Technical Scriptwriter, Ahrefs

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Junior and Mid level

Boston

Office located in Cambridge, MA

Discoverability-focussed marketing platform

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Discoverability-focussed marketing platform

101-200 employees

B2BMarketingAnalyticsDigital Media

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Junior and Mid level

Boston

Office located in Cambridge, MA

101-200 employees

B2BMarketingAnalyticsDigital Media

Company mission

To deliver up to date breaking industry news coverage and original analysis to marketing professionals.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You can explain technical concepts (APIs, automation, AI models) clearly without being an engineer yourself
You've written for video before, you understand pacing, hooks, and how a script needs to serve the edit
You're a self-starter who doesn't wait for assignments, you notice what's happening in the market and come to the team with ideas
You're comfortable running your own tests and demos to validate what you're writing about (e.g. signing up for tools, running workflows, documenting results)
You have a good working knowledge of AI tools, how to use them to build small apps, streamline research, or pull together demos
You can work autonomously and make judgment calls about tone, depth, and structure without constant check-ins

Desirable

Experience writing or producing content about SEO, marketing tools or SaaS products
Familiarity with scripting or light coding (even just enough to understand what an API call does or how to automate a task)
A portfolio of technical explainer videos, tutorials, or demos you've scripted or produced

What the job involves

We're hiring a Technical Script Writer to join our video team in Cambridge, MA. You'll be writing scripts and voiceovers for our YouTube channel, specifically the technical videos our current team finds hardest to crack. Think: AI tool comparisons, automation workflows, testing every image generator on the market
As we branch deeper into AI, there's more than enough work, and we need someone who can translate complex concepts into clear, engaging scripts without dumbing them down. You'll also be a self-starter who stays plugged into the market, pitches video ideas, and helps shape what we cover next
Write scripts for technical YouTube videos, AI tools, automation demos, in-depth product tests
Run your own tests and experiments when a script requires hands-on validation (e.g. "I tested 12 AI writing tools — here's what actually works")
Write and record voiceover for higher-lift technical videos that require explaining APIs, workflows, or emerging AI concepts
Stay on top of the AI and marketing tool landscape, what's launching, what's overhyped, what our audience needs to know
Pitch video ideas to the team based on market trends, audience questions, and gaps in our coverage
Collaborate with video editors and producers to refine scripts based on visual storytelling needs
Use AI assistants and tools to speed up research, build small demos, or clarify technical details

Our take

Ahrefs' services are built for marketing professionals to get their websites to rank higher and get more traffic. Trusted by teams at Facebook, eBay, Linkedin, Adobe, Uber, and so on, Ahrefs is an all-in-one SEO toolset and provider of free educational materials for marketing professionals.

The Singapore-based start-up updates its index with the freshest backlinks on the internet every 15 minutes, and its crawler process up to 8 billion pages a day, making it the fifth most active crawler on the web. In 2022, the company invested resources into designing and building its own search engine called Yep. In doing so, Ahrefs was enabled to run its own search index, rather than relying on APIs on Google or Bing.

The start-up’s CEO has long been a critic of Google and the way it handles its data, with the company launching its own book on the building blocks of SEO back in 2023. It continues to bolster its offering with new features, for example custom AI prompt tracking for brand visibility, which was launched in 2026.