Your friendly content marketing enthusiasts
Team Verblio serves 1,500 digital agencies and businesses every month from beautiful Denver, CO.
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Our team at a glance
Mercury 100 fastest-growing companies in Colorado awards
Participate in monthly company book club
Average number of LaCroixs consumed per week
Chicken wings
The stuff that matters to us
supporting great writers
Quality writing comes from happy, motivated writers. We ask for excellence and support their success. Our online writers' forum is an active community, and connection creates better content.
TECH + HUMANS
We’ve built a super-cool technology platform, but deeply personal content comes from humans. Beyond the binary code, team Verblio is a well rounded group of reasonably intelligent people.
Rah rah TEAM SPIRIT
Variety is the spice of team Verblio. We’re a supergroup of SEO-philes, content connoisseurs, designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Left brain & right brain, together = just-right brain.
highly qualified and verb-curious?
Steve Pockross
CEO
Hometown: Denver, CO
Favorite Word: Hootenanny
Steve brings more than 20 years of startup, nonprofit, and Fortune 500 experience to his role as bon vivant of Verblio. He was part of the early management team at crowdsourcing pioneer LiveOps and previously led five SaaS and marketing businesses. Outside the office, Steve enjoys ultimate frisbee, telemark skiing, hosting jazz concerts, and spending time with his two boys. He also writes for the Verblog under his very own category—Spockross. Read Steve’s posts.
Greg Levow
CTO
Hometown: New York, NY
Favorite Word: Aardvark
Hailing from the Empire State, Greg is both a Chief Technology Officer and a gentleman. Prior to joining Verblio, he founded an ag-tech startup that uses simulation modeling and weather data to help farmers optimize their fertilizer usage and improve yields, while reducing environmental impact. When he’s not solving hard problems that intersect business and technology, you’ll find Greg in front of a hot BBQ, cold drink in hand, cooking up something big.
Paul Zalewski
Vice President, Marketing
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Favorite Word: Yup
Paul runs marketing at Verblio and is a self-proclaimed digital marketing and SEO nerd. When he's not helping sad, empty blogs find Verblio content, he enjoys writing and spending time with his wife and two daughters. His prerequisite I-live-in-Colorado activity is snowboarding. Verblio colleagues do not approve of his favorite word.
Reid Lynch
Senior Director, Engineering
Hometown: Shepherdstown, WV
Favorite Word: Forthwith
Reid is Verblio’s senior director of engineering, and his work behind the scenes makes the platform purr. He has a computer science degree and experience building crowdsourcing platforms, but he comes from a newspaper family, so he’s still one of us. Reid’s favorite word means “immediately; at once.”
Zoe Treeson
Director, Operations
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Favorite Word: Bedraggled
As director of operations, Zoe draws on her background in business and film production to help Verblio customers tell their stories. Outside of the office, Zoe does all the (Boulder) things—hiking, cycling, running. Only her complete disinterest in snow sports differentiates her from your average Boulderite. Yet somehow, we’ve found it in our hearts to forgive her.
Mandi O'Brien
Director, Design & Product
Hometown: Portland, OR
Favorite Word: Asterisk
Mandi loves to find simplicity and beauty in the most complex challenges. Her role as Director of Design and Product at Verblio allows her to honor her roots as a true polymath. For the past 8 years, Mandi has worked at fast-growing startups in NYC. Recently, she and her two orange tabby cats relocated to Denver, where they are enjoying their sweet views of the Rocky Mountains. When she’s not working on the latest UX innovation for Verblio, she enjoys music, the outdoors, storytelling, games, and tacos.
Kali Bizzul
Senior Content & Marketing Manager
Hometown: Louisville, CO
Favorite Word: Plumb
Kali exemplifies content marketing enthusiasm and enjoys creating content about content creation for other content marketers. She loves getting the word out about Verblio and helping businesses co-create content that’s authentic and engaging. Apart from Verblio, Kali is passionate about puns, foreign languages, Colorado at large, and staying active with her husband and rascally doggo, Ollie.
Max Harris
Senior Software Engineer
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Favorite Word: Dork
Max is a developer at Verblio. He has a degree in computer science and has worked at startups and big enterprise operations alike, ultimately deciding that the startup life is the life for him. You'll never see his best work up close, you'll just see that the Verblio platform runs like butter. That's Max's doing. He loves all Colorado activities, even though he doesn’t live here anymore.
Brad Smith
Head of Sales
Hometown: Port Huron, MI
Favorite Word: Arugula
Do you like pineapple on pizza? Verblio’s head of sales does! When he’s not leading enterprise sales efforts or making divisive culinary choices, Brad enjoys live music, listening to music, and excelling at 90s music trivia. Before Verblio, Brad spent most of his career building and leading sales teams, most recently launching and growing a platform that makes it easy for Fortune 1000 companies to find video production freelancers.
Caroline Rideout
Sales Manager
Hometown: Olympia, WA
Favorite Word: Sublime
With over six years of SEO and content marketing experience, Caroline is thrilled to bring her expertise to Verblio’s diverse customer base. When she’s not in the office, you’ll find her painting outdoors, perusing her favorite volumes of poetry, and fawning over other people's dogs. Caroline is also Verblio’s elusive, enigmatic dolphin tamer, a skill she picked up from five years of living in Hawaii.
Alexa Baray
Senior Manager, Enterprise Operations
Hometown: Coral Springs, FL
Favorite Word: Tsundoku
Alexa is a trilingual bibliophile with a severe case of nerdiness. Her Verblio journey began in 2016, when she first became a BlogMutt writer. From there, Alexa inexplicably found herself in the role of account manager, and finally coerced worked her way into the operations team. Now, she happily manages Verblio’s professional services from her home office in Florida. When she’s not spamming Slack with pictures of her husky, you’ll find Alexa playing video games, boating, re-reading Harry Potter, or singing showtunes.
Charlene Baker
Client Success Manager
Hometown: Chesapeake, VA
Favorite Word: Awesome
Better known as Char, or Verblio's own personable, personal ray of sunshine. Char is passionate about ensuring our customers are off to a great start with Verblio and continue winning inside our platform. Interesting fact: She's the only chick on our squad who's on two teams, Operations, and Marketing & Sales. Yup, Char's everywhere! When she's not remotely hanging out with her fellow Verblions, you'll find her enjoying quality time with her hubby and two kids. Much like her favorite word, Char is awesome.
Maddie Basch
Manager, Writer Community
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Favorite Word: Scruple
From vetting to reviews, forum chats to new features, Maddie guides, mentors, and advocates for Verblio’s writer community. She earned her MA in literature from CU and was a bartender for many years before making the leap to libraries and becoming a Verblion. Though Maddie brings shame upon the house of Colorado by not really skiing or snowboarding, she more than makes up for it with dope tattoos and a green thumb. Find Maddie in the garden or dancing her face off to a new DJ—always a well made cocktail in hand.
Ginny Mitchell
Enterprise Account Manager
Hometown: Estes Park, CO
Favorite Word: Visceral
Ginny is a mountain-lover and true crime podcast aficionado. She brings her background in biology to her role as Verblio’s enterprise account manager, where it’s not particularly relevant, which is true for most college majors. Before becoming a Verblion, Ginny worked at the United Way of Salt Lake as the resource development director. When she’s not managing Verblio’s team of helpful account managers, Ginny enjoys skiing, gardening, hiking, scuba diving, sailing, music, and comedy.
Natalie Robinson
Sr. Manager, Partnerships & Strategy
Hometown: Green Bay, WI
Favorite Word: Juxtaposition
Hailing from America’s dairyland (#gopack), Natalie heads up partnerships and a variety of strategic projects. This versatile Verblion is passionate about learning new things and problem solving. Though generally easygoing, Natalie was chafed about choosing just one favorite word. Yes, she is a true cheesehead, but is assimilating nicely to Colorado via her new climbing hobby. Natalie also enjoys cooking, podcasts, and music.
Amie Aulwes
General Startup Associate
Hometown: Cedar Rapids, IA
Favorite Word: Periwinkle
Need a power point? A T-shirt? Perhaps a snack? Amie is your gal. This colorful, creative renaissance woman keeps team Verblio running like a well oiled rube-goldberg machine. When she’s not flawlessly coordinating contractors, conference calls, or Costco runs, Amie enjoys printmaking, bird-watching and cooking. Her favorite food is dumplings and she has a degree in fine art.
Alice Ward
Jr. Product Manager
Hometown: Durham, NC
Favorite Word: Penultimate
Alice brings her passion for learning about others and problem solving to her role as Verblio’s junior product manager, where she helps make the Verblio platform enjoyable and user friendly for all. Outside of the office, Alice enjoys coffee, beautifully groomed ski runs, and perfectly cooked salmon. We’re thankful Alice broke with tradition and decided not to study natural science like the rest of her family, because it brought her to us.
do you love content and cold lacroix? We're hiring!
We’re looking for a Professional Services Manager to join our rapidly growing team!
We’re excited to bring on a process-driven, strategically-minded, wearer of many hats to manage the products and services that customers rely on to increase the SEO value of their content. Our professional services are designed to help customers boost their content marketing process beyond the production of content (i.e. SEO optimization, content strategy, video). In this role, you’ll be responsible for a critical part of our revenue growth and our platform’s value. Your knowledge of the content marketing sphere will help you continue to improve existing products and design new offerings that will add SEO juice to our clients’ content. You’ll collaborate with a large group of contractors to scale these services and deliver them seamlessly. Sound crazy but kind of exciting? You should totally do this.
Perfect backgrounds: None.
But some options could include:
- Waiting tables while earning a Ph.D. in extinct primate morphology
- Startup experience in a hemp ear muff business + a degree in the philosophy of game show hosting
- Urban graffiti tour guide + author of a book about the secret affairs of Sylvia Plath
This full-time, exempt position will be responsible for:
- Managing the delivery of over 5 unique products and services. From simply adding photos to full account management, our professional services are designed to add more SEO value and save customers more time in their content marketing journey.
- Coordinating service delivery with supporting contractors. Most of our professional services are fulfilled by groups of specialized contractors. You’ll oversee these contractors, ensuring they continue to meet quality and turnaround standards and gather their feedback on pain-points so as to continually improve workflows and offerings.
- Creating and improving delivery workflows. As we create new products and services and tweak existing ones, you’ll design efficient and effective delivery workflows with an eye towards improved project management across collaborators.
- Strategizing growth opportunities for existing stable of products. Professional Services is a key lever in our growth so you’ll be focused on identifying how to grow these products and services.
- Community building. We’re proud of the communicative and fun contractor community we’ve built. You’ll continue to find ways to connect contractors to each other, increase visibility between the Verblio and contractor teams, and elicit valuable feedback to improve our professional services.
- Wearing hats. So many hats. At Verblio, we’re a tight-knit team that feels comfortable jumping into any role and solving any problem at any time. We’re looking for someone who isn’t afraid to go above and beyond their responsibilities for the good of the team, the platform, and our community.
What you will need to be successful in this role:
- 2-5 years of client management experience, marketing experience, or SaaS background.
- A strong foundation in content marketing/SEO/inbound marketing.
- Great interpersonal skills and a love for building relationships with clients.
- A love for project management and turning tasks into a systematic process that can be replicated and scaled.
- Strong writing, editing, and messaging skills.
- A data-driven mentality, and the interest to build reporting, tracking, and systems that enable us to understand how to improve our margins, speed, and quality.
- Problem-solving prowess and extreme organizational skillz.
- Willingness to wear many hats and jump into projects outside of core responsibilities.
- Zeal for working with a kick-ass team of power-women hell-bent on having a great time, enjoying the quirkiness of our users, and overdelivering (because it’s the right thing to do).
What makes Verblio a great place to work?
- We work hard, have fun, learn a lot, and are proud of our transparent, collaborative culture.
- We believe in doing good, and that creating great opportunities for home-based writers is just as important as helping our clients find their next customer.
- This year we made the Inc 5000 list and won our fifth Mercury 100 award as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Boulder Valley.
- We offer competitive salaries, health, dental & vision insurance, and a generous vacation policy.
Excited about this opportunity? If so, click here to apply with your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile link.
Or apply to become a Verblio writer.