We’re Hiring a Humbly Confident Product Marketing Writer

About Us and Why We’re Hiring

We construct “You Want a Funds,” the most effective budgeting software program and academic assets round. (However folks within the know name us YNAB, which is pronounced “why-nab”). For greater than a decade, folks have been utilizing YNAB after which telling their associates what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our critiques on the app store, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous optimistic influence on folks’s lives.

Educating folks find out how to get management of their cash is what will get us up within the morning. Properly, that and a scorching beverage. We’re in search of a flexible Product Advertising Author to assist us train others concerning the life-changing energy of YNAB and all of its superior options.

You’re a pure author and collaborator—humorous and artistic—and also you’re at all times questioning how stuff works. You’ve additionally obtained a knack for turning technical converse into simply comprehensible metaphors—which your less-than-tech-savvy aunt loves you for. 

Not solely are you swift and mighty together with your pen, it is available in a pink ink selection too. Your enhancing prowess would make your Ninth-grade English trainer proud (this one’s for you, Mrs. Wilson!). You realize that writing is rewriting and welcome constructive suggestions with open arms. You thrive working in groups, and the time you get to collaborate with different folks within the firm is while you really feel most your self. You’re not shy to succeed in out to make clear, collect, collate, or supply concepts and suggestions irrespective of the function or division.

You may have a strong understanding of product advertising, copywriting on the internet, and technical writing within the software program house. In fact, you might be a superb author and editor, however much more than that you simply perceive that it’s the proper content material, for the best viewers, in the best context, that converts. 

You are taking tough drafts of copy—typically scribbled on a used serviette (simply kidding, we work remotely, we don’t mail one another used napkins) and provides it such a formidable spit shine and polish that the advertising and product groups will rapidly marvel how they ever obtained on with out you—releasing them as much as do what they do greatest—enhancing our product.

You may shift gears—weblog posts about new options, launch notes, in-app copy, emails, advert campaigns, newsletters, experiences, and perhaps even a script for TikTok or two—as a result of whatever the format, you’ll be able to crack your self up and nail the headline with out breaking a sweat. 

Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities)

• Not less than two years {of professional} writing expertise, ideally within the product house.
• Prolific and skilled author with a humorousness and expertise thriving beneath day by day deadline strain.
• Did we point out a humorousness? (As a result of should you haven’t already thought to your self how hilarious this job posting reads, nicely,…) 
• Unintimidated and energized on the prospect of cross-team collaboration to create enjoyable and new (and typically slightly bit critical) content material each week (the quantity relying on variables like story kind, size, complexity, climate, and so forth.).
• Glorious time administration abilities which make juggling—a number of initiatives, day by day, weekly and month-to-month deadlines, and an at all times altering assortment of story sorts—look straightforward.

That’s a super-brief intro to what you’ll be engaged on. However first, it is advisable to know should you’ll even like working with us. Let’s discuss a bit about life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into extra element about what we’re in search of. 

We’re worthwhile, bootstrapped, and rising. YNAB began in 2004 and we haven’t taken any outdoors funding—we’re in it for the lengthy haul. We’ve got one overarching requirement in relation to becoming a member of our staff: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to actually click on with you. Should you’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll most likely actually prefer it right here, and we are able to’t wait to listen to from you!

We dwell our Core Values each day at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We consider {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences are vital to our success, and we’re captivated with making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative setting for all workers. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a sensible, hard-working, and numerous staff who loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.

We additionally work actually exhausting, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we have been (humbly) proud to be named Fortune’s #1 Best Small Company to Work For for the final two years. We’ve got a staff filled with really distinctive folks—the type you’ll be excited to work with. We’d like to introduce you to a couple of them!

Who you’d be working with:

Lindsey & The Gang aka the Advertising Workforce aka only a rag-tag however lovable bunch of underdogs who defy the chances—making budgeting software program hilarious, emotional, and accessible—day in and time out. (Disney, are you listening?) 

We love musical theater, board video games, stand-up comedy, the Enneagram, video video games, and artwork, to various levels, relying on who you discuss to first. Our inside Slack channel is a lot enjoyable, it has a rising fanbase. 

Lindsey, our Head of Advertising, would be the first to delete one thing crucial, but additionally the primary to have a good time your wins—huge and small. Ryan, our Lead of Progress Advertising, will rapidly develop into your lifeline in any kind of bracketology-related emergency and even beneath website-launch-level-stress, he can sneak within the jokes that make you’re feeling like, “if Dad’s OK, we’ll all be OK.” There’s Reema, our Lead of Advertising Operations, who retains all of the balls within the air, whereas carrying many various hats, mainly, if there’s a want, yo, she’ll clear up it (and sure, that was a seamless incorporation of Vanilla Ice lyrics).

Rachel, our Content material Lead and writer-of-all-of-the-things spells prolific with a capital P…no she doesn’t…until it’s initially of a sentence. She’s what these within the sports activities world (don’t fear, there are solely three folks in all of YNAB who even pays consideration to sports activities) name a “generational expertise.” It’s like how Lebron James can shoot, rebound, block and take over a recreation, however her recreation is content material creation and technique and she or he DOES. IT. ALL. Additionally, you’ll be able to inform she didn’t write this as a result of it’s each not concise and it rambles a ton…which is the place you are available. Assist her, please!

Ashley, our Content material Advertising Author, has cracked the code to make our Google search outcomes sing our praises. Should you’re not laughing at her sharp wit and dry humor by the tip of a gathering, she should be on mute. However it’s not simply her unbelievable writing prowess that’ll wow you, she completely cranks on content material and also you’ll most likely enhance your writing VO2max simply by occupying the identical digital air house as her. Did we offer you sufficient causes to need to have a gathering with Ashley? Oh, right here’s yet another: cat Zoom bombs from her furry associates. Yeah, you’ll love her.

Kelly, our Product Advertising Supervisor. She is a compassionate trainer of the YNAB technique and precisely the individual you need in each assembly. Severely. No display sharing points ever, and she or he’s our in-house Zoom assembly DJ. She has the elusive reward of choosing the proper track each time. Catch Kelly in our dwell YouTube present, Enjoyable Cash! Be happy to ask her about her chickens.

Ingi, Hannah, Megan, Elena, Lee, Jacob, Caitlin, and Milène make up the leaders of our product staff, and these are the parents which have all of the balls within the air, color-coded, timed, and with a plan for what to do with the juggling balls 5 years from now. To say they’re good at life can be an understatement. They’re the honors college students of the corporate—at an organization of honors college students. All that to say, you’ll be crafting copy for some sensible cookies on product options and crossing paths fairly a bit. The most effective type of crossing. Criss crossing, Applesauce-ing with a scoop of ice cream on the facet.

How You’ll Work at YNAB

Now that you simply’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s discuss extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:

Dwell The place You Need

We’ve at all times been a completely distant staff, and have folks all around the world. For this explicit place, nonetheless, we’re in search of somebody inside +/- two hours of Central Customary Time (UTC-6), as a result of excessive quantity of synchronous coordination wanted with the Advertising and Product groups. Anyplace inside these time zones is okay, although. Simply ensure you have a dependable web connection.

No Outrageous Hours

We wish everybody to have a full life outdoors of YNAB, and we seldom work greater than 40 hours per week. There have been just a few events the place issues obtained busy and other people needed to put some further time in. However then they took some further time without work, so all of it balances out. We work exhausting and sensible, however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.

Take Trip (Severely)

We wish you to take trip. Actually, we have now a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per 12 months. 5 weeks feels about proper (plus two further weeks for our company-wide December break). It’s necessary to get loads of downtime and get out and do one thing. We’ll sit up for seeing footage of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!

The YNAB Retreat

When the pandemic isn’t retaining us from touring, we get the groups collectively every year to atone for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Finest Western convention room. Simply kidding. Thus far, we’ve carried out Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seaside home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most lately, Laguna Beach. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a staff and firm. Yearly, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the 12 months forward collectively.

Up Your Recreation

We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. We finances for it (hey-o!). Suppose conferences, on-line programs and subscriptions, devoted time away from work to study one thing new… it’s actually as much as you and your supervisor. However we like to see our folks rising.  

U.S. or Worldwide? Nice!

Our staff is unfold all around the world, together with Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, the UK, and all around the United States. We presently arrange staff members who dwell within the U.S. or U.Ok. as workers, and people who dwell in different nations as impartial contractors. You’re an equal a part of the staff irrespective of the place you reside!

As talked about, we have now a while zone restrictions for this function, however so long as you’re inside +/- two hours of Central Customary Time (UTC-6), we’re good!

Advantages

Should you dwell within the U.S., you’ll be eligible for our well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No must examine your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though should you did must examine your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve obtained you coated!

We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(okay) choice. YNAB matches your contributions as much as six p.c, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom price construction attainable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds obtainable are implausible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) 

Aggressive Compensation

The beginning wage vary for this place is $63,000-$75,000 yearly. We contemplate raises yearly, and have a bi-annual profit-share bonus. YNAB wins, you win—that type of factor.

Different Tidbits

• When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING approach) that you simply fill out your “Bucket Checklist” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s tougher than it sounds!) 
• The bucket listing actually helps in deciding what we should always offer you to your birthday and the vacations.
• We’re all adults. There’s no must punch a clock, or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We have a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
• We wish you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a shiny new pc and exchange it each three years.
• Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in folks’s lives? You could not suppose that issues a lot, however then just a few months down the highway you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually pleasurable. Don’t underestimate this one!

If this seems like your perfect setting, learn on as a result of now we need to speak about you, and the way you’ll play an enormous half in altering folks’s lives.

Apply Now

Now, again to you, our new Product Advertising Author….

Our product staff is cranking out options (perhaps you’ve seen?), and we need to give these releases the absolute best content material foot ahead. Contemplating the dimensions of our present staff, we pump out a outstanding quantity of content material, however we’re in search of a pointy, inventive, curious storyteller to assist us inform the story of our product and new options.

If you find out about a brand new characteristic your mind instantly begins churning out concepts and ways in which we are able to train, brag (humbly in fact), and present it off to our loyal followers. You’re keen to fulfill with everybody concerned with the brand new characteristic to develop into an professional earlier than you write about it, together with designers, help specialists, product managers, and the content material staff. This recurrently occurs earlier than that characteristic is even absolutely practical. 

You’ve obtained an optimizer’s mind and are at all times working via a faster, quicker, or clearer approach to enhance a course of. You’re fluent with our present clients and in some way handle to thrill new ones on the identical time.

Some stuff you is likely to be doing at YNAB:

• Splash new options with fascinating and informative weblog posts.
• Write and curate the weekly publication for a faithful and engaged viewers.
• Crank out intelligent and typically hilarious launch notes to maintain our standing as probably the most chuckle-worthy-yet-informative launch notes on the market.
• Craft easy but surprisingly elegant in-app messages.
• Collaborate on emails and nail the topic line each time.
• Assist the product advertising staff to lend your writing and storytelling experience to their efforts.
• Act as a backup for our Product Advertising Supervisor in staff communications and documentation.

You’re our perfect candidate should you:

• Have no less than 2 years {of professional} product writing expertise with a portfolio that showcases hitting day by day or near-daily publication deadlines. 
• Have expertise explaining technical ideas in an easy-to-understand format.
• Can nail the YNAB voice, but additionally have a definite voice all your individual. 
• Excel at juggling a number of initiatives and timelines at any given second, and switching gears retains you contemporary and stimulated.
• Make us snigger. 
• Handle your time exceptionally nicely and are comfy working remotely. 
• Are extremely organized, versatile, and collaborative. Your day will get higher when you’ll get to fulfill and work with different staff members on a undertaking.
• Are self-motivated and pushed by nature, perhaps even slightly aggressive. 
• Keep laser-focused on the massive image, with out dropping sight of each. final. element. 
• Are wildly productive and impartial, however a staff participant at coronary heart. 
• You may have a robust curiosity in cash administration and budgeting. You don’t must be a budgeting professional or something—we’ll enable you to get there earlier than it, however we would like your enthusiasm to trickle into our options content material. 

How you can Apply

• Apply under by 11:59PM PST on Sunday, January Ninth, 2022. Agency. It’s an actual deadline. The type you like.
• Connect a PDF of your cowl letter. In your cowl letter:
  • Please introduce your self and clarify why this place pursuits you and why you’ll be an awesome match. Cowl letters are supposed to promote, so promote us!
  • Embrace a paragraph that tells us what you suppose the good YNAB characteristic is and why.
• Connect a PDF resume. Should you don’t have a resume since you aren’t even positive you’re seeking to change jobs, that’s superb! A casual overview of your work and schooling historical past are all we’re in search of.
• Please tell us if you need to reveal a necessity for lodging in reference to the recruitment and hiring course of. In that case, contact us at [email protected] and point out within the topic line that you simply’re making use of for the Product Advertising Author function.
• Word: although we all know it’s customary in some nations, we’d favor should you didn’t share a headshot in your utility supplies. Thanks!

We’re excited to listen to from you!

P.S. We’ll ship you a affirmation e-mail when you apply. Please add that e-mail to your secure sender listing, to make sure that future emails come via. (Should you don’t obtain it, please examine your Promotions inbox, junk folder, or any filters you’ll have arrange.)

P.P.S. Should you’re not eager about or obtainable for this place, however know somebody who’s, we’d actually admire it should you handed this alongside!

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