Staff Technical Writer

About the Role

Join Webflow as a Staff Technical Writer to elevate our developer documentation, making it a strategic advantage and owning the portal that empowers our Website Experience Platform ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own Webflow’s end-to-end developer documentation and information architecture for developers.webflow.com, serving as the lead for docs quality, structure, and consistency.
• Plan, write, and edit API references, guides, "getting started" tutorials, and runnable examples alongside our developer platform team’s releases.
• Define the developer documentation style guide and play a key contributor role in creating our API standards.
• Partner early with Product and Engineering to guide standards and ensure consistency across the platform.
• Innovate in docs delivery and guiding content that improves time-to-first-success and our ease of finding answers.
• Represent Webflow’s documentation practice externally (talks, posts) and steward a healthy internal/external contribution model.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Expert technical communicator for developer audiences, with a track record of shipping complex API documentation end-to-end.
• 6+ years of experience documenting multi-language developer API platforms, with at least 2 years of experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, or other JS superset documentation.
• 3+ years managing developer portals with a focus on developer growth metrics.
• Familiarity with OpenAPI schema and API design best practices.
• Deep understanding of web frameworks like React, Next.js, and Astro, with proficiency in building simple web apps in those frameworks.
• Native-level fluency to read, write, and speak in English.

Nice-to-Haves

• Passion for self-guided education, viewing documentation as the highest-leverage developer enablement tool.
• Enjoy being part of the product development lifecycle and guiding the shape of products.
• Proactive in gathering and synthesizing insights, and a self-starter in putting those insights into action.
• Energized by solving problems and eager to share solutions with the world.
• Curious and open to growth, actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact.