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)