About the Job
Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level SEO Content Writer to help us educate the world on what Hercules is, how it works, and why it matters.
You will own Hercules’ SEO content engine end to end.
Identify the highest-value keywords and search opportunities to target
Key Responsibilities
e.g. "best AI app builder" or "hercules vs lovable" or "build a CRM"
Publish long-form content that is simple, accurate, clear, and useful
Monitor and optimize existing content until it ranks highly and drives traffic/signups/revenue
Automate your workflow with AI
Required Skills & Abilities
We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:
Writing quality: exceptional long-form writing ability. Our style is terse, simple, clear, convincing, authentic, and useful. We do not accept AI slop. Strong communication is a #1 requirement
SEO: strong understanding of search intent, content structure, on-page SEO, internal linking, content refreshes, and what it takes for content to rank
Commercial sense: write content that ranks AND converts the audience to paid customers
Technical fluency: familiarity with technical concepts like APIs, authentication, hosting, role based access control etc
AI leverage: able to truly 10x your workflow by using the frontier of AI tools well. We expect you to be able to product ~50+ high quality articles a month, if not more
Hercules’ operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of the principles can be learned on the job, however, we do specifically filter for the following principles in our hiring process:
We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.
We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work.
We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.
