Why Estuary Is the Place to Be
Join us at a pivotal moment: we’re building the content engine to help define Estuary’s voice in the data/engineering world. As our Content Marketing Manager, you won’t just execute, you’ll invent. You’ll help us tell stories, shape narratives, and grow a community of advocates.
At Estuary, you’ll enjoy:
Ownership & autonomy: define and scale the content function from the ground up
Impact at scale: your work will directly touch brand, demand, product, and community
A mission-driven, high-caliber team where curiosity, grit, and high standards win
Transparent compensation, equity in the company, and benefits to support your whole life
Flexibility: fully remote, asynchronous-friendly, occasional team offsites
Your Mission (What You’ll Own)
You’ll be the architect of how Estuary’s story gets told. Here’s how:
Strategy & Storytelling
Develop and maintain a content strategy & editorial calendar aligned with positioning, GTM pillars, and roadmap priorities.
Work with leadership to define content themes, pillars, and key message frameworks.
Surface and translate technical differentiators, customer wins, and research insights into resonant narratives.
Creation & Production
Write, edit, and manage high-quality content: blog posts, case studies, whitepapers, ebooks, email campaigns, landing pages, thought leadership, product collateral.
Commission and manage external writer/agency partners, ensuring quality, tone, and deadlines
Partner with product, engineering, sales, and customer success to co-create content, collate technical inputs, and iterate
Ensure all content is strategically optimized for SEO, keywords, and search intent.
Distribution & Amplification
Own content distribution and syndication strategy across web, newsletters, social, and partner channels
Collaborate with demand gen & SEO leads to optimize content for discoverability and conversion.
Build and manage relationships with media, influencers, analysts, community leaders, and partners to co-promote and syndicate content.
Identify content repurposing opportunities (e.g., turning reports into webinars, podcasts, infographics)
Social & Community
Lead Estuary’s social strategy (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, YouTube, etc.) — ideate campaigns that spark conversation, awareness, and engagement
Monitor performance metrics, run A/B tests, learn fast, optimize
Engage directly with our community (forums, Slack, open source channels), encourage UGC, and spotlight voices.
Manage and execute content publishing on key channels like LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and technical forums (e.g., Hacker News, Reddit).
Metrics & Growth
Define KPIs and success metrics (e.g., pipeline influenced, MQLs from content, engagement growth, domain authority)
Build dashboards and reporting to show impact and guide decisions.
Conduct quarterly content retros and planning cycles — which themes resonated, where to double down.
What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months In)
A robust, scalable content calendar with multiple content pillars driving new thought leadership
Measurable growth in content-driven pipeline and lead velocity
Increased domain authority, SEO traffic, and share of voice
Expanded social presence (followers, engagement) and community momentum
Strong cross-functional alignment such that content becomes a core driver of product launches, sales enablement, and customer retention
What We're Looking For
Must-haves / Required Experience
4–6+ years in B2B content marketing, ideally in enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, developer tools, or technical domains
Proven track record of turning complex technical topics into explicit, compelling content for multiple audiences (executive, technical, practitioner)
Experience owning content distribution, social media, and amplification with measurable brand/pipeline impact
Comfortable working across functions (product, engineering, sales, CS) and distilling technical input into narrative form
Strong self-starter, hands-on, willing to roll up sleeves and scale systems
Comfort with ambiguity and moving fast; ability to juggle strategy + execution
Ideally, prior startup experience (you know how to do more with less)
Nice-to-haves / Differentiators
Experience in the data/analytics/infrastructure space
Experience building or growing a content team/function
Podcast, video, or multimedia content experience
Experience in open source or developer communities
Analytics/SEO chops (e.g., proficiency with tools like Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SEMrush)
Reporting, Growth & Collaboration
Reports to: Head of Marketing
Works closely with: Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Design, and Exec leadership
Potential growth path: Lead content (and eventually a small team), content + comms lead, head of marketing
What You’ll Love (Perks & Culture)
Competitive salary + meaningful equity
Flexible work, unlimited PTO
Remote-first, async culture
In-person retreats/offsites
Investment in your growth (conferences, training, tools)
A team that values transparency, radical ownership, and learning from mistakes
We’re excited to see how you’ll help bring Estuary’s story to life.