VC Writer @ First Round Capital in San Francisco, CA

VC Stack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

VC Stack in San Francisco is looking for a Writer to join the Reach team. In this role, you will write significant pieces for The Review, manage content publishing, and participate in podcast production. Candidates should have strong writing skills across formats, an analytical mindset for performance tracking, and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers.

This position requires at least three days a week in-office work, ensuring close teamwork and dynamic engagement within the content team. Ideal candidates will have experience in creating captivating stories relevant to startup founders.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to write across various formats including articles, emails, and social posts.
• Experience in analyzing performance data and iterating on work.
• Ability to work collaboratively with designers and videographers.

Responsibilities

• Write and publish 2-5k word pieces on The Review.
• Promote content across relevant platforms.
• Participate in and own podcast episodes.
• Source stories and manage drafts from freelancers.

Skills

Writing long-form content

Social media promotion

Audience engagement

Research skills

Project management

Job description

About First Round

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

About the Reach Team

We’re looking to add a Writer to our Reach team.

Our goal on the First Round Reach team is to scalably reach startup founders & operators by establishing First Round and our Partnership as the trusted resource for tactical best practices on founding, operating and scaling a startup. We believe there is powerful, untapped knowledge that can transform the way people build technology — and we share it by consistently producing content on the First Round Review and In-Depth podcast.

About the Writer Role

Your core role as Writer will include:

• Write 2-5k word pieces on The Review. To create these pieces, you’ll use transcripts from interviews, our archive of articles and conduct original research — then work with a combination of our editor and the subject / subject’s comms team to refine and approve the piece.
• Own publishing and promotion of your work end-to-end. Publishing includes working with a graphic designer to create images, uploading to our CMS, cross-publishing across relevant platforms and more. Promotion includes writing multi-platform social copy, email newsletters and testing and optimizing the distribution of your work.
• Participate in — and eventually own specific episodes — of our podcast. You’ll sit in on tapings, work with our agency to edit episodes and handle promotion and distribution (including guiding the agency to create thumb-stopping clips for social). When you own specific episodes, you’ll research and create detailed prep documents and questions to ensure a guided and impactful conversation.
• Be an integral member in the growth of First Round’s content. This includes: sourcing stories and editing drafts from freelancers, creating newsletters and writing lifecycle emails, and testing and learning the best ways to reach the right audience with the right content at the right time.

You could be a great Writer at First Round if:

• You’re a writer, through and through. Words have been central to your career and you know how to wield them to create impact across different formats. While you might spike in long-form narrative, you’ve written conversion-oriented email copy and pithy social posts — demonstrating a command of the story you’re telling and an understanding of how to use language to tell it, no matter what you’re writing or its platform.
• You learn by testing and iterating quickly. Once your work is out in the world, the journey is just beginning. You want to see performance data, identify patterns, and evolve your work based on learnings.
• You bring a no-job-is-too-small mindset to your work. Excellent marketing work is just the part of the iceberg that people see; you are invigorated by all the parts people don’t see. You have an owner’s mentality, guiding a project end-to-end from conception to project management to launch to post-launch analysis.
• You have an artist’s eye for images and video. While you won’t be creating visuals yourself, you’ll be working with designers and videographers to bring them to life. You know how to complement your written work with striking images and video, using them to entice readers, convey specific messages, and more.
• You know — or can learn — what’s interesting to startup founders and operators. Or maybe you’ve been one of these people yourself! You know how to sniff out and create the stories that will resonate with this audience (and all its sub-audiences) and tell them in compelling, actionable ways.

Please note this role is based in San Francisco and requires at least 3 days per week in-office.