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# Technical Scriptwriter at Ahrefs

- **Company:** Ahrefs
- **Location:** Cambridge Massachusetts, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ahrefsjobs/jobs/6006699004

## Job description

## About Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a SaaS marketing platform that helps businesses become discoverable and unmissable online. We're a proudly bootstrapped, profitable, lean, multinational startup with a global team passionate about technology and the future of online discovery. Our suite of tools covers everything from search marketing to content strategy, backed by one of the largest datasets in the industry (3 trillion external backlinks, 3 trillion HTML snapshots). As we evolve with AI and the changing landscape of online marketing, we're looking for people who share our love of technology and our drive to solve real problems.

This role is part of our YouTube team, who are based out of our Cambridge, MA office. You'll be based out of the Cambridge office too, where the team collaborates closely together day to day. This is an on-site role.

## The Role

We're hiring a Technical Script Writer to join our video team in Cambridge, MA. You'll be writing scripts and voiceovers for our YouTube channel, specifically the technical videos our current team finds hardest to crack. Think: AI tool comparisons, automation workflows, testing every image generator on the market. As we branch deeper into AI, there's more than enough work, and we need someone who can translate complex concepts into clear, engaging scripts without dumbing them down. You'll also be a self-starter who stays plugged into the market, pitches video ideas, and helps shape what we cover next.

## What You'll Do

- Write scripts for technical YouTube videos, AI tools, automation demos, in-depth product tests.
- Run your own tests and experiments when a script requires hands-on validation (e.g. "I tested 12 AI writing tools — here's what actually works").
- Write and record voiceover for higher-lift technical videos that require explaining APIs, workflows, or emerging AI concepts.
- Stay on top of the AI and marketing tool landscape, what's launching, what's overhyped, what our audience needs to know.
- Pitch video ideas to the team based on market trends, audience questions, and gaps in our coverage.
- Collaborate with video editors and producers to refine scripts based on visual storytelling needs.
- Use AI assistants and tools to speed up research, build small demos, or clarify technical details.

You'll Thrive Here If

- You can explain technical concepts (APIs, automation, AI models) clearly without being an engineer yourself.
- You've written for video before, you understand pacing, hooks, and how a script needs to serve the edit.
- You're a self-starter who doesn't wait for assignments, you notice what's happening in the market and come to the team with ideas.
- You're comfortable running your own tests and demos to validate what you're writing about (e.g. signing up for tools, running workflows, documenting results).
- You have a good working knowledge of AI tools, how to use them to build small apps, streamline research, or pull together demos.
- You can work autonomously and make judgment calls about tone, depth, and structure without constant check-ins.

Bonus

- Experience writing or producing content about SEO, marketing tools or SaaS products
- Familiarity with scripting or light coding (even just enough to understand what an API call does or how to automate a task)
- A portfolio of technical explainer videos, tutorials, or demos you've scripted or produced

## What We Offer

- Work directly with a fast-moving video team on content that reaches millions of marketers
- Ownership over technical video strategy as we push deeper into AI
- Annual retreat, conference budget, and generous PTO
- A close-knit in-house video team in Cambridge, MA, with the autonomy to shape your work

Location: Cambridge, MA — on-site 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. [ahrefs.com](https://ahrefs.com/) – Platform description, Agent A, user growth stats, Fortune 500 adoption, crawl data scale

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