Writer & Editor (m/f/d)

Job description

Do you digest everything you can find about tech, development and startups to get the low down before TechCrunch? Can you boil down complex, technical concepts to their very essence? Are you an analytical and conceptual thinker with creative brilliance and clarity?

Then help us to set new standards in our industry.

Key responsibilities & tasks

• Write brand and product-related long copy (e.g., website content, blog posts, technical documentation), create catchy short copy (e.g., social media content) and microcopy

• Deliver high quality, textually and tonally consistent content, always focused on our target groups in software development & B2B ecommerce and based on reliable, verifiable research, facts and background information

• Craft impeccable and impactful media publications such as press releases, print and online content, as well as reports

• Conceptualize and implement effective, target-group-oriented communication activities—from ideation, planning and development to publication, distribution and analysis

• Become part of the editorial & content team and collaborate with our tech, marketing and design teams, as well as our co-founders, to write and publish meaningful content

• Help us establish a sophisticated writing culture, day by day

Your qualifications

• Academic degree in either English language and/or literature, journalism, communication, public relations, media, or similar

• 2+ years of experience in creating high-quality content, ideally in tech and/or about startups (e.g., as a tech journalist, in technical documentation, or as a content creator at a tech startup)

• Excellent English, both written and spoken; ideally with full professional proficiency in German

• Analytical and conceptual thinker with creative brilliance and clarity

• Perfectionist with accuracy, analytical understanding and strong attention to detail

• Storyteller with the ability to captivate an audience with content about tech or business

• A passionate writer & reader as well as a techno-optimist at heart, as described here

Some quotes that resonate with us

• "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.” —Amy Poehler

• "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” —Michael Jordan

• "Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” —Tim Notke

• "Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.” —Emily Chang

• "Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a ‘professional self’ Monday through Friday and a ‘real self’ the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.” —Sheryl Sandberg

Take heart — apply