Technical Writer
About The Position
The Technical Writer will create dynamic videos that present client products effectively and explain technical processes to a general audience. The role involves translating scripts, outlines, and technical source material such as user manuals into shooting scripts, clear voiceover, and on-screen text, while coordinating voiceover, graphics, and imagery to communicate information efficiently and engagingly. The position requires hands-on video production and editing expertise, including camera operation, lighting, animation of existing vector imagery, and advanced Adobe Premiere and After Effects workflows. The candidate will work on multiple projects in a corporate environment, communicate professionally, provide project updates, identify risks and roadblocks proactively, and meet deadlines. This is a 12-month contract role based onsite in Plano, Texas.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in film, video, or animation, or equivalent professional experience of 3–5 years.
- Understanding of consumer electronics and home appliances, including common product features, terminology, and customer use cases.
- Expert-level proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Premiere and After Effects.
- Familiarity with manipulating and animating existing vector imagery.
- Advanced camera operation knowledge, including fluency with FS7/Sony camcorders and Canon DSLRs.
- Deep understanding of exposure, frame rate, and resolution, including 1080p and 4K.
- Ability to white balance properly and troubleshoot LED-screen issues such as moiré and refresh scan lines.
- Basic understanding of lighting principles for technology and human subjects in interviews.
- Ability to safely work with Kino Flo and ARRI lighting and common grip equipment such as C-stands, apple boxes, and sandbags.
- Advanced video editing knowledge, including workflows between After Effects and Premiere, Dynamic Link, round-trip workflows, and template creation.
- Understanding of 4K workflows, proxies, Lumetri color correction, secondary color correction, corner pinning, lens-distortion correction, and non-destructive workflows.
- Familiarity with audio best practices, including compression, limiting, and mixing through Premiere's Audio Track Mixer.
- Knowledge of Media Encoder exports, including codecs, bitrates, and advanced settings.
- Ability to rework technical material into clear, explanatory content for nontechnical audiences.
- Ability to manage time across multiple projects, provide updates, raise risks and roadblocks, ask questions when needed, and meet deadlines.
- Comfort communicating through office email and following common corporate communications etiquette.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Experience creating After Effects templates for use in Premiere.
- Experience creating Adobe library templates.
- Corporate-environment experience.
Responsibilities
- Translate scripts or outlines into shooting scripts for dynamic videos that present client products effectively.
- Rewrite technical language, such as user manuals, into clear voiceover and text for a general audience.
- Coordinate voiceover, text, graphics, and imagery to deliver information efficiently and engagingly.
- Manipulate and animate existing vector imagery, including diagrams or product-manual renderings, for use in live-action or animated video elements.
- Operate cameras and lighting equipment and apply video production and editing best practices.
- Work across multiple projects, provide updates, identify roadblocks and risks proactively, and meet deadlines.
- Communicate professionally in a corporate environment and drive conversations to obtain needed information.
