Creative Storyteller – Writer – For 13M Sub Channel | Clean Girl En Espanol

Hiring For the Clean Girl main channel in English

Creative Storyteller (Pre-Production)

Austin, TX (remote first months, then on-site) — Full-time, salary

Salary Range: $60-$80k/yr DOE + 6 month performance review bump

Our mission:

Turn real-world clean-ups into viral hope and products. 21 M followers, 2B monthly views.

Job Description

We’re seeking a creative storyteller with pre-production writing ability to join our creative team on regular productions. This role requires someone who is highly creative, obsessed with storytelling and YouTube. They must be efficient and very consistent in output. The ideal candidate will improve and help us scale the stories we tell to our billions of fans worldwide.

Top Objectives:

1. Translate video ideas into highly compelling intros that intrigue and hook viewers
2. Distill ideas down to its core promise and imagery, then explain the opening shot(s) in plain camera language (picture the idea visually and communicate it)
3. Effectively structure the body of videos to satisfy and retain the viewer
4. Utilize principles of audience engagement to keep viewers satisfied and engaged
5. Use creative problem solving to turn story problems into solutions viewers will love
6. Understand generally how the world works. Determine which ideas are not only good but also reasonably feasible
7. A foresee physics of a shot (“how will this work in the real world?”)
8. Can think through secondary and tertiary results of choices on production
9. layer deeper meaning into stories without losing mass-market clarity
10. Ability to learn new concepts fast and apply them to videos
11. Research methods and processes and turn them into engaging stories
12. Example: if we are fixing a pothole for a video, you have to first learn how a pothole is fixed before you can structure an engaging video about fixing a pothole
13. Example: if we are using a special type of foam in a video, you have to know how it acts to predict what might happen in a given scenario
14. Deliver draft Story Maps (our beat sheet that outlines how the video functions)
15. Send on-deadline drafts for review
16. Quickly perform re-writes as needed and submit final drafts
17. Communicate with necessary production staff about what may be needed for particular videos
18. Review prior content data
19. Study audience-retention graphs, CTR, and share-rate to refine future Story Maps.

Success Criteria:

1. Understand and can follow pre-production systems within 2 weeks
2. Reduce current staff time in pre-production by 80% within 6 weeks
3. Creative Storyteller can produce 2 viral short Maps and 1 long form Map weekly within 3 months while maintaining or improving swipe away rate & AVD / % viewed

Traits of Top Performers:

1. Prior experience or results with social media content
2. Obsessed with storytelling & psychology – Ability to explain choices made in a story
3. Great sense of humor
4. Idea machine – Creative problem solver – Can easily apply new ideas to existing things
5. Sees positivity and good in the world
6. Extreme growth mindset. Wants to pursue greatness no matter the cost and is willing to adapt any part of themselves that is getting in the way. Humility and willing to be wrong
7. Can hit deadlines consistently
8. Understand basics of camera and editing

Work Environment:

1. As one of the most successful social media brands in the world we have a dynamic and fasted paced environment
2. We are very supportive of one another and have a heavy emphasis on personal development

To apply fill out the questionnaire here: https://forms.gle/sqYedUTGnXTr76K4A

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