Senior Marketing Content Writer

We are ExtraHop. We're on a mission to provide security teams with the intelligence they need to confront and stop advanced threats like supply chain attacks, zero day exploits, and ransomware attacks. Cyber attackers still have the advantage. We’re taking it back with creativity, intellectual curiosity, and a sense of humor. Are you ready to help us reclaim the upper hand?

The solutions we build at ExtraHop are transforming the cybersecurity industry. ExtraHop helps the world’s leading enterprises, including Home Depot, Credit Suisse, and Caesars Entertainment, rise above the noise to secure their business in the cloud and on the ground.

We have ambitious organizational growth plans and we're looking for people ready to join us on this exciting journey—and grow their careers while they’re at it. Think you have the skill and creativity to work on one of the best teams in the industry? Read on.

We're looking for a highly motivated, results-driven Marketing Content Writer with exceptional writing and editing skills, a passion for cybersecurity, and experience developing a wide range of short- and longer-form content, including technical conference submissions, award submissions, blogs, white papers, e-books, infographics, landing pages, case studies, videos, and more. 

This person will collaborate across teams within and beyond marketing and with external agencies as needed in order to create engaging materials that help move prospects deeper into the buyer’s journey. 

Duties And Responsibilities

• Produces a range of clear, compelling content–including technical conference submissions, award submissions, blogs, white papers, e-books, infographics, landing pages, case studies, videos, and more–that captures the ExtraHop brand and communicates the value of our products to customers, prospects and partners.
• Develops content that engages specific audiences at various stages of the buying cycle.
• Works cross-functionally with stakeholders across the marketing team and other parts of the organization to understand major campaigns, launches, and themes and to develop a wide range of content pieces.
• Optimizes content for SEO and SEM. 
• Proactively and independently develops thought-leadership content that is appropriate for the blog and outside media channels.
• Develops a clear understanding of the ExtraHop value proposition, competitive differentiation, and placement in the market, and stays ahead of cybersecurity industry trends to find innovative ways to position ExtraHop in the market.

Required Qualifications And Experience

• Exceptional writing skills and a proven ability to distill and convey complex, technical topics and messaging in a clear, engaging manner.
• 5 years or more of writing experience as part of work experience, preferably about cybersecurity.
• Experience writing for a C-level audience (and for CISOs and CSOs in particular) is preferred.
• Must provide a portfolio consisting of a variety of content output upon request.
• Must have excellent communication skills.
• Must have outstanding project management skills; knowledge of Asana or similar project management tools preferred.
• Knowledge of SEO is a plus.
• Knowledge of financial services, healthcare, and/or public sectors is a plus.
• B.A. in English, Journalism, Marketing, or Communications from a four-year college or university or equivalent combination of work experience.

$105,000- $135,000 + benefits+ options

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ABOUT EXTRAHOP 

Cyberattackers have the advantage. ExtraHop is on a mission to help you take it back with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised. Our dynamic cyber defense platform, Reveal(x) 360, helps organizations detect and respond to advanced threats––before they compromise business operations. We apply cloud-scale AI to petabytes of traffic per day, performing line-rate decryption and behavioral analysis across all infrastructure, workloads, and data-in-flight. With complete visibility from ExtraHop, enterprises can detect malicious behavior, hunt advanced threats, and forensically investigate any incident with confidence.

ExtraHop is recognized by leading organizations for both its innovation in the market and its commitment to building a world-class team. In 2020, we’ve already been named a “Best Place to Work” by Inc., Computerworld, BuiltIn Seattle and Seattle Business Magazine, and we’ve been named to Wealthfront’s Career-Launching Companies list for the last four years.