Content Lead

1kx is a venture investment firm that partners with forward-thinking founders, protocols, and communities to help grow the crypto ecosystem. We primarily lead seed and series A investment rounds with focus areas across infrastructure, consumer crypto, and middleware. We started in 2018 and have since been building a world-class platform to support our portfolio of 90+ companies, with the goal of being the most founder-friendly and helpful source of capital.

We are looking for an exceptional writer and storyteller to join the team as Content Lead. This role will be pivotal in enabling us to scale up our content production for the firm and as a support vector for our portfolio. The development and delivery of original content, from uncovering insights to crafting compelling narratives and synthesizing across relevant channels, including research reports, blogs, social media, and messaging. The ideal candidate has their finger on the pulse of crypto, is passionate about articulating and amplifying the work being done at the industry's forefront, and is skilled at transforming ideas into words.

We are a fully remote team with colleagues across North America, Europe, and Asia.

If you’re excited about supporting exceptional founders, believe in the opportunity for token networks to transform economic and social participation, and take pride in delivering excellence, you’ll fit right in.

What we offer:

• An opportunity to learn about the venture capital and crypto industries, gaining unique insights and access to the best network in crypto and web3
• A chance to work within a dynamic and global team of experts
• Independent work that favors self-starters
• Non-political, merit-based work culture
• Twice-yearly offsites uniting the entire team

What you offer:

• Proven experience as a writer and storyteller.
• Exceptional attention to detail and an analytical mind.
• Self-starter mentality with a proven ability to take initiative and operate with little oversight.
• Empathetic and ready to roll up your sleeves and work with entrepreneurs on all things content creation.
• Social marketing proficiency, understanding the audiences, and optimal strategies for channels such as X
• Ideally experience analyzing and interpreting data to uncover narratives.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate across the team and portfolio to develop new topic areas based on their areas of work and research to provide a creative, editorial POV on content.
• Manage and grow the editorial calendar & content pipeline, serving as a ghostwriter for the creation and publishing of new content, including press announcements, opinion pieces, newsletters, and research reports, working closely with the internal subject matter experts.
• Manage and implement our newsletter strategy.
• Develop an authentic brand voice and style guide to ensure recognizable identity and consistency across all communications.
• Social media content creation.
• Support other communications initiatives and goals as required.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.