Job Description
Blavity, Inc. is a venture-funded media and technology company, founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we are home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials & Gen Z through original content, video, unique experiences, and product solutions. Blavity Inc. has evolved into a market leader for Black media, reaching 250 million users per month through our growing brand portfolio, including Blavity, AfroTech, Talent Infusion, Travel Noire, HealthStack, and Blavity House Party. Our Blavity, Inc. employee community is composed of passionate, energetic, and culturally conscious individuals working together to deliver value to each other, the company, and our clients. We are always searching for new additions to our community that will help us continue to scale, contribute meaningfully to our culture, and advance our strategic direction.
Job Summary:
Blavity Inc. is looking for a Content Marketing Manager, AI to own the content engine and value-based storytelling that positions AI Edge as the authority of the tech ecosystem. This role is responsible for building evergreen & timely AfroTech AI education and AI Edge content across its social channels, the AI Edge newsletter, creator content. This role ensures everything we publish is educational, value-based, and positions our brand as THE experts in tech, AI, and career growth.
The ideal candidate understands and is passionate about the tech ecosystem and AI topics, treats content as a brand-authority engine, and is comfortable producing the work themselves, including being on camera to test concepts. Success will be AI Edge newsletter sign-ups and social engagement.
This role will report directly to the Chief of Staff with a dotted-line relationship to the VP of Digital Operations.
Responsibilities:
- Own the AI Edge content engine: long-form blog posts, thought leadership articles, and evergreen video content on tech trends, AI topics, and upskilling for founders, corporate professionals, and techies.
- Curate and write a bi-weekly AI Edge newsletter sends
- Transform monthly AI Edge workshop recordings into multi-channel content marketing material
- Coordinate with tech and AI creators to identify timely content opportunities and approve suggested video pitches.
- Work with Black Tech Green Money to ensure podcast clips are strong, valuable, and ensure episodes and clips make it over to our YouTube channel
- Partner with our SEO team to create blog-post like educational content
- Ensure all evergreen content is value-based, educational, and positions the brand as the expert of the tech ecosystem
- Develop paid marketing content and partner on the paid ad strategy
- Nice to have: Be comfortable on camera to test concepts and formats
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
Required Experience:
- 4+ years in content marketing, content production, or a comparable role, ideally in a media, community, creator-led, or tech brand environment
- Demonstrated passion for and fluency in the tech ecosystem, technology topics, and AI trends
- Strong long-form writing and storytelling skills that make complex tech and AI topics accessible and valuable
- Experience directing creators or contributors and maintaining content quality
- Comfortable being on camera to test and present concepts
Preferred Experience:
- Content experience in the tech, AI, startup, or career-development space
- Experience with newsletters, webinars, and YouTube or podcast content workflows
- Experience developing paid marketing content or partnering on paid ad strategy
Technologies:
Fluent in Google Suite, Asana, and/or comparable project management suite; working experience with newsletter and YouTube content tools
Additional Qualifications:
- Independent, entrepreneurial self-starter comfortable with a high level of responsibility
- Experimental, forward-thinking mindset with a strong interest in testing new content ideas and formats
- Strong comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action
- High-energy, company-first, positive attitude; willing to wear multiple hats
- Excellent communication skills; outgoing and sociable
- A healthy appreciation of GIFs and Black culture
Details:
- This is a fully remote, U.S.- based role. Occasional travel may be required.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Candidates must be available to work in alignment with the Pacific Time Zone.
- The annual salary range for this role is $30 - $40/hr
- This position will be employed through Blavity’s Employer of Record (EOR) partner. The selected candidate will be an employee of the EOR and assigned to provide services to Blavity.
To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter online at BlavityInc.com/Careers.
Blavity is committed to creating a diverse environment free of discrimination and harassment, and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
Blavity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, HIV Status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
