About the opportunity

Ontra is seeking a Marketing Communications Writer to join our rapidly growing company and contribute to a world-class marketing and content strategy! The Marketing Communications Writer will play a foundational role in supporting the company's content and demand generation departments. This is a great opportunity for someone who specializes in writing for marketing communications and wants to help drive the company’s marketing strategy by working alongside functional leads to create high quality content across all stages of the buyer’s journey. This person is an exceptional writer that can successfully manage the full cycle of content—long-form and short-form—from ideation to execution and create content designed to turn prospects into customers.

The Marketing Communications Writer will report directly to the Director of Corporate Communications at Ontra and we are open to great candidates across the U.S.*.

Important: our preference is to make a full-time, permanent hire, but we are open to candidates with an interest in contracting and contract-to-hire as well.

What you’ll do

• Content Creation: Ideate and draft content lead for new whitepapers, industry trends reports, blog posts, company newsletters, and emails by collaborating with internal teams on development and execution of content strategies that advance business objectives.
• Ad-hoc requests: Handle one-off requests from different departments to help aid with attorney and employee recruitment campaigns.
• Optimization: Partner with marketing operations and digital marketing to optimize content across the digital journey.
• Reporting: Measure content KPIs on a monthly basis with respect to month over month growth and high level performance for senior management.

What you’ll bring

• Experience: 2-5 years of content writing experience, preferably in a SaaS environment
• Written Communication: Able to write at a high level across a variety of marketing materials including whitepapers, blog posts, emails, and newsletters
• Detail oriented: Attention to detail while creating new content, interviewing subject matter experts, and aligning content deadlines with existing marketing programs
• Collaborative: Ability to work cross functionally and especially with sales/account management teams
• Technical expertise: SEO-savvy; experience using data to analyze content consumption patterns and adjust content strategy accordingly along with the ability to use a content management system
• Exceptional storytelling skills: Expert understanding of how to craft and evolve narratives
• Deadline-driven: Highly organized and can manage projects across a variety of personas and mediums