Top Writing Jobs in Ottawa

Attend virtual and on-site meetings, produce concise and accurate minutes, and format and finalize meeting documentation. Minute Takers serve clients across industries, with approximately one to two meetings per week. Mandatory self-guided training is provided. The role requires strong writing, critical thinking, attention to detail, Ottawa-area residence, and openness to local or out-of-town travel. Work is flexible and part-time, with no guarantee of full-time or permanent hours.

Develop, edit, maintain, and govern technical documentation for satellite user terminal engineering products. Translate complex engineering information into clear requirements, design, verification, installation, and service documents. Coordinate reviews, stakeholder feedback, version control, configuration management, and requirements traceability. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, suppliers, and subject matter experts while improving documentation standards, workflows, reuse, automation, and content organization.

Develop and maintain technical, task-oriented documentation for Wind River software products. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, subject matter experts, testers, and documentation specialists to create installation, configuration, customization, troubleshooting, tutorial, reference, and developer documentation. Author reusable content in a DITA-based CCMS, align documentation with Agile release cycles, conduct technical reviews, and translate complex software concepts into clear user-focused materials.

Creates customer-focused product documentation, including feature documentation, release notes, and API documentation. Researches complex products, collaborates with subject matter experts, designers, engineers, and product managers, and follows structured authoring standards. Advises other writers, manages projects independently, contributes to content strategy, and uses AI to improve documentation workflows and customer experiences. The role requires strong technical writing, audience analysis, user-centered thinking, DITA/XML knowledge, authoring-tool experience, and version-control familiarity.

Create and optimize SEO-friendly content for blogs, websites, email, social media, and marketing materials; manage editorial calendar; proofread and edit; analyze performance and implement improvements; collaborate with marketing team and promote services with compelling CTAs.

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.

Develop and maintain customer-focused technical documentation across web, embedded, multimedia, and print formats. Gather technical information from subject matter experts, structure content for usability, collaborate with Engineering, UX, Support, Training, and Marketing, and improve documentation workflows. Use MadCap Flare, agile collaboration tools, AI, and modern HTML-first documentation practices to optimize content quality and delivery throughout the product lifecycle.

Owns end-to-end technical documentation portfolios for video security and access control products. Plans, writes, edits, publishes, and maintains user-facing content across web, multimedia, and embedded platforms. Leads documentation strategy for releases and product redesigns, mentors junior writers, improves workflows, manages documentation support issues, and collaborates with development, UX, and technical support teams to deliver user-focused content.

Plan, produce, and govern demand-generation content for enterprise SaaS: write, edit, and adapt assets (including agency- and AI-built content); manage publishing calendar in Adobe Workfront; monitor performance with GA4, SEMRush AIO, and Looker; optimize SEO and discoverability; coordinate cross-channel distribution with campaigns, SEO, social, product marketing, and paid media.

Create monthly investor insights, investment materials, financial planning content, and timely market notes for Wealthsimple clients. Research market developments, synthesize complex investment concepts into clear and engaging writing, exercise editorial judgment, and use AI tools to refine standard content. The role partners with investment and editorial teams while requiring strong financial literacy, investment judgment, curiosity, independence, and familiarity with Canadian wealth management or retail investment products.

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.

The Bid & Proposal Writer develops high-quality bids and proposals for government solicitations, managing responses and improving bid processes.

Lead and manage preparation, review, and administration of architectural specifications. Advise project teams on contract/tendering, mentor junior spec writers, coordinate multi-discipline input, support proposals and business development, and maintain building science and specification standards.

Create and maintain deeply technical, task-oriented documentation for Wind River Linux and eLxr. Work hands-on in Linux environments to validate procedures, author content in DITA and docs-as-code (reStructuredText/Sphinx/Git), integrate upstream open-source content, and collaborate with engineers and global teams to ensure accuracy and readiness for agile releases.

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

Create long-form YouTube content: define strategy, spot trends, generate video ideas, write scripts and titles, collaborate with editors, repurpose content across platforms, upload videos, and aim to grow customers and channel reach.

Produce reproducible technical benchmarks and long-form content by coding tests, running and tracking measurements over time, testing no-code/agent tools, improving docs, and publishing data-backed comparisons that rank and convert. Use AI to accelerate work but verify every claim and provide code and datasets for reproducibility.

The Proposal Writer will manage the proposal lifecycle, analyze funding opportunities, collaborate with teams to gather information, craft compelling narratives, and ensure timely submissions for grants and proposals.

The Bid Writer will develop high-quality bids and proposals, manage sections independently, and collaborate with teams to enhance bid processes and strategies.

Produce original, human‑authored Amharic texts across specified domains following provided prompts. Maintain originality (no AI/translation), attest authorship, adhere to confidentiality, meet deadlines, and complete required onboarding assessments.

Write original, human-authored Oromo texts across subject domains following provided prompts. Maintain originality (no AI/translation), attest authorship, respect confidentiality, and deliver timely submissions as an independent contractor.

Produce original, human-authored Tamil texts across subject domains following provided prompts. Ensure strict originality (no AI/translation/copying), attest to authenticity, maintain confidentiality, meet deadlines and minimum availability, and work independently as a 1099 contractor.