Job description
Company Background
Censys’ mission is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet. Frustrated by the lack of trustworthy Internet intelligence, we set out to create the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the Internet. Today, Censys delivers real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide.
Censys knows the internet and cloud better than anyone else. Attack Surface Management provides customers with an attacker-centric view of all externally facing internet and cloud to extend visibility, prioritize, and remediate the most critical risk exposures that will actually lead to a breach. Our daily IPv4 scans and the world’s largest SSL/TLS Certificate database enables customers with the most accurate and continuously updated attack surfaces. Enterprise security teams leverage Censys to keep pace with the speed of the business and gain an advantage on the rapidly evolving cyber-attack threats.
Role Summary:
As the Senior Technical Content Manager, you will be central to crafting and refining how Censys tells our stories to both technical and broader audiences. Approximately 75% of your role will involve content creation and editing, while the remaining 25% will involve content ideation, planning, and cross-team collaboration.
Reporting to the VP of Product Marketing, this candidate will collaborate with Censys’s cybersecurity SMEs and consult with technical staff to create compelling articles, technical guides, case studies, blogs, whitepapers, and ebooks on the latest cybersecurity incidents, threats, trends and techniques.
Location:
This position is remote in the United States.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Content Creation: Develop editorials that clearly communicate complex cybersecurity topics. Write, edit, and publish detailed cybersecurity reports, white papers, and blog content based on research findings.
- Content Performance and Optimization: Leverage data and insights to measure content performance across all channels and refine content strategies.
- Driving Our Content Calendar: Drive Censys’ content calendar to ensure consistent cross functional contribution and weekly delivery of content.
- Social Media Support: Contribute and manage social media content to extend the reach of our technical content and announcements. This may include video features on our Youtube channel too.
- Contributor to Marketing & Sales Initiatives: Provide strategic content to support marketing campaigns, events, and launches and marketing campaigns.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with security researchers and threat analysts to translate technical insights into engaging content.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 5+ years’ proven experience in content strategy or editorial roles—preferably in a similar role for a high growth company.
- Familiarity with Cybersecurity Domain: Understanding of security concepts, including SOC, IR, Threat Intelligence, and Vulnerability Management. Ability to stay updated on the latest cybersecurity trends, emerging technologies and threats.
- Editorial Leadership: Establish editorial standards and ensure compliance with brand guidelines. Maintain consistency, accuracy, and quality across all published materials.
- Technical Aptitude: Incorporate a deep understanding of the threat landscape to provide context and relevance in editorial content.
- Exceptional Writing Skills: Ability to craft engaging, accurate, and concise content tailored to both technical and general audiences.
- Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS): Proficiency working with CMS systems and other tools to post, share, and measure content performance.
Nice to have:
- Ability to leverage Leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate content development and quality assurance.
- Experience developing effective educational content that simplifies concepts, making it easier for security teams to discover, adopt, and achieve their goals using Censys.
- Experience sourcing and working with external agencies, vendors, individual freelancers, and budgets.
Who you are:
- Comfortable working in a fully remote or distributed organization.
- Self-starter who is proactive, independent, and eager to identify new content opportunities aligned with company priorities.
- Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Fueled by curiosity; you are a lifelong learner who figures stuff out.
- Understands the buyer journeys for B2B cybersecurity executives and practitioners and the types of content resonate at each stage.
- Self-motivated storyteller who excels at translating complex technical details into a compelling narrative that serves technical audiences.
Our target salary range for this role is between $120,000 USD and $160,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.
In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to: 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see our careers page for more details.
Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan and our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives. For this role, we are open to remote employees across the continental US.
Note to external recruiters/agencies: We are not currently engaging with third-party agencies for this role and will not accept unsolicited outreach. We kindly ask that you do not submit resumes or candidate profiles to our team.
