AI-First Marketing Operator

🇿🇦 Up to ZAR 500,000 per year, on a full-time, permanent employment contract
🌎 Fully remote working from anywhere in South Africa!
🏖️ 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits
✨ A marketing and authority role with AI agents, skills and automation at the centre of the craft — not bolted onto it
🎬 Working with globally recognisable brands across US entertainment, media, streaming, fandom, social and content
🚀 A rare opportunity to shape how an AI-native agency shows up in the market
💻 High-end, fast computer and all the latest software, AI tools and productivity tools you will need

Who We Are

At Storm Ideas, we work with some of the biggest names in US entertainment. Since 2008, our international team has helped major entertainment, media and content-led businesses build stronger relationships with audiences through strategy, social, creative production, community, operations, products and technology.

Our work sits at the intersection of entertainment, fandom, content, technology and operations. Storm is an entertainment agency for the AI era: combining deep social, content and audience expertise with practical AI capability. We help clients make excellent work today, while redesigning the teams, workflows and operations they need as AI reshapes the industry.

We practise what we sell: we have transformed how Storm itself operates for the AI era, with agentic tools, shared context and AI-native workflows woven into everyday work — and a dedicated AI Operations team keeping that stack reliable and well-run. You will be stepping into an environment most agencies are still only talking about, and building on foundations most marketers never get.

Storm is headquartered in the UK, with an international, remote-first team and a client base centred on US entertainment. We are now building our first dedicated commercial team.

About the Role

This is an AI-first marketing role. Not a marketing role that “uses AI tools” — a role where the marketing engine itself is built from AI agents, reusable skills, shared context and automated workflows, and where you are the person who designs, runs and relentlessly improves that engine.

The engine's job is authority and demand: a website that makes Storm's positioning unmissable, articles and SEO content that earn attention, an active LinkedIn presence for Storm and its senior leaders, research packs so our commercial team never walks into a room cold, and the creative assets that carry all of it. That's why craft matters as much as the AI. You need real writing and editing ability, an eye for design (you'll make and direct visual assets, and while you don't need to be a designer, you do need to know good from almost-good) and a marketer's instinct for story: how a narrative builds attention across a post, a page and a campaign. AI gives you leverage; judgement decides what ships.

The right person does not need to arrive as a fully formed senior marketing leader. We care much more about agency, judgement, systems thinking, technical mindedness, learning velocity and serious engagement with the work. But the AI bar is real. We're not talking about using AI as a search box or an autocomplete. The person we're looking for treats AI as a capable pair of hands. They delegate whole pieces of work, not just questions. They review what comes back with a sharp, critical eye. And they keep refining how they brief and direct it, so the quality compounds. If you read that and thought “that's just how I work now,” this role is built for you.

What You Will Do

• Build and run Storm's marketing engine as an AI-first system: agents, skills, prompts, context libraries and automations producing website content, articles, LinkedIn material and research at a pace and consistency manual marketing cannot match
• Own the source-of-truth context layer that makes AI output good: positioning, service descriptions, content pillars, senior POVs, approved language and tone — structured so every workflow starts from truth, not from a blank prompt
• Turn senior thinking into public authority: interview internal experts, mine calls and transcripts with AI, and take drafts from agent output to published quality with real editorial judgement
• Create and direct the creative assets that carry the story — social graphics, visual content and short-form video — using AI generation tools, with the eye to keep everything unmistakably on-brand
• Own the rebrand and website content, making sure prospects can quickly understand what Storm does, why we are credible and where AI fits into our work
• Own the article and SEO strategy, tied to Storm's positioning and the audiences we want to reach
• Run market and competitor research: how comparable agencies and consultancies position themselves, and what Storm should learn or avoid
• Support outreach campaigns with contact research, campaign lists and outreach drafts, directed by the Business Development Director
• Build QA into every workflow: source checks, claim checks, tone checks and approval points, so AI velocity never turns into AI slop
• Evaluate and rebuild your own workflows continuously as models, tools and capabilities change — what you run in month six should be better than what you built in month one
• Track what is working in commercial terms: target-account engagement, senior-leader reach, inbound enquiries, useful conversations started, and content actually used in commercial conversations

Your Expertise

You are likely to have:

• Strong writing and editing ability, with a talent for turning complex or messy thinking into clear, useful material for senior audiences — the craft is non-negotiable
• An eye for design and visual storytelling: able to make or direct on-brand creative assets with AI image and video tools — you don't need to be a designer, but you need taste
• Some experience, strong project work or clear self-started evidence in marketing, editorial, content, communications or adjacent work
• Genuine command of AI tools and a strong instinct for how fast the landscape is moving: frontier LLMs and agentic tools (Claude Code, Codex-style agents or similar) already central to your real work, not an occasional chat window
• Evidence that you have built AI-assisted workflows, prompt or skill libraries, knowledge bases or automations that someone other than you could use
• Practical understanding of prompt and agent configuration, context design and lightweight technical systems — markdown, GitHub, Airtable, CMSs, automation tools — or the demonstrated appetite to learn them fast
• Judgement about tone, quality, accuracy and what should or should not be published; you never treat AI output as finished truth
• An interest in how marketing supports relationship-led sales: credibility, proof, reasons to meet and confidence during procurement

What It's Like To Work HereAI-Native, For Real

AI tooling and agentic workflows are central to how every Storm team works, and a dedicated AI Operations team keeps the stack reliable and well-configured. You build your workflows on managed foundations, not from scratch — and you will be expected to use them seriously.

Ideas Welcome, Always

We actively encourage people to bring forward ideas that improve how the company works. This role is expected to improve Storm's marketing system continuously, not execute a static calendar.

Fast, Agile, Adaptive

We move quickly, make decisions pragmatically and adapt as tools, clients and opportunities change.

Team-based

You will work across leadership, commercial, account management, creative, AI operations and delivery teams.

Remote-First and International

Storm is a remote-first company with an international team. Strong written communication, context discipline and async working habits matter.

Recruitment Process

• Application with your CV or resume — a short intro note is welcome but not required
• Any work you want to show us? It's optional but would be a bonus! Anything you think might be relevant
• Online video questions for shortlisted candidates, focused on your judgement, writing ability, marketing systems thinking and practical AI use
• First interview with a member of the recruitment team
• A short practical task relevant to the role
• Task review and second interview with relevant senior leaders
• Final interview with Louise

Not sure if you tick every box? Apply anyway if the core of this role feels like work you have genuinely done, or work you are ready to own. We are more interested in how you think, build, learn and use AI than in a perfect traditional marketing CV. ----------------------

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