Marketing Specialist, Social Media & Content

About Us

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:
  You can write in multiple brand voices without letting them bleed into each other.
• AI fluency:
  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:
  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.

Salary: 50k–65k