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Contract SME & Content Editor for dev tools & cloud infrastructure content

- Part-time contractor

- 5–10 hours/week

- $80–$200/deliverable (DOE)

We're looking for subject matter experts with hands-on dev tools & cloud infrastructure marketing experience to help us ensure our content reflects how practitioners actually think, buy, and talk. You won't be editing for grammar; you'll be editing for credibility, accuracy, and resonance with the buyers our clients are trying to reach.

What You'll Do:

- Review, fact-check, and edit AI-assisted and human-written content drafts for technical accuracy and buyer authenticity, catching the details that only someone with developer marketing experience would know to flag.

- Push back on passages that don’t reflect how developers think or speak, and edit it to something that what would land better.

- Put in stronger angles, examples, use cases, and proof points that are grounded in how technical buyers actually evaluate and purchase software.

- Ensure content connects product value to the real pain points of our clients’ customers, not just surface-level keyword coverage.

- Collaborate async with our editorial team to elevate drafts from competent to genuinely credible.

Full JD with instructions on how to apply in the comments!

Posted by: John-Henry Scherck

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Hiring For: Contract SME + Content Editor for Dev Tools & Cloud Infrastructure

Part-time contractor | 5–10 hours/week | $80–$200/deliverable (DOE)

We're looking for subject matter experts with hands-on dev tools & cloud infrastructure marketing experience to help us ensure our content reflects how practitioners actually think, buy, and talk. You won't be editing for grammar; you'll be editing for credibility, accuracy, and resonance with the buyers our clients are trying to reach.

What You'll Do

• Review, fact-check, and edit AI-assisted and human-written content drafts for technical accuracy and buyer authenticity, catching the details that only someone with developer marketing experience would know to flag.
• Push back on passages that don’t reflect how developers think or speak, and edit it to something that what would land better.
• Put in stronger angles, examples, use cases, and proof points that are grounded in how technical buyers actually evaluate and purchase software.
• Ensure content connects product value to the real pain points of our clients’ customers, not just surface-level keyword coverage.
• Collaborate async with our editorial team to elevate drafts from competent to genuinely credible.

What We're Looking For

• Deep, hands-on developer content marketing experience. You've worked in, marketed to, or built products for developers. Think: former product marketer, solutions engineer, practitioner, content manager or industry analyst. This is not a role for generalist editors.
• You can tell the difference between content that sounds right and content that is right for a developer audience, and you can articulate exactly why something doesn't land.
• You're fluent in how developers think, what they care about, and what makes them trust a piece of content.
• You can spot when content misrepresents concepts like CI/CD pipelines, feature flagging, API design, or containerization in ways that would undermine credibility with an engineering audience.
• Strong editorial instincts: specific, actionable edits rather than vague suggestions.
• Comfortable working async, hitting deadlines, and communicating clearly in a remote environment.
• Bonus: familiarity with SEO, content strategy, or LLM-driven content workflows.

About Growth Plays

Growth Plays is a 10-person marketing agency helping some of the most well known brands in software and AI engineering win market share and grow pipeline with content. We don't do fluff, filler, or keyword soup. We build high-performance content systems that drive results.

We're a small but mighty team that combines AI workflows with human expertise to help our clients outthink the competition.

How to Apply

Email [click apply] with:

• A brief note that goes over your relevant background and why you are qualified for the contract.
• 2–3 samples of B2B writing, editing, or content work in your domain (edited drafts, bylined articles, etc.)
• Your availability in hours/week or month

Interview Process

1. Paid Assessment: Edit 1 draft in your area of expertise ($150 flat rate)
2. Intro Call with AT (Operations Manager)
3. If it's a fit, we'll start assigning projects immediately