Head of Content

About the role

Hercules is looking for a Head of Content to help us scale all our content production across social, paid media, SEO, and Blog.

Responsibilities

• Own all content production at Hercules
• Lead: Manage a team of ~10 full-time employees + contractors
• Content standards: Enforce and raise the bar for content across the company
• Marketing angle and messaging: Own ad prioritize the market angles and messaging we pursue at the company
• Written content: Lead our content strategy and production across SEO, blog, social media, product announcements, case studies, Google ads, and more
• Static image content: Lead our static image content strategy, primarily used on Meta
• Video content: Lead our video content strategy for paid ads like Youtube and Meta, as well as video customer stories or announcements
• Paid and organic: Own content across paid and organic
• Hire: Help hire/manage writers, editors, designers, and other creators

Skills

• Writing quality: exceptional long-form writing ability. Our style is terse, simple, clear, convincing, authentic, and useful. We do not accept AI slop. A track record of strong written communication is a hard requirement
• SEO: strong understanding of search intent, content structure, on-page SEO, internal linking, content refreshes, and what it takes for content to rank
• Commercial sense: create content that ranks AND converts the audience to paid customers
• Technical fluency: familiarity with technical concepts like APIs, authentication, hosting, role based access control etc
• AI leverage: 10x your workflow by using the frontier of AI tools well. We expect you to be able to product ~50+ high quality articles a month, if not more
• Hiring and management: We expect you to have a background managing at least 15 people

Operating Principles

• We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.
• We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work.
• We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want.
• We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.

Schedule

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates who are willing to 1) work in US time zones and 2) travel to the office regularly.

Benefits

• Unlimited AI token budget
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
• We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

Pay

$100k-$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location) Compensation Range: $150K - $300K