Marketing Specialist, Social Media & Content

Hacker Valley Media is a cybersecurity creative media company. We make podcasts, video series, and live streams. Our audience comprises 140K+ You Tube subscribers and has reached 3M+ streams worldwide.

Hacker Valley Media is looking for a marketing specialist with an insatiable appetite for creating content people love to watch. Our lane: entertainment, education, and leader insights.

To the outside world, cybersecurity is scary, sometimes even to the practitioners inside it. We're on a mission to make it accessible to everyone, starting with the practitioners and leaders in our space. You'll help create and promote the content that gets us there like podcasts, docu-series, custom shows, and one day, Hacker Valley Media will be on Netflix (thanks to you).

• Run social for our flagship client
  : end-to-end account management: post creation, content calendar (Notion), publishing episodes to You Tube, metric collection, and weekly camera-on calls with our teams.
• Own the Hacker Valley content calendar
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  Social copy and scheduling across Linked In, You Tube, and Instagram;
  Linked In Live invites and RSVP pushes (200–400 registrations per event); social listening and metrics via Hootsuite.
• Support the podcast pipeline
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  Assist with episode outlines, show notes, and thumbnail creative direction across our shows. You don't need to be a designer, but you do need to share your opinions and ideas.
• Be the quality gate
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  You hold a seat on the formal review in our QC workflow. Your job is to keep the energy at an all-time high and send back anything that isn't hot. Decent doesn't work for us.
• Report on what's working
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  Monthly metrics with takeaways (start/stop/keep), and your own monthly goals agreed with leadership from month one. You can tell leadership what actually happened, not just what looks good.

• Creative writing
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  You can write in multiple brand voices without letting them bleed into each other.
• AI fluency
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  You use AI as a drafting partner, not a ghostwriter — and you know exactly where its output stops being good enough. AI-as-final-output doesn't fly at Hacker Valley: if your copy could have come straight out of ChatGPT with no judgment added, it won't work here.
• Cybersecurity curiosity
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  You don't need to be a hacker, but you're genuinely curious about cybersecurity and hacker culture — and you can write for our technical-leaning audience without pretending to be one of them.

We use AI daily for research and drafts. AI-as-final-output is banned. If your copy could have come straight out of ChatGPT with no judgment added, that's slop, and slop is a fireable offense here.

• 1-2+ years in social media/content marketing, or a standout new grad with a real creator portfolio (a channel, a meme account, an internship where you actually shipped). We've promoted from this exact seat before: our COO and our outgoing Executive Producer both started here-ish.
• A writer. You love social platforms, and taking shots at hook-first social copy
• A finisher. Calendars stay current, nothing posts late, follow-through is automatic.
• In it for marketing
  : this is your path. You’re not using the marketing role to springboard into sales later.

Not video editing (our producers and editors own that), not bizops, and not a solo-strategist gig, strategy is co-designed with leadership and a fractional marketing advisor. You earn autonomy by shipping.

A real 40-hour week, do excellent work, then go have a life. Austin-preferred but travel-friendly: bring your laptop on that three-week trip, and we're good. Your work is seen by the CEO weekly and a real client every week. Growth is available here.