Description
Title: Product Specialist
Type: Contract
Location: Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Our client is seeking a Product Specialist for a fast-paced role to partner with their Product and Engineering teams. You will work to enhance the online shopping experience by performing in-depth research, analysing product specification data, and using highly technical internal tools and processes to manage and enhance a large repository of knowledge about products.
Client Description:
Take this opportunity to consider joining one of the world's most successful organizations! They focus on innovation and smart business practices, and as they continue to grow, they are committed to retaining a small-company feel.
Responsibilities:
- Quickly learn and build expertise in new processes and technical applications, including proprietary, simplified programming and configuration languages.
- Build expertise on a wide variety of products through thorough research and analysis of data from multiple channels.
- Identify and correct problems in the knowledge repository, and use a variety of configuration tools to improve the presentation of product data.
- Use editorial skills to organize information, write, and publish high-quality online content, according to requirements regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
- Edit, standardize, and suggest changes to materials prepared by others.
- Manage time effectively and adapt to frequently changing processes and requirements.
Requirements:
- A Bachelor's degree preferred with a strong academic record. Master's degree a plus.
- Background in Computer Science or Programming a plus.
- Relevant degree or 2-3 years of relevant experience, such as technical writing, product documentation, information management, or market research.
- Strong computer and Internet skills and natural comfort with technology.
- Ability to learn technical processes quickly and thoroughly.
- Intellectual curiosity, along with excellent research, fact-finding, analytical, and independent problem solving skills.
- Strong written communication skills with experience and a keen editorial sense for creating high quality, customer-facing materials.
- Action-oriented, efficient, highly organized, and detail-oriented with demonstrated ability to drive multiple projects to completion and deliver high-quality results on tight deadlines with minimum guidance.
- Adaptable, flexible, and capable of working both independently and with teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience with online shopping.
For immediate consideration please contact Tim Pape.
Synergis is a woman-owned company that serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years.
Synergis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.