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Dragonfruit · 1 day ago

YouTube Copywriter

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

Dragonfruit is a company focused on transforming YouTube into a more valuable and educational platform. As a YouTube Copywriter, you will craft compelling scripts for influential educational channels, collaborating with various creative professionals to ensure impactful storytelling and video performance.

AnalyticsContent CreatorsFilm ProductionMedia and Entertainment

Hiring Manager

Adrian Lurie

Responsibilities

Craft the stories and lessons for educational YouTube channels

Define the editorial vision across several creative pods

Collaborate with YouTube Producers, Creative Directors, Post-Production Managers, and Video Editors to craft viral-educational videos

Own script development and execution across the client roster

Synthesize advanced storytelling techniques and YouTube-native expertise to write world-class scripts

Work closely with editors to cut raw footage to adhere to your vision

Provide constructive mentorship and feedback to producers, creative directors, and video editors

Help identify blind spots in service offerings and work collaboratively to improve systems/processes

Qualification

YouTube ScriptwritingYouTube AnalyticsStorytelling TechniquesCopywriting TechniquesCreative WritingInterpersonal SkillsProblem Solving

Required

Proven experience as a YouTube Scriptwriter, YouTube Strategist, YouTube Producer/Manager or similar role with documented results (must be able to provide examples of scripts you wrote that got large amounts of views)

You're a true student of both creative and persuasive writing, with deep understanding of narrative structure and theory, storytelling methodologies, copywriting techniques, and how to employ ethos (credibility), pathos (emotional appeals), and logos (logical reasoning) in your writing to influence and entertain an audience

You live, eat, & breathe YouTube — you have a deep understanding of YouTube meta cultures and trends, knowledge of creators across various niches (NOT gaming), and a mastery over viral video formats, concepts, titles, thumbnails, scripts/outlines, retention-optimized editing, and YouTube analytics

Expert communicator and problem solver with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate creative concepts and feedback between clients and the creative team