, circulars, and equipment manuals for rail fleet operations. Interpret engineering documents, ensure compliance with HSE and regulatory standards, optimize maintenance processes, develop KPIs, validate procedures, and prepare recurring operational reports while collaborating with management, suppliers, customers, partners, and unionized maintenance personnel.

Write and edit accessible journalism about AI for a general audience. Responsibilities include pitching ideas, drafting articles, editing researchers’ and writers’ work, setting editorial standards, and helping launch a consistent media program. The founding editor will shape editorial direction and clarify technical material without oversimplifying it.

Create and maintain user-oriented technical documentation for PostgreSQL products, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, user guides, manuals, man pages, help prompts, and release notes. Collaborate with engineering, product, development, QA, and documentation teams in a distributed docs-as-code environment. Use Markdown, version control, diagrams, AI tools, and documentation testing practices while contributing to documentation strategy and potentially open-source projects.

Embedded within product teams, own and drive developer-facing documentation from concept to release. Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers, become a subject-matter expert, improve docs via analytics and feedback, and contribute to docs tooling and standards for Camunda's AI-oriented platform.