Content Marketing Manager

HackerOne; Austin (CO); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health (medical, vision, dental) and 0

Equity stock options

Retirement plans

Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO

Paid maternity and parental leave

Leaves of absence

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

HackerOne is seeking a Content Marketing Manager to lead the blog, annual research, and editorial programs. You will partner with experts to uncover stories, turn data into compelling narratives, and ensure content meets editorial standards.

You’ll drive SEO/AEO initiatives and scale content across campaigns while applying AI tools with strong human judgment. You will collaborate across teams to publish high-quality content that resonates with security leaders and demonstrates measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in content marketing, editorial, journalism, or a related role.
• Strong storytelling with ability to make complex subjects accessible.
• Excellent writing, editing, and interviewing skills.
• Experience developing research-driven content, reports, or thought leadership.
• Experience managing a content program or editorial calendar.
• Experience with SEO and/or AEO and performance measurement.
• Experience using AI tools to support content creation and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Manage the HackerOne blog, editorial calendar, storytelling, and publishing.
• Lead development of annual research and flagship reports from data to narrative.
• Interview subject matter experts to uncover perspectives and strengthen thought leadership.
• Turn complex cybersecurity topics into clear content for security leaders.
• Execute SEO/AEO strategies using data and insights to improve performance.
• Maintain HackerOne’s Style Guide for clear, consistent content.
• Oversee content intake, sharpen ideas, and move concepts to publication.
• Adapt stories for campaigns, social media, and audience engagement.
• Measure content performance and iterate based on insights.
• Leverage AI tools while maintaining strong editorial judgment.

Skills

Content marketing

Editorial/journalism

Storytelling

Interviewing

SEO

AI-assisted content

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Google Analytics

SEMrush

AI tools for content

Job description

HackerOne is a global leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). The HackerOne Platform unites agentic AI solutions with the ingenuity of the world’s largest community of security researchers to continuously discover, validate, prioritize, and remediate exposures across code, cloud, and AI systems. Through solutions like bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, agentic pentesting, AI red teaming, and code security, HackerOne delivers measurable, continuous reduction of cyber risk for enterprises. Industry leaders, including Anthropic, Crypto.com, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Lufthansa, Uber, UK Ministry of Defence, and the U.S. Department of Defense, trust HackerOne to safeguard their digital ecosystems. HackerOne was recognized in Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem report for its leadership in AI Security Testing and has been named a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals (2024).

HackerOne is at a pivotal inflection point in the security industry. Offensive security is no longer optional – it is the standard for forward-thinking companies that want to build trust and resilience in a world where AI-driven innovation and adversaries are moving faster than ever. With the industry shifting, HackerOne stands apart: we combine the ingenuity of the largest security research community with a best-in-class AI-powered platform, trusted by the world’s top organizations.

HackerOne Values

HackerOne is dedicated to fostering a strong and inclusive culture. HackerOne is Customer Obsessed and prioritizes customer outcomes in our decisions and actions. We Default to Disclosure by operating with transparency and integrity, ensuring trust and accountability. Employees, researchers, customers, and partners Win Together by fostering empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability.

Remote role for candidates located in HackerOne's Hubs located:

• San Francisco, California, U.S.
• Seattle, Washington, U.S.
• Austin, Texas, U.S.
• Washington, D.C., U.S.
• Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Position Summary

At HackerOne, great content starts with a great story. It’s how we make complex cybersecurity topics understandable, turn original research into insights people remember, and build trust with security leaders.

As our Content Marketing Manager, you’ll help find and tell those stories. You’ll lead key parts of our content program, including the HackerOne blog, annual research, search optimization, and editorial standards. You’ll work with experts across HackerOne to uncover interesting ideas, find the story in the data, and turn technical expertise into content that is clear, useful, and worth reading.

This role is part editor, part storyteller, and part content strategist. You’ll bring strong editorial judgment, curiosity, and an audience-first mindset to what we create, while using data, search insights, and AI tools to help our content reach the right people and make a measurable impact.

What You Will Do

• Manage the HackerOne blog, including the editorial calendar, story development, publishing, optimization, and performance tracking.
• Lead the development of HackerOne’s annual research and flagship reports, finding the strongest stories in our data and working with internal experts and partners to turn those insights into compelling narratives.
• Find stories across HackerOne by interviewing subject matter experts, asking the right questions, and identifying perspectives that can strengthen our thought leadership.
• Turn complex cybersecurity topics into clear, engaging content for security leaders without losing the substance or expertise behind them.
• Help execute our answer engine optimization (AEO) and search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, using search data and audience insights to identify opportunities and improve content performance.
• Maintain and apply HackerOne’s Style Guide to ensure our content is clear, consistent, and distinctly HackerOne.
• Manage the content intake process, helping teams sharpen ideas, prioritize requests, and move strong stories from concept to publication.
• Multiply the impact of our best stories by adapting content for campaigns, social media, and audience engagement.
• Measure content performance and use those insights to understand what resonates with our audience and inform what we create next.
• Use AI tools throughout the content process to support research, idea development, drafting, editing, optimization, and repurposing while maintaining strong human editorial judgment.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in content marketing, editorial, journalism, or a related role.
• A strong storyteller with demonstrated experience finding an interesting angle, building a clear narrative, and making complex subjects engaging and accessible.
• Excellent writing, editing, and interviewing skills, with strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.
• Experience developing research-driven content, reports, or thought leadership and turning data and expert insights into stories for a specific audience.
• Experience managing a content program, publication, or editorial calendar.
• Experience with SEO and/or AEO, including keyword research, content optimization, and performance measurement.
• Experience using AI tools to support content creation, research, optimization, or other marketing workflows.
• Strong collaboration and project management skills, with the ability to work across teams and bring ideas from concept to publication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating content for B2B technology, cybersecurity, or another technical industry.
• A background in journalism, editorial, research, or another field where interviewing and story development are core skills.
• Familiarity with content and search performance tools such as Google Analytics, SEMrush, or similar tools.
• Experience adapting stories and content for social media and other marketing channels.
• Experience partnering with product marketing, demand generation, communications, or product teams.
• Curiosity about how search, AI, and changing audience behaviors are reshaping content and storytelling.

Job Benefits

• Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance*
• Equity stock options
• Retirement plans
• Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Eligibility may differ by country

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