Senior Content Strategist

Named #4 startup in Canada for 2024, Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class capital markets team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of "unicorns" on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by tier-one venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

As a Senior Content Strategist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our brand narrative, translating trends, data, and expert insights into engaging content that informs and inspires our audience. This is more than just a writing role-you'll be a key architect of our content strategy, working cross-functionally to elevate Hiive's presence across various platforms.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Develop and execute a strategic content roadmap that aligns with Hiive's brand, business goals, and audience needs.
• Conduct interviews with high-profile startup leaders, industry experts, and Hiive's executive team to craft compelling narratives.
• Convert the world's largest set of private market data into engaging and insightful stories.
• Create and manage a mix of long-form and short-form content, including blog posts, whitepapers, ad copy, social media, and web content.
• Collaborate closely with growth and product marketing to optimize content for SEO, paid media, and key marketing initiatives.
• Provide editorial oversight, ensuring consistency, clarity, and brand alignment across all content formats.
• Partner with subject matter experts to develop engaging content for product launches and other major company milestones.
• Work with designers and agencies to produce visually compelling assets such as infographics and videos.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in content strategy, journalism, or content marketing.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to distill complex topics into clear, engaging prose.
• Familiarity with editorial processes, messaging hierarchies, and copyediting best practices.
• Experience developing content for diverse audiences, including designers, developers, product managers, and investors.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple deadlines and priorities.
• Understanding of startups, venture capital, and financial markets, or a strong willingness to learn.
• Familiarity with BI tools for uncovering insights and using data to inform storytelling.
• Knowledge of SEO best practices is a plus.
• Experience working in marketing at a high-growth tech company is a bonus.

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.
• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.
• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.
• A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly "Friday bar," team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two "onsite" all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens' Network events.
• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.