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Our offices in India opened in Bengaluru in 2018. Since then, our team has fueled growth and innovation across the organization, impacting students worldwide. We are eager to grow and expand with skilled professionals like you who use their talent to build solutions, enable effective learning, and improve students\xe2\x80\x99 lives.

The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.

The Principal - Digital Production Specialist supports authors, editors, and production editors with content creation in HTML and DITA-authoring tools.
The Principal - Digital Production Specialist is responsible for building, reviewing, editing, and creating relevant and quality content for all product lines in a DITA XML structure.

The position will work with business partners internally to ensure offerings are following processes and procedures to go through production efficiently to display in print and on multiple user-interface digital platforms.
The Principal - Digital Production Specialist will also assist with continually meeting and delivering the company\xe2\x80\x99s high standard of quality for content-driven publications and products by pre-determined timelines.

Primary/Key Responsibilities

• Proactively troubleshoot and validate issues arising in XML and transforms.
• Proactively troubleshoot and validate issues arising while loading transform in LMS.
• Able to run Typefi for print offerings and generate InDesign files and assist production editors and Content team with queries.
• Convert and update content from Word documents and PDFs into DITA XML based on product line and product type.
• Code elements in the platform, such as bold and italics, numbered and bulleted lists, etc., so the end result will appear on the LMS as intended using internal DITA XML to match source documentation.
• Conduct QA to ensure quality of product deliverable matches the information from source document.
• Use LEAN principles on a daily basis to generate, evaluate, and experiment with process improvement ideas.
• Establish individual goals and contribute to team goals while embracing change.
• Work closely with content partners to ask and answer questions pertaining to relevant course material.
• Be a team player prepared to communicate project status and work with other teams and team members to meet tight deadlines.
• Answer business inquiries on deliverable content-related topics.
• Work closely with content partners to ask and answer questions pertaining to relevant course material.
• Hybrid Schedule: 3 days remote / 2 days in office
• 30-day notification period preferred

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science or similar.
• 2 years of experience in technical roles working with XML and HTML.
• Digital publishing background with direct experience developing to current EPUB specs.
• Experience with Agile best practices.
• Familiarity with Content Management and version control systems.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, creative, organized, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven.
• Desire to learn, adapt and grow, and embrace new technologies to accommodate team/process needs.
• Must have a strong attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience with Oxygen XML Author software

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Location Bangalore, KA, India

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Employee Type Employee

Job Functional Area Content/Material Creation

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