Team Overview

Anduril’s Deployments team is a cross-functional group that partners with every business line and supports all products that Anduril builds. Our responsibilities include product operations, training and adoption, along with user documentation and several other functions. We are seeking an experienced technical writer to build and maintain user documentation for our Maritime products. We believe that the quality of our documentation should reflect the quality of our products, which are world-class.

Role Specifics

As a technical writer, your mission is to partner with our Maritime Product and Operations teams to deliver accurate, updated, and easy-to-understand documentation on how to use Anduril products. You will do whatever it takes to organize our engineering and program delivery functions in this mission. In this role, you will work closely with Engineering, Operations, and various subject matter experts to understand our products, identify user workflows, and use documentation to close the gap. As such, the Technical Writer will play a foundational role in setting the bar for tone, voice, and quality across our written artifacts.

With Anduril’s focus on defense and national security, user documentation plays a critical role in ensuring front-line operators know how to leverage the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Your mission is to make the process of learning how to operate systems as easy and seamless as possible, with exceptionally written and presented artifacts.

You will identify relevant stakeholders and lead them through a documentation roadmap with established key milestones and targets. This will require an in-depth understanding of what teams are relevant to documentation, and what an organized effort toward collaboration, entails. You are to ensure that stakeholders are engaged at the right time, and you will guide them towards a finished user-facing document that plainly meets customer needs. Finally, you will work with our account teams to ensure that contract deliverables are accurate, on-time, and in the right format.

Written content artifacts under this charter may include things like: technical manuals, operational manuals, maintenance manuals, procedures, checklists, templates, user guides, troubleshooting guides, and release notes. You will partner with account, product, and engineering teams across all phases of product development to ensure users have the right documentation available.

What you’ll do

• Generate, review, and edit documentation that is user-focused. Work with Engineering and Operations to deliver task, conditions, standard-centric documentation
• Research Anduril products and scope Tech Data deliverables for Programs of Record with DOD customers, and write Data Modules in S1000d xml, using Rapid Author.
• Evaluate and prioritize tasks required to successfully support product documentation efforts and keep them on track. Help drive the best decision for the company by using a data-driven approach and consider input from stakeholders to ensure well-informed decisions. You should be prepared to fill gaps that represent risks to the documentation roadmap
• Communicate and help manage expectations. Ensure risks are noted with adequate time, mitigations are identified, and resources are allocated
• Help build a culture of technical documentation by creating process and training for others to contribute content. Refine our product maturity framework so that documentation is a meaningful step towards productization of new systems.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of demonstrated excellence generating XML-based technical documentation, preferably in a DOD space (preferably Navy)
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering documentation
• Experience building structured content in XML in a tool such as Xmetal
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects
• Must thrive with autonomy and responsibility, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines. Impeccable project-management skills
• Passion for excellent documentation and user experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a NV2 Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Military exposure and experience, particularly with military technical documentation writing and formatting standards, guidelines, and verbiage (S1000d, Mil-Std-40051, etc)
• Previous experience creating technical documentation for Naval products (for DoD)
• Experience Documenting Software UIs in an Agile Environment.

WE MAKE CARRY GOODS, AND WE TELL STORIES. LOTS OF THEM.

For over 15 years, video storytelling has been a signature of the Bellroy brand. From handcrafted stop-motions to day-in-the-life carry portraits, we’ve achieved this without big budgets, sprawling sets or lengthy client back-and-forth. Just a genuine appetite for good ideas. And the will to painstakingly make them happen, one frame after the next.

Now we’re seeking a Senior Video Editor to join Bellroy’s Creative team! We're looking for someone who can continue to push our creative boundaries and tell stories with soul, spark, and genuine visual impact. Working alongside a passionate team of writers, art directors, designers, photographers and producers to showcase the Bellroy brand to millions of eyes across the world.

You’ll take the reins on our video production across a variety of formats, from polished television commercials to short films to scroll-stopping social reels. You'll lead editing, grading, sound and motion while also supporting shooting and directing when it makes sense.

YOU COULD BE THE ONE IF…

You're an experienced Video Editor proficient at weaving together stories that get attention – from human-led moments to cinematic campaigns to technical product deep dives. 

You’re more than just a technician. You bring a perspective on storytelling and how to make your audience feel something. Whether that’s a useful insight, belly laugh or healthy dose of inspiration go see the world.

You’re a post production Ninja. Adept at switching between long and short form edits, colour grading, sound mixing and mastering, motion design and outputting for multiple platforms.

You crave being part of a broader team; working with writers on ad scripts, designers on motion titles, or photographers to sync on a colour treatment. At the same time, you have DOP’s on speed dial and a broad network of freelance collaborators to plug into when needed.

You bring originality, you question the formula and you're not here to play it safe. Optimistic. Resourceful. Compelling. Creative to your core. And you’re keeping a close eye on what’s next (including how AI is shaping creative work).

THERE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU’D NEED TO HAVE…

• 5+ years experience in a senior video production role (agency, studio or in-house)
• Pro-level skills in editing (Premiere, Da Vinci or Resolve), colour grading, sound and motion (After Effects)
• A strong storytelling perspective. Your happy place is sitting in an editing suite with a writer, getting to the best bits of an interview or telling a travel story that takes the audience on a journey
• Experience in advertising, and how to create videos that get attention (and clicks) – whether that’s a 6sec bumper or 30sec TVC
• An appreciation of product design (or a similar space) that you like to go deep and geek out on. Unpacking how even the most seemingly mundane of things can peek interest if shared in interesting ways
• A clear perspective on how AI can elevate or streamline your work
• A collaborative spirit. You're a team player, not a solo act
• The ability to prioritise your own work, meeting project timelines and raising your hand when a task looks like it’s hitting a roadblock
• Optimism, curiosity and a can-do attitude that turns roadblocks into creative challenges.

IF YOU WERE HERE LAST MONTH, YOU MIGHT HAVE...

• Created a series of TVCs for an upcoming travel campaign. Helping shape the idea through from brainstorm to storyboard to the editing suite
• Collaborated with the Social Team on a snappy reel, playing with fun ways to hook someone in those first few seconds
• Directed a short film that goes behind-the-scenes of Bellroy HQ and how we think about design. Editing a 3min video for YouTube that then gets broken into smaller 15sec clips for social
• Put yourself in our customers shoes and to help them better understand our latest carry-on luggage. Creating an educational video showing how it can be packed, wheeled and repaired in a concise edit that’s optimised for e-commerce
• Co-piloted the strategy for Bellroy's YouTube channel, encompassing diverse content like designer deep dives, interviews, travel docos and how-to videos
• Experimented with a new AI VFX tool, demo’ing it back to the broader team thinking about ways to apply it
• Sat in a Writer’s Room session to generate weird and wacky ad scripts. Or brainstormed countless episodic ideas for Instagram or Tik Tok.

LOCATION AND HOURS

This role is full-time and based in our Melbourne studio (Collingwood), with hybrid flexibility. We shoot both in and out of the studio – some travel may be part of the fun.

NEXT STEPS

Send us your portfolio, CV, and a cover letter outlining why this role caught your eye. We don’t just want to see what you’ve done – but also get a sense of how you think; and where you want to take your career next.