Senior Performance Scriptwriter (TikTok / Reels / Shorts) – $110k–$130k base + performance-based bonus
Senior Performance Scriptwriter (TikTok / Reels / Shorts)
BlackMask (Remote, Worldwide)
Reports to: Co-Founder
Owns: Short-Form Scriptwriting + Creative Ideas
Compensation: $110k–$130k base + performance-based bonus
BlackMask is hiring a Senior Performance Scriptwriter to help build and scale high-performing short-form content across our brand.
This is one of the most important hires we’ve made.
We are a social-media-driven company, and scriptwriting is a core growth function inside the business.
You will own how we:
- Create high-performing script ideas
- Develop strong hooks and angles
- Turn product insights into short-form content that performs
You’ll work closely with the co-founder and creative strategist, and your focus will be on writing scripts and generating ideas for content across BlackMask’s current and upcoming product lineup.
This role is about creating content that performs, not just writing copy that sounds good.
Key Responsibilities
Scriptwriting
- Write short-form scripts for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts
- Create scripts that grab attention quickly and keep people watching
- Adapt writing across different short-form formats and content styles
Hooks & Angles
- Develop strong hooks that fit the platform and stop the scroll
- Come up with fresh creative angles around products, problems, and audience pain points
- Generate multiple concepts instead of relying on one idea at a time
Creative Ideas
- Help develop content ideas that can turn into winning short-form videos
- Contribute ideas for brand content and related creator/founder content
- Turn product insights into clear, compelling concepts people actually want to watch
Performance-Driven Iteration
- Improve scripts and ideas based on what performs
- Continuously refine concepts, hooks, and structures
- Think in terms of performance, not just creativity
Collaboration
- Work closely with the co-founder and creative strategist
- Help strengthen the creative system through better ideas and better scripts
- Contribute to a faster, stronger pipeline of performance content
What We’re Looking For
This is not a typical content writer role.
You must be able to write short-form content at a very high level.
You should have:
- Elite short-form scriptwriting ability
- Strong instincts for hooks, pacing, attention, and performance
- The ability to come up with original concepts, not just rewrite what already exists
- A clear understanding of what makes short-form content work
- A fast, adaptable, highly creative mindset
- A strong performance-driven mentality
- Real proof of work you personally contributed to
We care more about actual ability and real work than years of experience.
There is no fixed years requirement. We want proof of elite work.
Nice to Have
- Experience with e-commerce
- Experience with creator-led brands
- Experience with social-first businesses
- Experience writing scripts tied to performance content
- Strong taste in short-form content
- A deep understanding of what makes content break out
These are nice to have, but not required.
How You Think
You look at content and immediately think:
- How do we make the hook stronger?
- Why would someone keep watching?
- What’s the angle here?
- How do we make this feel native to the platform?
- How do we turn this into something that performs?
You care about performance, not just presentation.
You understand that great short-form writing is not about sounding clever. It’s about creating content that earns attention and drives results.
This Role Is NOT For You If
- You only have generic copywriting experience without strong short-form work
- You can’t show real examples of content you personally helped create
- You rely on sounding polished instead of writing for performance
- You struggle to generate strong hooks, angles, and ideas consistently
- You are better at talking about content than actually creating winning scripts
- You need heavy structure and slow timelines to produce good work
What Success Looks Like
- Stronger short-form scripts across BlackMask content
- Better hooks, angles, and ideas at a high volume
- More repeatable winning script concepts
- A stronger creative pipeline across our brand content
- Short-form content that levels up in quality and performance
Why This Role Is Compelling
- Work directly with the co-founder
- Join a social-media-driven brand where content is core to growth
- Play a major role in one of the most important hires in the company
- Have direct impact on the next level of BlackMask’s content engine
- Help shape content across BlackMask’s current and upcoming product lineup
- Operate in a fast-moving, performance-driven environment
- High ownership, high creative upside, high impact
How to Apply
Send us the following through a portfolio or Notion/Drive/Docs link:
- 3–5 of your best examples of short-form content, scripts, or accounts you materially contributed to building
- For each example, include:
- the link
- your exact role
- what you personally wrote or owned
- who else was involved if relevant
- any results or context you can share
- A short note on why you want to work with BlackMask
- Any proof that helps us verify your contribution to the work
We are not looking for someone who just looks impressive on paper.
We are looking for someone who can actually write at a very high level and help us level up our short-form content in a serious way.