Senior Content Executive

Zinc

London, UK

GBP 34k-37k / year + Equity

Posted on Nov 25, 2025

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Why This Role Exists ✨

Content plays a huge part in Zinc’s marketing strategy for 2026 and beyond: from building a brand HR and talent teams trust, to new customer acquisition, to showcasing why we’re the best choice for businesses, right the way through to making happy customers our advocates.

If you want to get in early and bring this strategy to life, we’re looking for someone ambitious and creative who loves all things writing and content. Your day-to-day will be varied and exciting, working across the business and developing content that stands out from the normal B2B SaaS crowd.

Application Deadline: December 19, 2025
Department: Marketing - Campaigns, Comms & Content
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Zinc - London
Workplace type: Hybrid
Compensation: £34,000 - £37,000 / year

Key Responsibilities 🗝️

Content creation (A little bit of everything!)

Support our SEO strategy with well-structured long-form content that ranks across all different platforms.
Execute on different content types and channels to learn what works and what doesn’t, and find new ways to reach our ideal customers
Write and share a huge variety of content across the business: blogs, case studies, reports, emails, landing pages and more
Keep Zinc’s tone of voice sharp, clear, and human, and give edits across the Marketing team and the wider business in line with best practice

Social proof and advocacy (Showcase happy customers)

Own all touchpoints for creating social proof at Zinc, partnering across Revenue, Marketing and Customer.
Execute on our G2 review strategy, supporting the content manager in finding the key moments to prompt advocates into reviewing us.
Bring customer stories to life through testimonials and case studies, pushing the boundaries of creativity and working to distribute to the outbound and sales teams
Own Senja, our review and testimonial platform, to collect and share reviews and testimonials across the business and our website

PR and comms (Getting Zinc noticed)

Find creative opportunities to get Zinc mentioned in relevant publications and PR opportunities, both in and outside of traditional PR efforts
Turn product updates, new content, and thought leadership into punchy press releases, using freelance support where needed
Impact how PR can influence Zinc’s wider content strategy for the AI era

Every week looks different — if you love writing, switching gears, and being part of a friendly, ambitious team, you’ll fit right in.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀

You’ll thrive if you have…

1–2 years in content, PR, copywriting, comms or similar
Strong writing skills — you understand structure, grammar, and how the right words can make an impact
Hands-on PR experience (this is essential)
Experience in a small, fast-paced team (startup environment = big bonus)
Curiosity about SEO and how organic content grows brand reach

You’re someone who’s…

🎨 Creative and 📊 performance-minded (you know your way around the data)
🤲 Low ego — loves feedback, collaboration, and iteration
🔥 Ambitious — wants to make an impact and keep learning, not coast
📣 Confident communicating across teams inside and outside Zinc

What we offer 🍉

Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring

24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
£1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
Early finish Fridays (16:00)
Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳

About Zinc

Who we are ⚡

Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.

📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission

We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.

🪴We recently redefined our company values:

🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.

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