Aviator is hiring: Developer Content Manager in San Francisco
Aviator, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94199
About us
One of the largest trends that has happened in the last few decades is how people work. Although in software world remote work has been done for several years, never has the tooling been built from ground up for software engineers. We are building the engineering productivity supertools for the new world.
We as strongly believe that we can provide developers with super powers to build faster and better by solving the challenges that they face everyday.
We are an early stage YC-backed startup building developer tools for high growth companies. We are a team of ex-Googlers with background building engineering teams at several fast-growing silicon valley startups.
Our customers include high growth companies such as Doordash, Square, Benchling, Figma.
About the role
We are a tight-knit team of engineers and problem-solvers, looking for a developer content manager on contract basis who can help scale our content strategy. As a Developer Content Manager, you will play a pivotal role in creating clear, engaging, and accurate technical content that educates and informs our audience (engineering leaders). You will do your own research and collaborate with our team to produce high-quality documentation, articles, tutorials, short-form content and other forms of technical content that cater to both experts and beginners in the field.
Things you’ll help with:
- Create and manage technical product content such as technical blog posts, website copy, case studies, getting-started guides, documentation.
- Live and breathe developer content distribution
- Create content that not only improves SEO, but also is popular with Hacker News, Reddit - anywhere developers live
- Effectively communicate the value of new products and services to prospective customers.
- Collaborate with freelance developers to give them topic ideas
- Distribute content across all channels to drive engagement.
- Research on technical topics and write authoritative genuine content
- Gain insight into customer use of current products, untapped opportunities to share our product with the users.
- Know how to leverage AI tools but also have enough creativity to find out what sticks with the audience.
- Quality over quantity
Skills & Experience
- Experience working closely with developers
- If you have written content that has hit home run on Hacker News and Reddit - please share in the message when applying
- Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Experience doing your own research and coming up with deep authentic technical material
- Creative thinking and problem solving skills.
- Willingness to learn new technical concepts.
- Having a CS degree is a plus.
- Prior startup experience is a plus.
Other points to note
- Open to applicants from any location with some overlap of Pacific timezone.
- Show us evidence of exceptional communication skills (ideally on technical topics) - this is the primary skill we're looking for in this role.
What we offer in return
- A competitive salary
- Flexible vacation policy
- Transparency - we overshare all investor and company updates with everyone
- An opportunity to grow the company and culture from its early days.
- Don’t see something you were looking for/ need? Let us know!