Staff Writer (Satire), the Exploit

Job description

Summary of the Role the Exploit ( theexploit.co ) is the security and tech industry's most trusted source of news that didn't happen. It's a satirical publication from Maze , an AI-native security company, covering the breaches, vendor launches, board meetings, AI news and compliance audits that are hilarious and totally made up, even when they don't feel like it. We're hiring two satire content creators who can write a story and then turn it into a video. Each story runs as an article on the Exploit, then becomes a short social video, usually a 30- to 90-second news segment. If you can shoot and edit the video yourself, that's a big plus. If you can't, your scripts need to be good enough that we'll happily make them for you. We'll take a great writer with no camera over a great camera with nothing to say. Two formats we like: Matt Johansen's security news recaps , where one person covers one story fast with some comedy in it, and Ev Hand , who covers sports news in the article style we're after. Some of our top articles, so you can see what works: French Locksmith Named Claude Launches Line of Padlocks; Cybersecurity Stocks Lose $18 Billion Judge Sentences CISO to 8 Consecutive Hours on RSA Expo Floor Meta Labs Proudly Announces Its AI Has Also Committed a Felony Burnt-Out CISO Forced to Decline Michelin-Starred Round Table Dinner Riot Breaks Out at Corporate Headquarters After Security Team Introduces Shift Left Your Contributions to Our Journey Writing Pitch and write 400- to 700-word articles in the deadpan voice of a real newsroom covering an unreal industry Pitch a lot of headlines and work them through with our team. The pieces are yours; we're there to keep the quality high. Video Write, and ideally shoot and edit, short news-desk videos Turn our best articles into video, and pitch video-first stories of your own Ideas Test new formats, characters and recurring bits instead of repeating whatever worked last week Bring material from your day job, with names changed to protect the guilty What You Need to Be Successful 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 i…