Do important work that's flexible and well paid.

Market 8 is hiring a full-time content writer with solid experience in business-to-business (B2B) communications. 

We are a small services and consulting firm that provide marketing strategy and execution. We work mainly with firms that sell high-value products or services to other businesses. We provide demand-generation services that help our clients achieve consistent revenue growth.  

Market 8 seeks clients whose products or services have the potential to improve the world in substantial ways. 

We are not interested in generating marketing-qualified leads (MQLs). Rather, we help our clients build a brand, awareness, and revenue pipeline by educating their target audiences about the value our clients deliver.  

Most of our clients sell high-ticket products that involve advanced technologies. Some of our clients sell highly innovative products or services for which current demand is low because of low market awareness and understanding. Their technologies are in fields as diverse as artificial intelligence and climate tech. 

Founders and senior executives at many Market 8 clients come from science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) backgrounds. These executives may have little or no training or practical experience in marketing and sales. 

Consequently, they look to us for leadership and direction in bringing their products or services to market. They generally give our Market 8 team members the freedom to exercise creativity and professional judgment.

Overview of the work
The content writer for this role will be expected to conduct in-depth research on a range of topics. The research will likely involve interviews with subject-matter experts. 

The content writer will digest the research and then explain its practical business implications clearly and simply. The goal is to write interestingly, in a style non-experts can easily understand.

This is not a job for writers of fluffy, insubstantial SEO content. 

The writer will create solid, original content in formats that include long-form blog or web articles, web pages, customer case studies, social media posts, video scripts, and a variety of PDF documents. 

The content marketer should be able to contribute to the development of strategies that will increase reader engagement.

In this role, you will work with both internal team members and clients.

• On the client-side, you will work with founders, CEOs, chief revenue officers, and product owners at early growth-stage companies that seek to ramp their revenue. 
• Internally, you’ll work with Market 8 staff who work in the roles of sales, business development, growth consulting, and marketing.

In this job, the content writer will…

• Conduct surveys and interviews to understand the needs, interests, and behaviors of target audiences. 
• Define a written content strategy to help our clients achieve their goals and those of their target audiences.
• Conduct in-depth research on industry-related topics. 
• Develop substantial, original content written first for humans, and secondarily for search engines. 
• Build relationships with subject-matter experts. 
• Identify clients’ needs. Recommend new content to address gaps in the client's current content.
• Develop content for blogs, articles, webinars, courses, case studies, social media interactions, and websites.
• Help Market 8’s marketing team develop content for paid campaigns, mainly in social media. 
• Proofread content and manage quality-control checklists to minimize errors and inconsistencies.
• Edit, update, and polish current content assets to improve their usefulness, relevance, and readability.
• Write compelling headlines, article titles, and body copy to capture the attention of target audiences.
• Curate, research, design, and write articles for blogs and other distribution channels.
• Coordinate with marketers, editors, and designers to illustrate articles.

Freedom and independence

• You will work under contract. You can do your work virtually anywhere in the world, provided you have a reliable internet connection. 
• You must be willing to participate in Zoom calls and interviews with subject-matter experts and Market 8 team members a few times a week during business hours in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone (EST). 

Is this you?

To succeed in this role, you should be well organized and detail-oriented. 

You must be able to write effective, interesting stories in a variety of structures. You should be able to write both inverted pyramid and narrative story structures. You should know how to use several alternative structures for article ledes. 

We prefer to hire a native speaker of English. But we’re open to working with anyone who can write concise, clear copy that doesn’t need multiple rounds of editing. 

Education in journalism or equivalent work experience is a strong plus.  

You will be a solid candidate if you…

• Have strong writing and editing skills. You consistently write work that conforms to standard American grammar and usage. You are always looking to improve your craft. 
• Are endlessly curious and consider yourself a lifelong learner. You are a voracious reader on diverse non-fiction topics. 
• Are a critical thinker and tend to be skeptical. You use your writing as a way to think and learn. 
• Are open to coaching. 
• Write alone but like to work collaboratively on research, topic development, and editing. 
• Are conscientious and take pleasure in earning a client’s trust. 
• Can work in a fast-paced environment. 
• Hold a bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, English, journalism, media, or a related field. 
• Have 5+ years of experience as a content writer.
• Have a portfolio of published articles on B2B topics, preferably involving technology.
• Have experience… 
• Writing long-form content.
• Working in or with tech companies.
• Repurposing interviews, videos, or podcasts into articles.
• Conducting research by using multiple sources.
• Understand the differences between writing for conventional publications and writing for the web.
• Have a working knowledge of popular content management systems.
• Are proficient in all Google office applications (Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc.).
• Are familiar with the primary social media channels and their audiences. You understand how to achieve engagement through social media.
• Understand marketing concepts and principles.
• Can meet deadlines and produce work of consistent quality. 

The team you join will include people who work in North America, Europe, and Asia. 

What you can expect from us

• Competitive compensation, at $69,000 to $90,000 yearly ($US)
• Access to software and other technologies that facilitate remote work processes 
• Dedicated time and budget for personal growth and learning
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Yearly stipend for home-office set-up of your choice

Market 8 is a mission-driven company. We seek to do important work with clients whose innovative ideas, products, and services can change the world for the better. We have begun to focus mainly on climate tech.

• We exist to bring satisfaction and happiness to the daily lives of our team, our clients and the rest of the world. 
• There’s a simple word for what we strive to deliver: Joy. 
• Talk of joy may seem New Age, out of place in a business setting. 
• Even so, we all know joy when we feel it, and we know how flat and pointless life feels in its absence. We think a sense of joy is all too rare in business. It energizes everything.
• We pride ourselves on enabling our Market 8 community to pursue fulfillment and happiness in and out of work.

Equal opportunity

Our values:

Own it.

Collaborate. No one knows everything.

Be radically open-minded.