Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PostHog is a product analytics and engineering platform company seeking a Technical Content Writer. The role involves researching technical concepts, use cases, and engineering processes, then creating clear and useful content such as tutorials, technical explainers, engineering posts, and SEO content for developers.
Responsibilities
- Writing content that helps people and agents use PostHog better. Use case guides, tutorials, technical explainers, engineering posts. The stuff we know is valuable and haven't had the capacity to do as much as we want to
- Researching and explaining hard things. Technical details, engineering processes, and concepts that most people gloss over. Going deep enough that a builder actually learns something
- Figuring out what to write. Looking at what we are shipping as a company, what our priorities are, and what's interesting to decide yourself. There isn't going to be someone telling you what to write all the time
- Choosing the right format for the idea. Sometimes that's an engineering blog. Sometimes it's an SEO explainer. Sometimes it's a thread on X
- Working with engineers and other marketers. Getting the story of what they built, why it matters, and what's interesting about it for normal builders. You might edit their blog posts too
Skills
- A great writer who gets technical stuff – and loves figuring out how to explain it to other people
- Simply put, **you're a writer**. You care about the craft, have opinions about what makes technical content actually great, and have a portfolio that proves it
- The important bit is that you're curious enough to understand technical concepts properly and a good enough writer to explain them simply
- You're a strong writer. This is the most important requirement. You can take something complicated and make it clear, useful, and enjoyable to read. You're dedicated to the craft of writing. Every post here gets reviewed and we only publish things we're proud of. You need to share the same sentiment
- You've written technical content before. Your portfolio includes technical explainers, engineering posts, tutorials, or similar work for a developer audience – similar to the ones we want to write. Ideally, you've written these across styles, concepts, and mediums (SEO blogs, X threads)
- You're technically curious and capable. You don't need to be an engineer, but concepts like logs and traces, data warehouses, APIs, LLMs, and agents shouldn't scare you. You should be able to learn how something works and explain it accurately
- You have good taste. You know the difference between content that genuinely teaches someone something and content that exists because somebody wanted to rank for a keyword
- You're AI-pilled. You use AI in your own work to build cool things, improve your workflows, and help you write great content
- You work independently. There's rarely a queue of perfectly scoped assignments at PostHog. You'll need to decide what's worth writing, develop a point of view, and get it shipped
- Experience: Any (new grads ok)
- Visa: US citizen/visa only
- You've done this at a similar company. Developer tools, B2B SaaS, or anywhere with a technical audience. If you've written high-quality technical explainers for a company like ours before, you're exactly who we're looking for
- You ship things. Side projects, small tools, anything that means you've been on the other side of the docs you're writing
- You already use PostHog. Not necessary, but useful
- You don't need to be an engineer, but concepts like logs and traces, data warehouses, APIs, LLMs, and agents shouldn't scare you
- You don't need to be an engineer, but concepts like logs and traces, data warehouses, APIs, LLMs, and agents shouldn't scare you
- Not necessary, but useful
- If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you – we're happy to accommodate!
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