VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall said in a LinkedIn post that the tech publication is hiring a senior special correspondent focused on enterprise AI, with annual pay starting at $175,000.
Five monthly surveys on enterprise AI
Marshall said VentureBeat runs five monthly surveys targeting people inside large enterprises who build and procure AI. The survey topics are agent orchestration, agent reliability and evaluation, agent security and identity management, AI infrastructure and compute, and the context layer and retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG.
He described the dataset as proprietary, saying that no media outlet of similar size has it, and that the reporter in this role would see the information before anyone outside those companies.
A role that blends reporting and analysis
According to the post, the job is to pull out findings from the survey data that nobody has reported yet, verify them with three to four people trusted by readers, and then publish what those findings mean. Marshall wrote, 「You decide what the story is, and you make the charts yourself.」
The reporter would also interview CIOs and AI platform leaders at Fortune 100 companies to generate new story ideas or confirm and add to findings already in progress.
Marshall wrote, 「This is analyst work, and it is reporter work too. That is also why you should take this job instead of one at a bigger-name media outlet. Do it for a year, and you will become the person the industry cites when it talks about how large enterprises actually buy AI.」
At least five years of tech reporting experience required
Applicants must have at least five years of technology reporting experience and provide work that shows they have produced original reporting. Marshall said the role is not a daily news job and not one that involves rewriting announcements into articles.
The Bay Area is the preferred location, with New York listed as the second choice. A full job description is available in the first comment under the LinkedIn post.