Content Developer Job Description
Content developer
provides strategic and technical leadership for the definition and documentation of XML schemas for Cengage content in support of authoring, development, production, management, and delivery of this content to product platforms, systems and applications.
Content Developer Duties & Responsibilities
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Update PowerPoint decks and facilitator guides for Instructor-lead Training as needed
Drive business results by identifying opportunities to enhance/strengthen marketing materials and messaging
Improving the presentation creation process marrying template and customized approaches to gain efficiencies
Act as the subject matter expert with internal groups and on global projects
Review materials and communications for regulatory compliance
Coordinate routing of material to required reviewers
Manage and develop author and vendor talent
Collaborate with authors to shape manuscript
Manage editorial processes to optimize production for quality, predictability, time, and cost
Manage title development schedules, budgets, contracts, files, reports, risks, and project-team communication and collaboration for assigned projects
Content Developer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Content Developer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: VCIX, MOS, CPLP, ASTD, FAA, NV, CCIE, NCATT, A&P, CMA
Education for Content Developer
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Employers hiring for the content developer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Communications, Technical, English, Education, Computer Science, Journalism, Design, Writing, Business, Communication
Skills for Content Developer
Desired skills for content developer include:
HTML
XML
CSS
JavaScript
PowerPoint
Captivate
Learning Management Systems
Word
Articulate Storyline
Basic computer applications
Desired experience for content developer includes:
5+ years’ industry experience with relational or non-relational data solutions, including scripting or coding for automation at scale
5+ years industry experience working and playing with technology – could be enterprise automation (scripting or coding solutions at scale), administration (production-level enterprise implementations), maintenance or solution troubleshooting, development or SDET
Approach problems with creative solutions, take calculated risks, demonstrate innovative thinking, listen to customers, and deliver the right content at the right time
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Good interpersonal communication and cross-functional relationship building skills are needed
Basic understanding of related technologies
Content Developer Examples
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Content Developer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a content developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for content developer
- Structuring software and deployment architectures for scalability, reliability and daily production deployments
- Patterns of internal software architecture that encourage performant execution on modern JVMs
- Creating and maintaining developer-friendly HTTP-based APIs
- Agile values and practices (including Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Current choices for data storage systems and architectures, and the trade-offs inherent in them
- Benefits and drawbacks of using wide ranging application development frameworks
- Interpret customer data and develop content plans and strategy
- Understand and evangelize our content model, content types, and brand voice
- Writing pieces for the weekly Insights series
- Writing shorter-form agricultural analysis pieces
Qualifications for content developer
- Proven ability to effectively partner with senior leadership, interpreting business and technical strategy, and then delivering content and an information experience to increase customer satisfaction product usage and adoption
- Proficient in at least one graphics program and able to develop meaningful graphics
- Ability to apply course development standards, templates, and style sheets
- Follow the corporate style guide, Technical Publishing Guide, Chicago Manual of Style, and department format guidelines
- Demonstrated experience in developing and managing to project schedules on both an individual and team basis
- A Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or other related technical field
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of content developer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for content developer
- Keeping abreast of industry-related news
- Working with the marketing team on content strategy
- Creating and maintaining and editorial calendar
- Ad-hoc communications tasks
- Identify opportunities to improve content performance and usability, content development processes and tools
- Maintain, distribute, and implement a content plan/editorial calendar across multiple releases
- Dive deep into Virtustream technologies (xStream, Viewtrust, IaaS, Storage Cloud) to understand the services and use your creativity to come up with training materials for our both internal (Solution Architects, Managed Services) and external customers
- Be an effective verbal and written communicator, including the ability to communicate digital publishing production terminology in plain English to non-technical stakeholders
- Be an analytical thinker
- Be happy to work collaboratively independently
Qualifications for content developer
- Established expertise in creating and evolving processes and then driving changes to increase efficiency and improve quality
- Natural and inquisitive passion for modern technology
- Experience writing or directing for entertainment purposes (playwriting/screenwriting, joke writing, narrative design, exhibition/museum design, ) a plus
- 5+ years of experience as a writer or editor of educational or training content
- Write and publish engaging content and create experiences that make deploying and supporting Office 365 products intuitive, and facilitate and support product adoption customer productivity and satisfaction
- Deploying distributed systems on a GNU/Linux platform
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a content developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for content developer
- Evaluates quality and effectiveness of current products, including benchmarking against key competitors
- Assists the Product Manager in identifying and evaluating author and subject matter experts
- Coordinates authors' and subject matter experts’ responsibilities for preparation of both print and digital content
- Ensures that content development follows accepted processes and standards
- Works with team to conceptualize and develop plans for media products, including business requirements, schedules, and budgets
- Developing investment stories and product content for the Alternatives & Solutions investment platforms that connect products and capabilities with client needs
- Working with Portfolio and Distribution Teams to craft new or tailor existing stories in a way that resonates with client challenges and opportunities
- Creating stories and visual concepts that will help investors more easily grasp complex concepts and motivate them to choose the company as their strategic partner
- Evaluate the internal and external knowledgebases to ensure content is current and accurate
- Develop investment stories and product content for the Alternatives and Solutions investment platforms that connect products and capabilities with client needs
Qualifications for content developer
- Continuous integration, deployment and delivery
- Unix system configuration management tools
- Test Driven Development or Behaviour Driven Development
- Pragmatism and an appreciation for simplicity
- A great sense of humour and attitude
- Experience with developing Content Management tools is highly desirable
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a content developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for content developer
- Create stories and visual concepts that will help investors easily grasp complex concepts
- Collaborate with Alternatives and Solutions Sales and Investment Professionals on presentations for speaking engagements and roadshows
- Determining the structure of the content
- Research and model application behaviors and develop APP ID
- Research and provide defense mechanism against popular protocol, firewall or APP ID evasions
- Research protocols and develop protocol decoder
- Research common file types and do identification, blocking and DLP
- Create process documents using E-comm systems (Zendesk, Digital River, etc…)
- Create New Hire and Ongoing training materials
- Work with internal and external teams to identify gaps in training and agent documentation
Qualifications for content developer
- Proficient coding with jQuery
- Proficient coding Mobile and Responsive contents
- Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker
- Write and publish engaging content and create experiences that make using Office products intuitive, and facilitate and support product adoption customer productivity and satisfaction
- Track record of delivering highly creative experiences on tight deadlines
- Experience writing or directing for entertainment purposes (playwriting/screenwriting, joke writing, narrative design, exhibition/museum design, creative/fiction writing)
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a content developer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for content developer
- Evaluate the impact of your content
- Tag clouds, Sandbox solutions, Dashboards, blogs, Lists [normalized], analytics, managed metadata
- Manage the commissioning process, agreeing content, budget, and deadlines with authors
- Prepare strategic summaries of practice areas to feed into business cases for new products and enhancements
- Contribute to the budgeting and re-forecasting process and own and manage publications
- Accurately report on contingency and risk for the re-forecasting and budget process
- Develop and maintain relationships with existing and potential authors to enable smooth commissioning of work in the future
- Develop and maintain strong and supportive relationships with authors and internal stakeholders so as to develop a network to feed into strategic work and to ensure future plans align with other teams
- Practice growth mindset
- At times, write code samples and automation scripts
Qualifications for content developer
- Portfolio review of writing and content samples
- BA/BS degree in Journalism, English, Communications, Creative Writing, Theatre, or other literary/communication subject
- Experience in customer research
- Experience with instructional video and visuals
- Ability to represent content strategy as an integral part of iterative product development
- Take an active role (in conjunction with the Line Manager and the local Division team for Korea) in planning the different projects for the market