Technical Storyteller

Doist; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental

Equity

401k match

Unlimited PTO

Annual offsite

Early-exercise stock options

Parental leave

Job summary

Doist is looking for a skilled technical writer to build and run a content engine that enables a regular cadence of high-quality engineering content. You will design launch narratives with the Product team and transform engineering stories into compelling material for developers and stakeholders.

You’ll pull stories from engineers, interview teams, and write pieces that others in the community will reference. Expect to publish across blogs, video, docs, and talks with a distinctive point of view.

Qualifications

• 5+ years writing for a technical audience (dev/media/DevRel).
• Published work that traveled: Hacker News front page, quoted threads, etc.

Responsibilities

• Build and run the content engine to ship high-quality technical content.
• Design launch narratives with the Product team to reduce overhead with each release.
• Turn customer stories by interviewing engineering teams and writing compelling content.
• Set the bar for technical content: deep dives, benchmarks, teardowns, comparisons.
• Extend content beyond blog: video, YouTube, docs, changelog, talks.

Skills

Technical writing

Storytelling

Editorial judgment

Job description

What you’ll do

Build and run the content engine. We are constantly working on complex infrastructure problems and have a lot of features to launch this year, but there’s no machinery yet for turning launches and engineering work into content on a reliable cadence. Today that overhead falls on engineers and founders, which means it often doesn’t happen at all. You’ll build the machine and own the cadence, so a regular stream of high-quality technical content ships.

Design how we launch. We’re shipping several 0-to-1 products and features this year and each needs a narrative: the announcement, the docs‑adjacent explainers, the demos. You’ll work closely with the Product team to build up this playbook and reduce the overhead with every launch.

Turn customers into stories. We have engineering teams who cut their CI times by an order of magnitude. Find those stories, interview these teams and write compelling content that other engineers will naturally draw parallels to in their own work.

Set the bar for technical content in this category. Deep dives, benchmarks, teardowns, comparisons, the occasional argumentative essay. Things that get to the front page of Hacker News on merit.

Extend past the blog. Video, YouTube, docs, changelog, conference talks, the company account. Whatever format the story actually needs.

You’re a good fit if you

Have 5+ years writing for a technical audience - developer media, technical content marketing, DevRel, or engineering‑adjacent journalism.

Have published work that traveled: pieces that hit the front page of Hacker News, threads that got quoted, posts engineers send each other, or an audience you built yourself. We will ask for links to get to better know your style of writing.

Understand technical concepts deeply enough to present them credibly. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you’re genuinely curious about what we’re building and the wider market.

Can pull a story out of engineers who don’t think of themselves as storytellers. You can read a design doc or a pull request and come out with a thesis, and you ask questions to build a content piece.

Write with a point of view. We’d rather publish something arguable than something safe.

Are very online: you follow the right channels, know what’s moving through Hacker News, X, and developer social chatter, and catch things early. You have instincts about what will work and what won’t.

Work with autonomy. There’s no manager, no brief, no existing calendar. You’ll decide what’s worth writing.

Compensation and benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.


• Competitive base + equity.


• 401k match.


• Unlimited PTO.


• Annual offsite.


• Early‑exercise stock options


• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)