Responsibilities

• Shape the story: Work out how to explain Valon clearly: what we’re building, why it’s hard, and why a strong candidate should care. Then build the material the rest of the company can reuse, including messaging for candidates and outside audiences, the specific stories and numbers that back it up, and clear answers to why people join.
• Write the content: Get Valon in front of the people who form opinions about where to work: Founder essays and posts, company updates and longer memos, "Why I joined" and team stories, product and technical stories written for a wider audience, candidate-facing material that explains the company and the work.
• Get other people talking: Known writers, podcasters, and newsletter authors who would find Valon genuinely interesting, build real relationships with them as humans, and pitch in a way that earns coverage rather than begs for it.
• Help recruiting close: Give recruiting sharper tools to tell the story, especially late in the process when someone is deciding whether to take an offer, including a better "Why Valon" deck, candidate FAQs and offer-stage materials, pitch materials for specific roles, and straight answers to the doubts candidates actually raise.
• Decide what’s worth sharing: Spot the moments, people, and proof points worth writing about, decide whether something is a founder post, a candidate asset, or a longer piece, and protect the signal.
• Build a system that lasts: Create a repeatable way to find and tell stories, publishing on a regular cadence without heavy process, and tracking what’s actually moving candidates.
• You’re a strong writer with good taste and sharp judgment and you’re probably a fit if you: have a knack for turning real internal material into readable external content.

Requirements

• Staff IC to Director, probably 6 to 10 years in, and someone who has been the primary or founding voice somewhere rather than one writer on a large team.

Preferred

• You might come from brand or content at a consumer company that got identity right, from journalism or entertainment, from founder communications, or from a writing-heavy operator role. The background matters less than whether you can find the real story and make people care.