--- title: 'Brand Communications Manager at Ahrefs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/brand-communications-manager-ahrefs-cambridge-d54215xrg7rw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Brand Communications Manager at Ahrefs - **Company:** Ahrefs - **Location:** Cambridge, MA / Palo Alto, CA / Singapore / Tokyo, Japan - **Posted:** 2026-10-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ahrefsjobs/jobs/6227789004 ## Job description Be the voice of one of the best-known brands in marketing. Ahrefs helps marketers get their brands found online, in search, in AI answers and on social. Our tools run on the largest search and AI datasets on the web. We’ve been bootstrapped and profitable for fifteen years, with no investors and no board, and we have offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Palo Alto and Cambridge (MA). The product has a big reputation, and we want every word around it to live up to that. Up to now, copy at Ahrefs has been something talented people do alongside their main job. We want someone for whom it is the main job. The job You’ll be the voice of Ahrefs. You’ll decide how we sound and what we say about ourselves, write much of it yourself, and get every team using it. The homepage, a banner ad, a renewal email and a booth wall should all sound like the same company. When someone here wants to know how to say something better, they’ll come to you. ## What you’ll do - The website. Homepage, tool pages, comparison pages, ad landing pages, and the scripts for the explainer videos on them. - Campaigns. Concepts, headlines, banners and video scripts for our advertising. - Customer messages. Product emails and in-app notifications, the kind people read rather than archive. - Print and events. Brochures, flyers, and the copy on our booth walls. - The stage. Shape the message in our team’s conference talks, including keynotes at Ahrefs Evolve. - Social. Work with our social media lead so a post and a landing page sound like they came from the same place. - Positioning and messaging. Decide the core story for the company and each product, write it down, and get other teams to adopt it. You’re probably right for this if - Writing copy is what you do best, and most of your career has gone into it: campaigns, websites, product emails, scripts. - You’re hands-on. You’d rather write it yourself than brief someone else to. You can turn a banner headline around the same day you’re halfway through a homepage rewrite, and you like having both on the go. - You can show us your work. Real, published copy, and you can tell us exactly which parts you wrote. - You know when to be funny and when to get straight to the point. - You pick up technical products quickly, and can explain them to experts without dumbing them down. You don’t need to know SEO. - You’ve owned a brand voice or positioning before, and got teams who didn’t report to you to use it. - You’ll argue for a word with a CMO, and let go of the ones that don’t matter. Good to have - UX writing or product marketing experience. - Video scripts and speechwriting. - Comfortable enough in Figma or a CMS to fix your own copy in place. Why Ahrefs? We believe in giving smart people real ownership and not micromanaging them. You’ll own how Ahrefs sounds, everywhere, and shape how millions of marketers see the brand. We value honesty, results and simple solutions over complicated ones, and you’ll work with a smart, low-ego team where your words make a real difference. Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third-party recruitment providers for the roles we hire for. If we need help, we’ll let you know. Location: Singapore, Tokyo, Palo Alto (CA) or Cambridge (MA). On-site; you’ll need the right to work in the office you choose. Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third party recruitment solutions for the roles we hire for. If at any point we need help, we'll let you know! ## About Ahrefs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ahrefs is a bootstrapped SaaS marketing platform that helps brands become discoverable online through AI-powered SEO and marketing intelligence tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped) - **Headquarters**: Singapore (Marina One East Tower, 7 Straits View, #08-02, Singapore 018936) - **Founded**: Not publicly available (references to “15 years of crawling the web” suggest ~2010) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Marketing intelligence, SEO, AI-driven search & content marketing - **Target customers**: B2B – marketers, SEO professionals, content teams, agencies (44% of Fortune 500 use Ahrefs) - **Mission or purpose**: “First do it, then do it right, then do it better” – helping people see and be seen on the web; making brands discoverable and unmissable online. ## Products & Services - **Ahrefs AI Marketing Platform**: An all-in-one suite for planning, publishing, getting discovered, measuring, and optimizing online presence. Backed by 15 years of web crawl data and AI capabilities. - **Agent A**: An AI marketing agent with unrestricted access to Ahrefs’ full dataset and pre-built “skills” trained by the Ahrefs team. Supports switching between Claude, Gemini, and other models. - **Yep Search**: A separate search engine product (mentioned on the tech page). - **Core SEO Tools** (inferred from platform): Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Content Explorer, Rank Tracker, Webmaster Tools – all powered by a massive proprietary web crawl (170 trillion links, 41.9 billion keywords, 400 million domains indexed). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, no external funding) - **Key Metric**: User growth – 19,715 users joined in the last 7 days (as of mid-2025); 44% of Fortune 500 companies use Ahrefs. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: None – fully bootstrapped. - **Growth Signals**: Rapid AI product launch (Agent A), expanding from SEO into broader marketing intelligence, large-scale infrastructure (170T links, 41.9B keywords), global user base across 143 teammates and 26 locations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Bootstrapped independence**: No investor pressure, full control over product direction and long‑term vision. - **Proprietary crawl infrastructure**: In‑house systems crawled the entire web for 15+ years – unmatched data scale and freshness for marketing insights. - **OCaml & high‑performance engineering**: Backend built on OCaml for reliability and performance; contributes heavily to the OCaml ecosystem. - **AI with unrestricted data access**: Agent A has full access to Ahrefs’ raw data (not a filtered API), giving it a unique advantage over competitors. - **Simple, autonomous culture**: Engineers own products end‑to‑end; flat hierarchy, low-ego, and high trust. ## Strategic Focus - **AI‑first marketing**: Integrating AI deeply across the platform (Agent A, LLM tuning, dense retrieval) to turn raw data into actionable insights. - **Expanding beyond SEO**: Positioning Ahrefs as a comprehensive “AI marketing platform” that covers content, discovery, and measurement. - **Global team growth**: Hiring remotely and in hubs (Singapore, Palo Alto, Cambridge) to scale both engineering and marketing teams. - **Continuous infrastructure improvement**: Maintaining and evolving the world‑scale crawler, search engine, and data processing pipelines. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast‑moving, flat hierarchy, low‑ego, autonomy, and a “do it, do it right, do it better” motto. Described as “offbeat mix of people who love tech and challenges.” - **Hiring process**: No LeetCode, no coding puzzles, no whiteboard exercises. Takes home task and unstructured technical discussions. Recruiter screen → take‑home task → interview → offer. - **Remote & hybrid**: Work from anywhere with a remote equipment budget; also offices in Singapore, Palo Alto, and Cambridge. Spend 2 weeks a year in an office for in‑person time. - **Perks**: Generous PTO (flexible vacation), conference budget, annual retreat (ski trip), modern office setup with premium coffee equipment. - **Engineering highlights**: Trusted with high agency; a single developer can take a tool from idea to production; open source contributions; no red tape. ## Sources 1. [ahrefs.com/careers](https://ahrefs.com/careers) – Hiring process, culture, perks, locations 2. [ahrefs.com/about](https://ahrefs.com/about) – Mission, bootstrapped status, team size (143), locations, 15 years of crawling 3. [ahrefs.com/team](https://ahrefs.com/team) – Team photo, description of “offbeat” culture 4. [ahrefs.com/tech](https://ahrefs.com/tech) – Tech stack (OCaml, Melange/ReasonML, Python), infrastructure, engineering principles 5. 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