Director of Content

🧠 About Cortex

Cortex is the enterprise Internal Developer Portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Customers like Blackstone, Xero, and Fanatics use Cortex to abstract away complexity for developers with a single interface for all their engineering tools, templates, and tasks. By providing a clear view into the health and state of every software component, Cortex helps engineering teams drive progress to goals, optimize productivity, reduce technical debt, and build efficient software and teams.

📍Location

We’re fully remote and welcome candidates from anywhere in the US! We have all-company offsites a few times a year where we fly the whole team out to meet in person, build stronger relationships, kick off important projects, and have fun!

🤝 The Team

We are a mighty group of ~100 passionate individuals excited about building a product that developers love. We recently raised $60M in Series C Funding led by Scale Ventures (with participation from Sequoia, IVP, and others) to build the future of developer experience. You can read more about it here.

💼 Job Summary

We’re looking for a Director of Content to lead Cortex’s content marketing strategy and execution. In this role, you’ll own the development of our content across all major channels, including our blog, social media, podcasts, and external speaking engagements. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining our editorial calendar, shaping our brand voice, and ensuring Cortex shows up consistently and credibly in front of technical audiences.

💻 Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Cortex content strategy, spanning blog, social, lifecycle campaigns, and internal storytelling
• Lead our internal content development efforts including cross-functional stakeholders and external contractors
• Translate complex product capabilities and technical workflows into clear, compelling content
• Work with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams to spotlight new features, customer wins, and use cases
• Ghostwrite for company leadership and Cortex subject matter experts across external channels
• Maintain a strong editorial calendar that reflects company priorities and drives brand awareness
• Collaborate with Design to bring content to life visually across channels
• Uphold Cortex’s brand voice and tone, and ensure consistency across all touchpoints
• Measure and iterate on content performance to optimize for reach and engagement

✔️Qualifications 

• 4–6+ years of experience in content marketing, editorial, or technical writing — ideally in developer tools, infrastructure, or productivity software
• A strong portfolio of writing that demonstrates clarity, technical fluency, and editorial range
• Experience creating content across formats: blogs, social posts, emails, product updates, etc.
• Ability to quickly learn and distill technical concepts for a range of audiences
• Comfortable interviewing engineers, customers, and teammates to inform content
• Strong project management skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities
• Self-starter mindset with a bias toward ownership and execution

🌴 Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100%!)
• Fully covered life insurance
• $400 monthly perks stipend 
• $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
• 401k plan
• Pet Insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote & flexible working hours
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• All-Company Retreats (previously San Diego, Miami, Austin, New York City)

✏️ Noteworthy

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay for this role starts between $198,000 and $230,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for equity and benefits.

Cortex is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Cortex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please email [email protected]