Content Lead

Location: London; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is building a technology platform that connects ambitious software engineers with companies and helps people understand their strengths, interests, and abilities.

What you will do

• Own the publishing calendar and output across the website, social channels, email, blog, and events programme.
• Write and edit LinkedIn and X posts, campaign and event emails, landing pages, product and lifecycle copy, event materials, articles, and explainers.
• Plan content distribution across search, Hacker News, LinkedIn, newsletters, communities, and other trusted audience channels.
• Write to hirify.global's GEO and SEO specification, improve content structure and internal linking, and support author entity pages.
• Track and report performance across the owned blog and organic social channels, connecting content to commercial outcomes.
• Use AI for research, outlining, drafting, repurposing, and quality checks while maintaining hirify.global's tone of voice.

Requirements

• 4+ years of writing experience in-house or at an agency, ideally for a technical or developer audience and ideally in a startup.
• A portfolio demonstrating range across content formats and lengths.
• Practical understanding of content distribution and how audiences discover, consume, and share content.
• Working knowledge of SEO and AI search, including the ability to write to a specification and challenge it.
• Fluency with AI tools for research, outlining, and iteration, with sound editorial judgment about their use.
• Commercial literacy, including the ability to connect content to outcomes beyond vanity metrics.
• Strong editorial judgment, proactive communication, independence, and the ability to improve an initial brief.

Nice to have

• Technical background, formal or self-taught.
• Experience running a newsletter, blog, or publication.
• Experience marketing to engineers, developers, or other audiences that reject superficial content.
• Experience creating content for events and communities.
• Basic design or motion skills for producing social assets.

Culture & Benefits

• High autonomy with very little bureaucracy; the role executes an existing strategy while influencing it.
• Above-market salary and significant equity.
• Private healthcare and dental cover, fertility benefits, and enhanced parental support.
• Gym membership, wellness benefits, regular socials, offsites, and an annual trip.
• MacBook Pro, team equipment, Claude tokens, and a flexible approach to tools and support.

Hiring process

• Candidates are encouraged to experiment with the hirify.global agent and share their feedback.
• The process includes a 30-minute video call with the Internal Talent Lead, followed by a Hiring Manager call.
• Most roles include an offline practical task, followed by an onsite interview loop at the office with the team and Founder.