Storytelling Associate, Writing

Overview At Blacksmith, we provide cloud infra to help companies run their CI (GitHub Actions) substantially faster and cheaper. Our mission is to build a CI cloud. Our bet is that CI, as a class of workloads, is ready to be unbundled from the hyperscaler clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure). This is a bold statement, and we have an ambitious roadmap ahead.

Some things we're proud of

• We orchestrate millions of VMs for CI jobs each month over our own fleet of bare metal hardware.

• We power CI for 600+ fast-growing startups like Ashby, Slope, AtoB, Pylon, Superblocks, and Finch.

• Founders: Aditya Maru and Aayush Shah were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs. Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash worked on search infra and was later a founding member of the ads team at Faire.

• We went through Y Combinator's W24 batch and raised our seed round from a Tier 1 VC firm.

• We're growing extremely fast and hit $1m ARR with a team of 4 in less than 12 months.

The role

Storytelling is 50% writing, 50% visuals. In the gaming world, a narrative designer is the master storyteller. They shape the player's experience, creating stories, characters, and plot lines that immerse players in the game's universe.

This role is looking for someone to bring the same approach to all points of our written communication and help our leads, prospects, and customers immerse themselves in  our universe.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit original content across multiple formats: 

  • Customer stories 

  • Product documentation 

  • SEO-optimized technical guides and tutorials

  • Email marketing campaigns

  • Social media content

  • GitHub READMEs

  • Press Releases

• Track content performance and define experiments for growth 

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience writing better than ChatGPT in a content, journalism, editorial, or other writing role in tech or media

• Strong, radically original opinions about what makes a piece of writing great and easy to understand

• Dissatisfied with the status quo of storytelling in tech

• Like writing a bit tongue in cheek with some edge (a.k.a. not boring corporate)

• Genuine curiosity about cloud computing and startups

• You care about every comma, em-dash, and word format for each distribution channel

• Bias for action, high performance, and comfort owning projects from the first draft to the final post

• Thrive in an in-person environment in SF, 5 days a week.

Bonus (but not required)

• Experience working at a startup

• Experience with content marketing analytics

• Ability to communicate ideas visually, especially when integrated with written formats

• Active on social media (e.g., X and LinkedIn)

Compensation and benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.

• Competitive base + equity.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Quarterly offsite.

• Early-exercise stock options

• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)