Position: Content Writer
Company: YouTeam
Category: Marketing
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper

YouTeam is a Silicon Valley-based (yet Ukrainian at heart) startup with an office in Lviv and a distributed team across Ukraine. We are a fast-growing company backed by Y Combinator (you might have heard about some other companies it has invested in: Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox). Our mission is to help other amazing startups succeed on their journey and this is why we need your help.

 About the position:

We’re looking for a new teammate whose core focus will be blog content creation in Inbound Marketing Dept. YouTeam’s blog is already a strong lead generation channel trusted by startup founders and tech leaders. The role of our new content writer will be in preparing outstanding articles on tech topics—optimized for search engines, and yet for people.

You will work on:

— daily: SEO-optimized articles for our blog, guest posts for third-party resources;
— occasionally: whitepapers, researches, and other lead magnet content, interviews, emails;
— rarely: landing page content, ads copy, press releases, case studies, etc.

Main responsibilities will include (but will not be limited to):

— Competitors’ content analysis to make sure that we do better in our target areas.
— Organization and maintaining a company blog content plan.
— Articles creation for YouTeam’s corporate blog.
— Update and improvement of existing content.
— Writing guest posts for our partners’ blogs.
— Working with an SEO expert to deliver articles with the potential of high ranking in Google.
— Conducting interviews with our clients to create blog content and case studies.

Skills and competencies required for the position:

As a must, we expect from any candidate top writing and editorial skills, understanding, and ability to use different writing style guides, and high literacy in English (B2/C1, preferably confirmed with an international certificate).
— Basic understanding of IT concepts, software development, and programming technologies.
— Great research skills: the ability to find the most trustworthy sources, analyze info (that might be out of your direct expertise) and turn it into a structured piece of content.
— Focus on readers’ needs and great user experience: you can define what info brings value to the target audience, write about complex technical topics in simple words and engaging manner, structure your thoughts in the most logical way.
— Attention to details: working with a large volume of text, you will still notice double spaces, non-American English, smallest mistakes, and logical gaps.
— Basic analytical skills: you can make a data-driven decision about new blog topics and improvement of the existing articles; can explain the meaning of charts and tables for readers.
— Basic knowledge of SEO fundamentals.
— Great organizational and time-management skills: you can be involved in different projects at the same time without missing deadlines.
— Independent in your area of responsibility: you can work with minimal supervision successfully implementing from scratch your own ideas.
— Team spirit person: you work on a cumulative team result rather than on your own wins.

As a startup, we constantly improve our work processes and expect the same willingness to learn and grow from everyone who joins YouTeam.
And above all, you must love writing about tech. :)

Will be nice if you have:

— Basic HTML knowledge
— Understanding of Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Ahrefs
— Experience with a WordPress text editor, MailChimp
— Ability to use Canva or other graphic editors to create simple media files, infographics, etc.
— Experience working in IT

Recognize yourself? We would be glad to offer you space for the realization of your creative ideas and professional potential.

We offer to our candidate:

— Remuneration in USD and regular performance review
— Bonuses for KPI achievement
— Full support for private entrepreneurs in financial and legal aspects
— Possibility to work from both office and remotely
— Flexible working hours
— Paid lunches

— Paid vacation and sick leaves

— Startup culture with low hierarchy, open communication, trust, and environment that supports professional growth