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Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Short-term Disability Insurance, Long-term Disability Insurance, Life Insurance
Posted 124d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Content Marketing Manager will collaborate across all platform teams to improve content strategy, packaging, and conversion rates. They are responsible for turning founder insights into scalable frameworks and ensuring content drives business outcomes like leads and sales.
Requirements
Candidates should have deep experience with creator brands or media companies and a strong understanding of internet culture and audience psychology. Proficiency in using AI tools for production and a track record of managing high-growth content campaigns are highly valued.
Full job description
Contrarian Thinking is building the largest media-powered investment company focused on Main Street businesses.
We help entrepreneurs buy, build, and scale profitable companies through content, education, advisory, and investments. Our content reaches millions of people every month across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, newsletters, podcasts, and live events.
We’re hiring a Content Marketing Manager to work across all content teams and platform leads to help our content perform better, convert better, and evolve faster.
This person is equal parts:
Creative strategist
Content operator
Marketing thinker
Trend spotter
Conversion-focused collaborator
You will work cross-functionally with writers, editors, producers, growth marketers, designers, and platform leads to develop stronger ideas, sharper hooks, better campaigns, and content that actually drives business results.
You are not just managing a calendar.
You are helping shape the ideas, positioning, distribution, and conversion strategy behind the content itself.
What You’ll Do
Work Across All Content Teams
Collaborate with platform leads across:
Instagram
TikTok
YouTube
X
LinkedIn
Podcast
Newsletter
Help improve content strategy, packaging, positioning, and campaign execution
Act as a connective layer between content, growth, and marketing teams
Help Content Convert
Identify how content can better drive:
Leads
Sales
Event registrations
Newsletter signups
Membership applications
Brand authority
Improve hooks, CTAs, story flow, proof, retention, and positioning
Think beyond views and focus on business outcomes
Develop New Ideas & Campaigns
Brainstorm high-performing concepts, series, launches, partnerships, and campaigns
Bring fresh ideas based on:
Trends
Audience behavior
Platform shifts
Cultural moments
Competitive research
Help turn founder insights into scalable content frameworks and repeatable series
Improve Cross-Team Execution
Help organize launch calendars, campaign coordination, and distribution plans
Ensure teams are aligned on messaging, goals, and priorities
Create tighter feedback loops between content performance and future strategy
Use Data + Instinct
Review analytics and identify patterns across platforms
Understand what content converts versus what only gets attention
Balance creativity with performance marketing thinking
You Might Be a Fit If You:
Understand both content and marketing deeply
Have experience working with creator brands, media companies, or fast-moving startups
Are obsessed with why content works
Have strong instincts around hooks, positioning, virality, and audience psychology
Can collaborate with creatives without slowing them down
Think in campaigns, not one-off posts
Move quickly and take ownership naturally
Understand internet culture and business audiences
Bonus Points If You:
Have worked on high-growth creator brands
Have experience with launches, funnels, or direct response marketing
Understand how to make content drive revenue, not just engagement
Have experience managing multiple stakeholders and creative teams
Know how to use AI tools to speed up ideation, workflows, and production
What Success Looks Like
Better-performing content across every platform
Stronger conversion from content into revenue
Faster and more aligned execution across teams
More original, scalable content ideas
Smarter campaigns and launches
Content that grows both audience and business simultaneously
Location
Full-time, in-office role at our Austin, Texas headquarters. Applicants must reside within a 1-hour drive of Austin or be willing to relocate.
Benefits
100% company-paid health, dental, and vision
100% company-paid short and long-term disability, life, and accident insurance
Unlimited PTO plus 8 paid holidays
Option to enroll in a 401(k) plan via Vestwell with competitive match options
Free access to all Contrarian Thinking programs and flagship communities
How to Apply
Send a resume plus a short Loom with visual info to explain:
Share visuals from a brand partnership you closed or managed that you're proud of. What was the creative idea, what was the deal structure, and how did it perform? What was your role throughout the process?
An AI content process, workflow, or dashboard you built. What was broken, what you changed, and the before/after. Walk us through it in your loom & show us how it works.
At Contrarian Thinking, we help take back Main Street by buying and building businesses the smart way.
Industry
Business Consulting and Services
Company size
11-50 employees
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Austin, TX
LinkedIn followers
12,031
Most people don’t lack ideas — they lack an operating system to execute.
At Contrarian Thinking, we help take back Main Street by buying and building businesses the smart way. Whether you’re a solopreneur or a seasoned operator, we help you figure out how to buy or grow your business predictably, consistently, less painfully.
Built to Make You Faster. Smoother. More Profitable. Or what we call our GPS.
GAMEPLAN
We help you set your vision (what we call your gameplan) for your company, your life and your team. If you don't have the destination set, it's much harder to get there.
PEOPLE
We help you surround yourself with operators, deal scouts, capital partners, and advisors who’ve actually bought and scaled businesses — not just talked about it. Then we help you build your team to your plan.
SYSTEM
We give you the operating system: how to find, finance, fix, buy, and scale businesses. From due diligence to SOPs to hiring your first GM — our frameworks honed through 15 years in private equity and operating walk you through it.
WHY SO MANY FOUNDERS & BUYERS PARTNER WITH US?
- Acquisitions that cash-flow
- Businesses that scale and are built to last
- Step-by-step deal support and tools
- A community of 5k+ buyers and owners
- A team that is better than you, alongside you
- Long-term wealth from real equity, not just hustle
WHO ARE WE?
We are an investment firm and media company led by Codie Sanchez, 15+ year veteran of private equity and operator of a portfolio of Main Street businesses. We help owners BUY, SCALE, SELL. We buy businesses, teach our partners how to do acquisitions, then we help them scale to create enduring businesses they love to run. We build tools like BizScout (one of the largest business acquisition marketplaces in the world), Growth Boardroom (operating system and community for business owners over $1M+), Contrarian Thinking Capital (venture capital firm investing in the next generation of tech for businesses).
Come build with us.
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