Job Title

Technical Writer

Job Description

In a highly collaborative setting, as the Technical Writer, you create customer-facing product documentation for Philips Patient Monitoring systems.

Your role:

• Developing clinical user and/or installation and service documentation for patient monitoring products, along with preparing documentation plans from engineering documentation, field requirements and/or customer requirements.
• Participating with cross functional teams to represent documentation status and deliverables, while providing input to program schedules and milestones.
• Adhering to Philips templates and processes to ensure quality and consistency of deliverables.
• Working with external vendors (e.g. Translation, Printer) through the documentation development lifecycle.
• Identifying areas of improvement in our processes and products and implementing them within the team as appropriate. As well as implementing guidelines and/or requirements of appropriate standards.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 5+ years of experience in a documentation environment, with a focus on technical writing. Experience within a regulated industry – preferred.
• Your skills include strong knowledge and usage of tools such as: AuthorIt, FrameMaker, Schema ST4 and/or Adobe InDesign.
• You have a bachelor’s degree, ideally in technical writing, or equivalent experience.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
• You’re an excellent communicator, both written and verbal, and have the ability to be highly collaborative.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.
• Read more about our employee benefits.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Cambridge, MA.

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.