Project Writer

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Welcome to Next Work, the company changing the way the world learns.

More than 220,000 people across 190 countries use Next Work to learn AI by building. They work with the newest tools, create projects that prove what they can do and build a portfolio as they learn.

As our first dedicated Project Writer, you’ll own the experience at the heart of Next Work: the projects people use to learn.

Your job is to uphold a learning experience that’s technically accurate, easy to follow, exciting to complete, and rewarding to showcase. The standard is simple - every learner should finish every project thinking, “That was the best possible way I could have learned that skill.”

We’re a close-knit team in Austin that values collaboration, transparency and low ego. You’ll work across writing, product and engineering to set the standard for what a great project looks like, then help our AI project generator meet that standard at scale.

• Write incredible hands-on projects that help learners build with AI tools.
• Research new tools, models and workflows, build with them yourself, then work out the clearest way to teach them.
• Own every part of the project experience, including the project instructions, explanations, screenshots, diagrams, code blocks, quizzes, tasks and troubleshooting help.
• Test every project vigorously from start to finish. Find the broken commands, missing context and confusing moments before a learner does.
• Own the prompts, examples and evaluations that shape the quality of our AI project generator.
• Study where learners stop, struggle or lose momentum. Work directly with product and engineering to remove those dropoff points.
• Keep projects up to date as models are deprecated, interfaces change and tools update. Your projects must remain trustworthy in a field that evolves every day.
• Record project walkthroughs and become a visible part of the Next Work learner community.
• Check out our Project Writer's challenge for a feel of what the role will be about!
• Are a great writer. You can make a difficult technical idea feel clear without making it shallow.
• Care deeply about how people learn, not just whether the information is technically correct.
• Love learning new technical things yourself and believe that almost anything can be taught with the right guide.
• Follow AI closely because you’re excited by what people can now build, not just because keeping up with trends is part of your job.
• Use AI tools naturally in your writing and research workflow without outsourcing your judgment to them.
• Notice the fine details that change a learning experience… like a screenshot in the wrong place, an unexplained command, a misleading diagram, a long paragraph that interrupts the flow of the project.
• Are comfortable moving between writing, research, testing, product thinking and technical problem-solving.
• Want to set the standard for how Next Work teaches, then build the systems that help the rest of the platform reach that standard.
• Are comfortable on camera and excited to speak directly with learners.
• Have strong opinions, hold them lightly and move fast when the facts change.

• Want to work remotely. The team works in person in Austin, 5-6 days a week.
• Think technical writing starts after someone else has already worked out how to use the tool, the structure and the answer.
• Want to release projects built from technical docs, articles, or a subject-matter expert’s post without building or testing the project yourself.
• Measure success by how much content gets published rather than what learners become capable of doing.
• Aren’t comfortable debugging technical problems or working closely with engineers.
• See AI as a shortcut to produce more words, rather…