AI-First Marketing Operator

🇿🇦 Up to ZAR 500,000 per year, on a full-time, permanent employment contract 🌎 Fully remote working from anywhere in South Africa! 🏖️ 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits ✨ A marketing and authority role with AI agents, skills and automation at the centre of the craft — not bolted onto it 🎬 Working with globally recognisable brands across US entertainment, media, streaming, fandom, social and content 🚀 A rare opportunity to shape how an AI-native agency shows up in the market 💻 High-end, fast computer and all the latest software, AI tools and productivity tools you will need Who We Are At Storm Ideas, we work with some of the biggest names in US entertainment.

Since 2008, our international team has helped major entertainment, media and content-led businesses build stronger relationships with audiences through strategy, social, creative production, community, operations, products and technology. Our work sits at the intersection of entertainment, fandom, content, technology and operations.

Storm is an entertainment agency for the AI era: combining deep social, content and audience expertise with practical AI capability.

We help clients make excellent work today, while redesigning the teams, workflows and operations they need as AI reshapes the industry. We practise what we sell: we have transformed how Storm itself operates for the AI era, with agentic tools, shared context and AI-native workflows woven into everyday work — and a dedicated AI Operations team keeping that stack reliable and well-run.

You will be stepping into an environment most agencies are still only talking about, and building on foundations most marketers never get. Storm is headquartered in the UK, with an international, remote-first team and a client base centred on US entertainment.

We are now building our first dedicated commercial team. About the Role This is an AI-first marketing role.

Not a marketing role that “uses AI tools” — a role where the marketing engine itself is built from AI agents, reusable skills, shared context and automated workflows, and where you are the person who designs, runs and relentlessly improves that engine. The engine's job is authority and demand: a website that makes Storm's positioning unmissable, articles and SEO content that earn attention, an active Linked In presence for Storm and its senior leaders, research packs so our commercial team never walks into a room cold, and the creative assets that carry all of it.

That's why craft matters as much as the AI.

You need real writing and editing ability, an eye for design (you'll make and direct visual assets, and while you don't need to be a designer, you do need to know good from almost-good) and a marketer's instinct for story: how a narrative builds attention across a post, a page and a campaign.

AI gives you leverage; judgement decides what ships. The right person does not need to arrive as a fully formed senior marketing leader.

We care much more about agency, judgement, systems thinking, technical mindedness, learning velocity and serious engagement with the work.

But the AI bar is real. We're not talking about using AI as a search box or an autocomplete.

The person we're looking for treats AI as a capable pair of hands.

They delegate whole pieces of work, not just questions.

They review what comes back with a sharp, critical eye.

And they keep refining how they brief and direct it, so the quality compounds.

If you read that and thought “that's just how I work now,” this role is built for you. What You Will Do Build and run Storm's marketing engine as an AI-first system: agents, skills, prompts, context libraries and automations producing website content, articles, Linked In material and research at a pace and consistency manual marketing cannot match Own the source-of-truth context layer that makes AI output good: positioning, service descriptions, content pillars, senior POVs, approved language and tone — structured so every workflow starts from truth, not from a blank prompt Turn senior thinking into public authority: interview internal experts, mine calls and transcripts with AI, and take drafts from agent output to published quality with real…