mazehq - Staff Writer (Satire), the Exploit

• Real practitioner experience. You've worked in cybersecurity (SOC, IR, red team, GRC, security engineering or similar), AppSec or product security, cloud security, or software engineering. • Not a marketer. This role isn't for content or marketing people. If your LinkedIn headline includes the word "storyteller", we respect you, and this isn't the role. Marketers haven't lived the life (neither has the person writing this JD), and the jokes only work if they're real. • Funny on the page and on camera, not "has a good personality" funny. • Tight writing. You know what works and what to cut. Your grammar can be sub-par; that's the easiest thing to fix. • Never punches down. We laugh with the burnt-out CISO, not at them. Vendors are fair game, and that includes Maze: we run the Exploit and we make fun of ourselves too. • Reliable. You ship 5 articles and 5 videos a month without anyone chasing you, and you cut the weak ones yourself. • Comfortable being named publicly. Your byline goes on every article, and your name, image, voice and likeness appear in the videos we publish and promote, including paid ads. Anonymous accounts and pen names won't work for this role. We know some employers have concerns about this, so you can do the work after hours. • You can shoot and edit your own short-form video • You already post on X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or LinkedIn • 10 headlines. Your own, about security, AI or software, as they'd appear on the Exploit. We read all 10. • Video examples. Two or three short videos you've made, on any topic. If you haven't made videos before, record yourself telling one of the stories above in 30 seconds.