Jetzt als Working Student - Technical Writer bei Taktile GmbH durchstarten – Standort Berlin

Taktile exists to create value for organizations through smarter and safer decisions at scale. Our software helps customers in the financial services industry automate, test, and improve their most critical decision logic using a powerful low-code editor. To date, it is used to make over 500’000 critical business decisions every day.

• Taktile is based in Berlin and New York City.

• Taktile was founded by machine learning and data science veterans with extensive experience building and running production ML in financial services.

• Our team consists of engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers with a diverse set of backgrounds. Some of us attended top universities such as Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford and some of us have no degree at all.

• Our team has accumulated extensive work experience at leading tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Meta, startups, and the enterprise software sphere.

• Our backers include Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Tiger Global and stellar angels such as the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog, and UiPath.

Our everyday users are financial services professionals with a variety of backgrounds including Heads of Risk and Lending, Financial Analysts, and Software Engineers. We believe that great documentation is essential for making sure they all get the most out of our product.

That's where you come in.

About the role

We are looking for curious and passionate individuals with a STEM major who have an interest in gaining experience as a Technical Writer alongside their studies. You will help us produce best-in-class documentation and tutorials to guide our users. In doing so, you will work closely with the Product and Design team to stay on top of the latest feature developments and with the Customer Success team to understand our users’ pain points and how we might better assist them. Please note that fluency in English is a requirement for this role.

We are currently looking for a time investment of about 8-16 hours / week.

• Maintain and grow our existing documentation

  • Keep our technical documentation up to date by updating copy and screenshots

  • Make improvements based on user feedback and maintain our integrated FAQs

  • Work with our product teams to create documentation for new features

• Help create new guides and tutorials

  • Work with our Customer Success team to create onboarding materials based on realistic use cases

  • Help explain technical concepts such as API integrations and data processing to a smart and motivated user base

• Improve the interplay between app and documentation

  • Become a user and champion of the Taktile platform and help our Product and Design teams better integrate documentation in the application

  • Support us in the development of interactive product tours and on-platform guides

• You are an excellent writer and communicator

• You have professional experience writing technical documentation

• You are familiar with python or a similar scripting or programming language

• You know basic computer science concepts such as REST APIs, JSON, and databases

• You have worked with a workflow tool such as Zapier or make.com, a GUI builder like retool or superblocks, and/or an analytics/BI tool such as Looker or Tableau

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here.

• Get to know an exciting and modern technical product with an impressive user base.

• Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company - our docs are a big part of our users’ experience.

• Experience a truly flat hierarchy. Interact with and learn directly from founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas