CME Group is seeking an innovative and experienced Lead Information Developer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and managing high-quality technical content for CME Group's industry-leading CME Globex platform and its associated trading and risk management services. The ideal candidate will be a leader in content development, excel at guiding content projects from start to finish, and be passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence, to enhance our work. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our technical content and play a key role in helping clients understand and utilize our products and services.
Key Responsibilities:
Content Development and Governance:
Lead the hands-on creation and management of technical content, ensuring all deliverables adhere to established templates, branding guidelines, and workflows to meet client needs.
Develop and maintain a variety of technical materials, including documentation, diagrams, workflows, for primarily external audiences.
End-to-End Video Production:
Manage the entire video production lifecycle for technical content. This includes defining scope with stakeholders, storyboarding concepts, scripting, editing, and securing approvals.
Utilize video creation and editing tools such as Adobe After Effects, Audacity, SnagIt and Google Vids, and provide professional voice-over for final production.
Content Leadership and Stakeholder Collaboration:
Lead the entire content lifecycle, from initial concept to final publication, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Collaborate with business owners, analysts, and subject matter experts to manage project expectations and incorporate feedback.
Innovation & Process Improvement:
Champion the use of the latest Google AI technologies, such as NotebookLM and Gemini, to innovate and improve our content creation and management processes.
Proactively identify opportunities for process efficiencies and enhancements to our services and work output.
Technical Expertise & Mentorship:
Act as a subject matter expert on our products, services, and authoring tools (e.g., Madcap Flare, Bitbucket, Google Vids).
Mentor and guide other team members, promoting best practices in content strategy and development.
Skills and Qualifications:
Required:
Experience: 5+ years of experience in a technical writing or information developer role, demonstrated by a professional portfolio of customer-facing technical content.
Project & Time Management: Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects with overlapping deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Technical Acumen: A demonstrated ability to quickly learn and document complex technical and business concepts.
Authoring Tools: Hands-on experience with modern authoring tools, particularly Madcap Flare or other Content Management Systems (CMS).
Multimedia Production: Hands-on experience with the end-to-end video production process, including storyboarding, scripting, and stakeholder management. Proficiency with editing tools like Adobe After Effects, Audacity, SnagIt and Google Vids, combined with professional voice-over talent is highly desirable
Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a track record of successfully collaborating with cross-functional teams including analysts, developers, and business owners.
Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to testing and validating procedural content against application user interfaces and requirements.
Preferred:
AI & Innovation: A strong interest in and experience using AI tools (e.g., Gemini, NotebookLM, etc) to innovate and improve content workflows.
Collaboration and Tracking Tools: Prior Confluence and JIRA experience.
Industry Knowledge: Experience in the financial exchange, trading technology, or a related FinTech field.
Mentorship: Experience mentoring or providing guidance to other team members.
Additional Notes:
This position is hybrid and requires 3 day in office per week.
Writing samples will be requested from candidates.
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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $93,900-$156,500. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.CME Group: Where Futures are Made
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As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
