Principal Technical Writer

Job Description:

• Remove obstacles to self-implementation and self-support for complex customer businesses by designing and writing cross-cutting enablement documentation.
• Write for enterprise customer technical leadership and support teams, producing implementation guides, architecture overviews, integration patterns, and best practices.
• Use research, interviews, and collaboration with Toast customer-facing teams to understand business objectives, pain points, and implementation barriers.
• Build and implement AI documentation generation infrastructure, establish evaluation frameworks to verify content quality, and advocate for AI tool adoption to accelerate discovery and shape how we document at scale.
• Collaborate as a strategic leader in developing documentation practice, focused on business enablement writing and AI-driven product documentation infrastructure.
• Cover multiple product functionality areas as a domain expert, using AI tooling for routine documentation updates and focusing your writing on strategic enablement content.
• Partner with peer product development leaders to incorporate documentation requirements into product development planning from the start.
• Test complex technical features, write and validate code examples, and advocate for enterprise developer experience.
• Measure and communicate documentation impact on enterprise customer implementation time, support ticket volume, and adoption metrics.
• Mentor technical writers in adopting AI tools, balancing strategic thinking with execution, and establishing documentation quality standards.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of technical writing experience for enterprise products, with demonstrated ownership of major documentation domains or platforms.
• Deep expertise in developer documentation: REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, authentication protocols, integration patterns, webhooks, data models.
• Experience writing for technical decision-makers (engineering leaders, CTOs, enterprise architects) and complex implementation scenarios.
• Proven ability to design cross-cutting documentation strategies that solve problems affecting multiple audiences (developers, integrators, support teams, customers), with effective management of ambiguity in problem definition.
• Hands-on experience with AI documentation tools or demonstrated ability to evaluate AI-generated content for accuracy, completeness, and usefulness.
• Strong technical fluency: comfortable testing APIs, writing code examples, understanding system architecture, and partnering with engineering teams as a technical peer.
• Demonstrated expertise in information architecture for complex product ecosystems—designing maintainable documentation structures.
• Strong systems thinking: ability to balance short-term documentation delivery with long-term architectural integrity and scalability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence product development teams to include product information and communication as part of the definition of done.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities

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