What are the responsibilities and job description for the Content Engineer position at Surface Labs?
About Surface Labs
Surface Labs is an applied AI lab building the Lead Operations Center for B2B marketing teams. Surface unifies lead capture, qualification, and routing, follow-ups and long-term nurture — allowing marketers to spend 80% less time on manual ops work and more time finding creative ways to convert leads into revenue.
We're live in production with Surface AI agents processing 50K leads monthly, are backed by YC/Garry Tan and Dharmesh Shah (co-founder of HubSpot), and just doubled our team size in the last 2 months across Engineering, Design, and GTM.
The Role
You'll own the content engine at Surface Labs. Not a writer, not a marketer — an engineer who treats content like a product and ships distribution systems end-to-end. Pure commission, uncapped, tied directly to pipeline you influence.
You'll Own
Comp
Interview Process
Surface Labs is an applied AI lab building the Lead Operations Center for B2B marketing teams. Surface unifies lead capture, qualification, and routing, follow-ups and long-term nurture — allowing marketers to spend 80% less time on manual ops work and more time finding creative ways to convert leads into revenue.
We're live in production with Surface AI agents processing 50K leads monthly, are backed by YC/Garry Tan and Dharmesh Shah (co-founder of HubSpot), and just doubled our team size in the last 2 months across Engineering, Design, and GTM.
The Role
You'll own the content engine at Surface Labs. Not a writer, not a marketer — an engineer who treats content like a product and ships distribution systems end-to-end. Pure commission, uncapped, tied directly to pipeline you influence.
You'll Own
- Content pipelines across LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube, and our blog
- AEO/GEO visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot (we track 147 prompts today)
- Blog infrastructure, CMS (Notion → Next.js ISR), and internal content tooling
- Claude-powered workflows that turn one insight into 50 pieces of content
- Measurement — impressions, visibility %, pipeline influenced
- 1 years shipping production code (any stack; we use Next.js TypeScript Python)
- Written content people have actually read (LinkedIn, blog, Reddit, Twitter — show us)
- Power user of Claude, Cursor, or similar — you 10x your own output
- Opinionated about distribution, not just creation
- Moves fast, ships daily, measures everything
- Comfortable betting on yourself — this is a commission-only role
Comp
- Base: $0
- Commission: $2K–$5K per closed deal sourced from your content (uncapped)
- OTE: $100K–$200K based on pipeline influenced
- Equity: 0.10%–0.50% (4-year vest, 1-year cliff)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Food and travel reimbursement
- MacBook
- International team off-sites
Interview Process
- Join our Discord (mandatory) — https://discord.gg/Hc4N7wDw — introduce yourself in #introductions. Applications without a Discord join will not be reviewed.
- Apply — Send our CEO (Saharsh) a LinkedIn DM email with links to content you've shipped and code you've written. Include your Discord handle.
- Intro Call (20 min) — Quick chat with the CEO to assess fit
- Content Sprint (48 hrs) — Take-home: ship a piece of content the system behind it. We review together.
- Final Conversation (30 min) — Culture fit, comp, and questions
Salary : $10,000 - $200,000