Developer Storyteller

Help us to increase the number of successful products in the world!

• 🌍 Location: We are full-remote and globally distributed! Our current team is distributed between GMT-8 and GMT+2, so we currently only hire in these time zones.

• 🎤 Interview process: 1. Culture screen with People team (30min); 2. Technical interview with Andy (60min) 3. Exec interview (15min), 4. SuperDay Read more about our interview process.

• 🖥️ Team: Content

• 💼 Manager:  Andy Vandervell

• 💰 Compensation: Please check our compensation calculator.

• 🦔 Read more about how we hire and how we think about diversity & inclusion.

About PostHog

About PostHog

We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

• A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

• A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.

• Max AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, messaging, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We are:

1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

2. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

3. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

Things we care about

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

• Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on.

• Time for deep work: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down work time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.

• Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.

• Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

Who we're looking for

• A developer who loves writing: We want someone who loves the craft of writing and understands the mindset and interests of developers. You could be a dev advocate with a content bias, a content marketer who codes as a hobby, or a developer who is also a prolific blogger.

• A terminally online social poster: We're great at writing long-form blogs and guides, but our social game is kind of weak. We want someone who loves being in and around online communities. An active poster with, ideally, their own modest following.

• A sense of humor: If you're going to own our social output, you're going to need to tune into our tone of voice. Our website should give you an idea of what we're looking for here, but we’re also looking for someone who can add to this with their own style.

• A startup native: Our core audience is developers and startup founders. You may have founded your own company, or have worked at early-stage startups in the past. You should be familiar with the trending companies in this space.

What you'll be doing

• Writing engaging newsletters: We want you to contribute to Product for Engineers, our newsletter that's nearing 100k subscribers. Popular issues include, This is why you're not shipping, An engineer's guide to vibe design (with prompts), and Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it.

• Owning social content: You’ll keep our social channels active and engaging by repackaging our long-form content into short, scroll-stopping posts. You'll support launches with timely social content, manage our Twitter/X and LinkedIn accounts day-to-day, schedule and publish posts, and ensure everything feels consistent and on-brand.

• Pitching and scripting videos: We're at the beginning of our video journey, but we have big ambitions here. We already have internal production in place, but we’re looking for someone who can occasionally support on the content side.

• Telling our story: We have a unique culture and an ambitious vision for the product. The fundamental goal of this role is to be constantly finding different ways to share what we're building, why we're building it, and how, to the world.

Requirements

• Great writing and editing skills: You'll need to be as comfortable writing long-form newsletters as you are funny social posts.

• Trends watcher: As the job title suggests, we’re looking for someone who knows everything that’s happening online in the tech world. A new development trend or meme just dropped? If it’s relevant to us, we want you to know about it.

• Talk like a developer, or (better) be one: We're building PostHog for product engineers. We need to translate everything we're doing into the language they will understand and be entertained by.

Nice to have

• Able to travel: We're beginning to run events somewhat frequently. Attending and running events isn't a core part of this role, but it's useful if you're able to travel and be involved in the promotion of some events.

• Video skills: Again, not a core part of this role, but we're scaling up our video team and some comfort appearing on camera, or editing your own short videos, is a bonus.

• Actually can code: Vibe coders welcome. As we want to appeal to developers, speaking their language often means writing code. If you can build apps, or sites that get their attention, we’d love to do that too.

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