Content Writer - Contract

Job Description

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience.

Mixpanel serves over 30,000 companies from different industries around the world, including Expedia, Uber, Ancestry, DocuSign, and Lemonade. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore.

*This is a 6 month contract with the potential to extend*

About the Marketing Team

Mixpanel's Marketing team is responsible for creating messaging, content, and programs that drive awareness with our target audience, influence purchase decisions, and help users achieve maximum value from our products and become advocates.

The product marketing function, which you'd be a part of, was recognized by Sharebird as a "Top 25 Team To Learn From And Work For To Develop Your Product Marketing Career." The team takes pride in being collaborative, strategic, and results-oriented – as well as fun and fulfilling to be a part of.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled reporter and writer to help produce articles for The Signal, Mixpanel's blog about all things product management and analytics. Our Marketing team is committed to growing the Mixpanel brand by publishing insightful, story-driven content about the world of data-led product and software creation. The person who fills this role would play a big part in that.

Responsibilities

Reporting directly to (and being edited by) the Marketing team's Content Lead, this person would turn topics and interview leads into engaging articles for our growing audience of data-hungry product managers, software engineers, growth marketers, and tech company founders. Information-gathering will be a vital part of this role, which should include plenty of calls and Q&As with industry experts (inside and outside of Mixpanel) to gather solid-gold insights to deliver to our readers.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Experience reporting and writing about software and technology for either a media company or marketing team
• A desire to learn as much as they can about product analytics, data stacks, how the various teams that make up software companies work together, etc.,

Bonus Points For

• Experience pitching, sourcing, and writing stories in the field of data-led product management
• Experience working on a marketing team
• Having worked on a product team, possessing programming knowledge, or other relevant technical experience
• Knowing a thing or two about writing for SEO

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

Culture Values

• Be Open: When knowledge becomes open, we can come together as a team to collaborate around a shared purpose
• Customer Focus: Our customers’ success is our success
• Lead Change: Everyone at Mixpanel has the capacity to make an impact on the business
• Results Oriented: Driving results in a measurable way ensures we stay focused on the highest impact initiatives
• One Team: We can’t win without each other

Why choose Mixpanel?

A clear market leader in the product analytics space, Mixpanel has raised $77M from world-renowned VC firms like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, and YC, and our revenue has grown significantly since then. Our ambitious, collaborative team makes it possible by finding creative solutions to new challenges with scaling, reliability, design, and customer service.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.