Content Engineer

Type: Full Time

Min. Experience Mid Level

Full-time

Remote, USA

We are looking for content engineers to help make the world smarter with intelligent content.

[A] seeks motivated candidates with experience in some of the following areas. This is a client-facing role and we’re looking for candidates with a mix of content development and enablement experience in some of the following content disciplines:

Content Structure (content modeling, markup, schema, DITA, XML)
Content "Interchange" (metadata, XSLT, XML Processors and Parsers)
Content Operations (CMS / CEM Tools, Content acquisition tools)

This is not a content-development position. It is geared toward creating and supporting content models and tooling around content structure and transformation.

This role is NOT focused on Content Semantics (controlled vocabularies, ontology taxonomy). Having familiarity with Content Semantics is great to have, but the job responsibilities for this role line up much more closely with the principles of content structure, interchange, and operations.

The Content Engineer will work with our practice to craft intelligent content structure for multi-channel marketing and increase the value of semantically rich content. You will participate in, or lead, client projects surrounding customer experience management and personalization.

You’ll define content structure, metadata, content reuse planning, taxonomy, and other content relationships. This includes implementation for authoring experience and for CEM / CMS platforms such as Sitecore, Kentico, SDL Tridion Docs, and Nuxeo.

This is a remote job that can be done from anywhere in North America (we are unable to consider candidates in the states of CA, MA or NY at this time.)

What You’ll Be Doing

Supporting structured authoring through building content models, taxonomies and metadata definitions
Defining XML Schemas and DITA specializations
Configuring and integrating XML components (parsers, XSLT processors, etc) into application environments
Customizing and optimizing authoring experience
Leading client discovery onsite, gathering details and organized data about the current state and desired future state
Educating clients on the value of intelligent content, workflows around Content Engineering, and related topics meant to build a client’s internal resources and capabilities
Bridging the gap for clients between content strategy, the CMS platforms, operations, and other customer experience technologies
Collaborate on information architecture and UX prototyping
Determine schema strategy and structural rules

Skills We Are Looking For

We are looking for somebody who is experienced in some of the following:

Experience creating content using structured authoring systems (XML or other) integrated with a Component Content Management System (CCMS).
Content modeling and Information Architecture
Knowledge of one or more schema definition languages (DTD, XSD, RNG)
Experience with the digital publishing stack including XSLT, XSL-FO, HTML5, CSS, JSON and related JavaScript systems
Familiarity with traditional publishing platforms and methodologies (FrameMaker, InDesign, other layout tools)
Experience with any/all of the following: content management systems (CMS), customer experience management systems (CEM)
Collaborating across distributed teams

Cultural Fit at [A]

You love learning, you love teaching.
You enjoy wearing multiple hats and roles, and titles are not important to you.
You do top-quality work, manage quality, and make everything you touch better.
You are comfortable working under strict confidentiality agreements and often behind-the-scenes.
You are self-organized and manage time and resources well.
You work alone well but communicate well within a team.

[A] is the Content Intelligence Service.

[A] is a distributed, private, professional services firm that provides strategic support for building content intelligence practices into organizations. [A] helps complex organizations establish content engineering standards and practices to compete in a multichannel, multimodal, AI-driven world.

[A] engineers intelligent content systems for CMS/CEM platforms, and offers integration, training, workshops and custom development. [A] helps clients value content as an enterprise asset, and enables future-ready content through use of the Master Content Model.

What’s Your Name, Again?

Our name is easy. Just say “A.” The [A] brackets represent markup, microdata, content intelligence. The letter “[A]” represents the start, initiation, beginning of change. We are going to help change the world with intelligent content.

[A] Team Benefits

Being an [A]gent comes with its benefits. Work from anywhere. Advance your career on the leading-edge of the content and technology sciences. Earn a competitive salary, and for longtime [A]gents, participation in a profit-sharing plan. But many [A]gents find the best part of working as an [A]gent are the other [A]gents you work with and the culture at [A].

We take care of each other and we honor each other's work and contributions to the team. We work to make ourselves better and our [A] team better. We make efforts to adapt new technologies and methodologies that can help us optimize our time, and we expect you to collaborate on these efforts if you’re an expert on any of those fields. We communicate and reach out to other [A] players. We love learning. We love teaching. We write. We code. We support each other. For the right people, working at [A] feels like coming home.

Learn more about [A] at simplea.com.

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[A] is fully distributed across seven time zones, and requires all [A]gents to be available for meetings and collaboration between 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM Central time. Does this work for you?*

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This role utilizes a paid traction project as the final step of the interview process.

[A] utilizes such test, or traction, projects to not only assess skills, but more importantly to assess if there is a mutual cultural fit. This also gives you insight into [A] “behind the scenes” and helps you determine if [A] is the right place for you. Traction projects are also an excellent time to onboard with [A] tools, and learn key concepts that may be new, to see if the systems and the content at [A] all fits your style.

[A] customizes each test project to the individual candidate as well as to client and internal needs at [A]. The work you will be doing on the test project will produce important and valuable deliverables and contains areas that may be involved in your [A] position. As mentioned, this is a paid project meant to be completed in your "free" time.

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