Content Associate, Stack Overflow
+ Equity
Public Q&A platform for developers
Posted today
Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent writing and editing skills
- Strong understanding of SEO principles
- Familiarity with content management systems (CMS)
- Experience with social media platforms, including LinkedIn, X, and YouTube
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team; and the ability to meet the deadlines of both
- Strong analytical skills to measure content performance
- Knowledge of graphic design tools can be beneficial
Desirable
- An understanding of software and technology issues, particularly as they apply to developers
- An understanding of Stack Overflow, other Stack Exchange network sites, and Stack Overflow for Teams
- Experience with Hootsuite, Monday.com, Adobe, Canva, Google Analytics
What the job involves
- As part of the Communications & Content team, the content associate is responsible for creating, editing, and managing various types of content across a company's digital platforms, including website, blogs, podcasts, social media, and marketing materials, ensuring the content aligns with the brand voice, is accurate, and optimized for engagement and search engines, often collaborating closely with the larger marketing and demand gen teams to achieve these goals
- You will partner with members across the organization including senior Product, Research, Design, Engineering and community to create high-impact content that supports all lines of business at Stack Overflow
- You will also work with external partners to validate, define, and scope new ideas and content channels. Your work will help plot the course for Stack Overflow to become the most valuable destination for the world’s current and next generation of technologists
- Collaboration: Be part of a small cross-functional team tasked to tell the types of stories that interest and excite the world’s largest community of developers and technologists
- Sponsored Content Support: Help build a content roadmap, maintain a backlog of projects, and manage the priorities for your team's implementation, enhancement, and support of sponsored blog and podcast materials
- Content creation: Writing blog posts, articles, website copy, social media updates, email marketing content, and other relevant content formats
- Content editing and proofreading: Reviewing and revising content for accuracy, clarity, grammar, and style consistency
- Content optimization: Working closely with Demand Gen to ensure we are implementing SEO strategies to improve search engine ranking by using relevant keywords and meta descriptions
- Content calendar management: Planning and scheduling content releases across different platforms and supporting all Stack Overflow priorities
- Content analytics and reporting: Establishing and tracking key metrics like website traffic, social media engagement, and conversion rates (among others) to measure the effectiveness of content strategies
- Collaboration with stakeholders: Working with the larger marketing team and other departments to align content with overall company goals
- Research and trend analysis: Staying updated on industry trends and audience interests to develop relevant and engaging content. Leveraging market trends to identify potential ideas and disruptors and share them with leadership based on opportunity and/or threat
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This is taking the form of partnerships with Google Cloud to boost GenAI capabilities, growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its team's platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- Focus on well-being: We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- Out of state care: We will reimburse up to $5,000 annually for the participant undergoing treatment or a procedure considered unlawful within their home state, plus a companion
- Work where you want: We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- Work how you want: While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- Take care of loved ones: We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Keep learning & growing: Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement, professional development budget for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- Stay fit & have fun: We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- Stack Gives Back: We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company values
- Adopt a customer-first mindset: Authentically serve our customers by empowering, listening, and collaborating with our fellow Stackers
- Be flexible and inclusive: We do our best work when a diverse group of people collaborate in an environment of respect and trust. Create space for different voices to be heard, and allow flexibility in how people work
- Be transparent: Communicate openly and honestly, both inside and outside the company. Encourage transparency from others by being empathetic, reliable, and acting with integrity
- Empower people to deliver outstanding results: Give people space to get their job done, support them when they need it, and practice blameless accountability
- Keep community at our center: Community is at the heart of everything we do. Nurture healthy communities where everyone is encouraged to learn and give back
- Learn, share, grow: Adopt a Growth Mindset. Be curious and eager to learn. Aim for ethical, sustainable, long-term growth, both personally and in the company
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Previously a VP at Barclay's Investment Bank. They then worked their way through various senior-level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of Cloud and Infrastructure Services.
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