We are hiring our first Head of Developer Documentation to spearhead our documentation team. This role is critical in developing, writing, and maintaining comprehensive and accessible documentation for our diverse user base. As well as establishing productive processes and collaborations with the product and marketing team.
Who are we?
Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content platform that replaces rigid legacy content management systems so companies like PUMA, Spotify, Figma, Riot Games, and Skims can create amazingdigital experiences for their customers.
One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.
Backed by Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku's ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital, Sanity is at the epicenter of the modern digital product development stack.
You can only build a great company with a great culture. Read about our values and join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.
About the Role
Sanity is the leading platform in the CMS space and is known for its outstanding developer experience. An essential part of gaining that reputation has been great developer documentation. Now, we want to invest in improving our documentation further and are therefore looking for our first Head of Developer Documentation to spearhead our documentation team. This role is critical in developing, writing, and maintaining comprehensive and accessible documentation for our diverse user base. As well as establishing productive processes and collaboration with the Product and Marketing team.
Success in this role is leading a team that produces great documentation that enables and empowers developers to bring value to their teams and end-users. It's establishing great collaboration with product and engineering teams and creating high quality through repeatable processes. As our first Head of Documentation, you should be prepared to be hands-on in content production as well. You will be working with teams and for a company that values documentation and sees it as a strategic part of how we grow as a platform and a business. Being a content platform, you will also be using Sanity to document the platform itself - staying close to the product. You will also use modern project management tools, such as Linear, to organize and delegate work.
What you will be doing