Staff Writer (Satire), the Exploit

• Get paid to roast your industry, its vendors and more. The material you've been collecting at work finally has somewhere to go.

• Upside when a piece lands. We pay like a creator program, not a newsroom, so your best work earns more.

• A small team. We're starting with two or three people, not forty, so you get real feedback and a direct line to the team.

• Keep your day job. The role is remote and flexible, and we'd honestly prefer you keep it, since that's where the material comes from.

$600 a month base for 5 articles and 5 videos. Any extra content or videos requested by Maze staff beyond the base are agreed project by project.

When one of your pieces performs organically, we often put ad money behind it. If we do, you earn 3% of the spend on top of your base for as long as the ads run. For example, if we spend $5,000 USD on ads, you make $150 more.

This is a contractor role with Maze, not the Exploit.

the Exploit (theexploit.co) is the security and tech industry's most trusted source of news that didn't happen. It's a satirical publication from Maze, an AI-native security company, covering the breaches, vendor launches, board meetings, AI news and compliance audits that are hilarious and totally made up, even when they don't feel like it.

We're hiring two satire content creators who can write a story and then turn it into a video. Each story runs as an article on the Exploit, then becomes a short social video, usually a 30- to 90-second news segment.

If you can shoot and edit the video yourself, that's a big plus. If you can't, your scripts need to be good enough that we'll happily make them for you. We'll take a great writer with no camera over a great camera with nothing to say.

Two formats we like: Matt Johansen's security news recaps, where one person covers one story fast with some comedy in it, and Ev Hand, who covers sports news in the article style we're after.

Some of our top articles, so you can see what works:

1. French Locksmith Named Claude Launches Line of Padlocks; Cybersecurity Stocks Lose $18 Billion

2. Judge Sentences CISO to 8 Consecutive Hours on RSA Expo Floor

3. Meta Labs Proudly Announces Its AI Has Also Committed a Felony

4. Burnt-Out CISO Forced to Decline Michelin-Starred Round Table Dinner

5. Riot Breaks Out at Corporate Headquarters After Security Team Introduces Shift Left

• Pitch and write 400- to 700-word articles in the deadpan voice of a real newsroom covering an unreal industry

• Pitch a lot of headlines and work them through with our team. The pieces are yours; we're there to keep the quality high.

• Write, and ideally shoot and edit, short news-desk videos

• Turn our best articles into video, and pitch video-first stories of your own

• Test new formats, characters and recurring bits instead of repeating whatever worked last week

• Bring material from your day job, with names changed to protect the guilty