airgarage - In-House Journalist
Requirements
• You've worked as a journalist, editor, or researcher, or you've done editorial work that holds up next to someone who has (4-8+ Years of Experience preferred). You can share published work that proves you find stories other people miss. • You're comfortable in a dataset. You don't need to be an analyst, but you can look at data, notice the anomaly, and know whether it's a story or a data entry error. • You're a strong interviewer. You prepare, you listen, you ask the follow-up question, and you get people to say the interesting thing instead of the safe thing. • You write clean, direct prose, and you can shift registers: longform feature, data report, LinkedIn post, media pitch. • You use AI tools and want to learn more and build workflows with them, not resist them. You think about AI as a tool, not a replacement for your judgment. • You're commercially minded. You understand that this content exists to generate brand awareness and demand. • You're scrappy. This is a build-it-yourself role at a startup. • Coverage or beat experience in commercial real estate, proptech, mobility, cities, or business/finance • Experience pitching or working with earned media • Experience growing audiences of LinkedIn or other social platforms • Familiarity with SEO fundamentals and how AI search engines cite sources
Responsibilities
• Own our publication. Build and run a high-production-value owned publication on a monthly or quarterly cadence. Each edition anchors on something nobody else has: a standout interview, an original data finding, a story from inside the industry. You own the the reporting, the writing, and the production. • Run the data report program. Turn our proprietary parking data into a recurring quarterly report that earns coverage and drives leads. Design the program so AI handles the heavy lifting on analysis and production, with your editorial judgment on what the story is and why it matters. • Interview people worth listening to. Identify the most interesting people in commercial real estate, parking, mobility, and urban policy. Convince them to talk to you. Conduct interviews that produce quotes and insights people share. • Earn media coverage. Package our data findings and stories into pitches journalists actually open. Build relationships with reporters covering CRE, proptech, and cities. You don't need a PR background, but you need to know what makes something newsworthy because you've been on the receiving end of bad pitches. Even better if you can create workflows that help automate the minutiae of outreach. • Run founder and company social. Turn interviews, data findings, and company stories into content for our CEO's LinkedIn and company channels. You'll have a transcript pipeline and AI tooling to work from; your job is making it sound like a person, not a brand. • Contribute to SEO and GEO content. Write content and help design systems that help us rank in search engines and gets cited by LLMs, grounded in the same original data and reporting as everything else you make. You’ll have a more technical partner here.
Benefits
• Please review this section before applying. We are sharing this information up front because we don't expect this job to be appealing to everybody and we do not want to waste your time if you are not on board with all of the following. • Below are some of the reasons you might not want this job: • You want a strict 9-5. We work long hours at AirGarage, including nights and occasional weekends, because we love what we do. • You don’t operate quickly. We work at a fast pace and value iteration and experimentation. • You need a fully built playbook. This is the first editorial hire, so you'll be creating the publication, the repeatable data program, and the processes, not inheriting them. • You only want to write. This role includes pitching journalists, sourcing and convincing interview subjects, and running founder/company social—a lot of the job is hustle, not just prose. • You're uncomfortable with data. Finding the story in a spreadsheet is half the job. • You want to stay behind the byline. You'll be reaching out cold to experts and reporters and representing AirGarage publicly. • You want to be part of a large content team. The person in this role will be responsible for editorial and content. • IMPORTANT NOTE 🚨 • AirGarage is a remote-first company, but we also value in-person collaboration to strengthen trust and teamwork. Team members should expect ~6 weeks of travel per year for: • 2–3 full company offsites, “Remote Weeks” • Lending a hand to support one new location launch • In-person onboarding as well as supporting other onboarding sessions for new team members • The rest of the year, team members can work remotely from wherever (US time zones) they’re most comfortable as long as they are performing well in their role. Attendance at in-person events throughout the year is expected—if you’re not open to traveling ~6 weeks per year for work, our team won't be a good fit for you. • 📈 Equity: Have a stake in the business that you’re helping to build and grow. • 🌴 Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like! We believe in folks working where they are happiest and most productive. We currently hire teammates that are located anywhere within North America. • 🏥 Health insurance: We offer health insurance and currently cover 85% of the cost of medical, dental, and vision plans for the primary employee and 50% of the cost of plans for dependents. • 🍼 Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. The 12 weeks can be taken as a continuous leave or intermittently over the first 18 months of the child's life. • 💻 Home office setup: Get a laptop + additional equipment needed to set you up for success. • ⛺ Time to recharge: We have an unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year. • 🤑 401k: Make financial planning right for you with a 401k retirement savings program. • ✈️ Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year our team comes together for a full week in places like Tahoe, Charleston, San Diego, Park City, and Austin. • 📚 BookGarage: Our team loves to learn and grow together, so join us for our optional recurring book club. • 🪴Room to grow: Our team will be orders of magnitude larger within a few years; as a part of our foundational team, you'll have opportunities to grow with us.
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