Videographer / Storyteller

Hilt is kernel-level security backed by Pear VC and Z Fellows, founded by William Cielen, the youngest founder in PearX. The team is heads-down at Brickyard, the Chattanooga "zero-distraction" founder outpost, building what they call wartime software for the highest-sensitivity teams on earth: hedge funds, trading desks, and regulated financial firms where a single breach costs more than most companies are worth and a microsecond of latency is unacceptable.

Hilt operates at the kernel, the deepest layer of the computer, below every security tool these firms already trust, with a metadata-only collector that watches data movement single-tenant inside the customer's own cloud. The insight: the breach isn't a single move. Every individual data movement is permitted, so DLP, EDR, CASB, and DSPM all let it through, correctly. The breach is the pattern across the permitted moves, the slow, deliberate walk of critical data out the door one allowed step at a time.

Hilt resolves every move to a real human identity and the job behind it, scores the behavior, writes the case in plain English, and can isolate a compromised host in under a second, without ever reading the customer's data. Customers today are hedge funds and trading desks; the roadmap extends to AI infrastructure, healthcare, and legal. The team works fully in person in Chattanooga and relocates to a major tech hub after the Series A.

Hilt wants a founding in-house videographer to film and vlog the team's life and turn it into content, the kind of high-energy, motivational "grind" edits that build a personal and company brand (think the founder-brand accounts that post relentlessly). This isn't livestreaming; it's someone with a real camera capturing the day-to-day, cutting it, and pumping it out across the company's channels. The strategic bet is that great content is brand building, culture, and memories.

As the sales team ramps and the pace swings between heads-down build weeks and high-motion travel weeks, there's a steady stream of interesting material to work with. Filming, editing, and posting are the core, done end to end, including on the road (this person travels with the team, not just grabbing clips online). Around the edges, it stretches into light brand design (not UI/UX, think case-study visuals and social assets) and, ideally, merch design, though those can be contracted out.

The videographer is the non-negotiable core; the rest is a bonus if it comes bundled.