YouTube Scriptwriter

🕒 September 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✏️ Content Writer

👻 Ghost score 18%

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Telos Media

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

📱 Media

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Media • Education • Social Impact

Telos Media is a content company that creates and distributes educational and socially-minded media to build a wiser world. It produces naturally viral video content and operates multiple channels and brands, growing thriving communities and reaching millions of viewers worldwide. Telos Media focuses on translating and localizing its content to expand global reach, plans to launch new channels, and leverages subscriptions and owned storefronts to engage audiences and drive impact.

📋 Description

• Write at least two long-form scripts per month, typically 8–10 minutes each • Write occasional Shorts in Mr. Spherical’s voice • Pitch stories about history, geopolitics, and world events • Develop ideas independently and ideas shared by the Creative Director • Research stories and fact-check content • Preserve important context while incorporating comedy • Write character-driven scenes with sharp dialogue and visual humour • Hook viewers early and maintain story momentum • Create setups that pay off and endings that bring the story together • Work through notes and rewrites with the Creative Director • Incorporate direction and feedback and obtain final approval

🎯 Requirements

• Experience writing long-form YouTube videos, with examples to show • Strong comedy, character writing, and storytelling skills • Understanding of YouTube pacing and audience retention • Ability to research unfamiliar historical, geopolitical, and current-events topics • Ability to verify facts and handle sensitive topics • Ability to turn research into clear, engaging stories • Comfortable owning scripts from pitch through revisions • Ability to meet agreed deadlines • Work that has reached hundreds of thousands or millions of views, with ability to explain what helped it connect • Experience in history or geopolitics is valuable • Strong comedy and character-driven storytelling take priority

🏖️ Benefits

• Part-time role • Potential to reach millions of viewers • Work with a creative team to turn stories into animated characters and scenes • Write for an established audience • Opportunity to bring your own ideas and humour • Opportunity to help Mr. Spherical grow through engaging stories