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Who we are

Five years ago, dUmHWX7DxJR set out to bring together some of the most talented visual storytellers, viral video strategists, and big-name clients, to change the way we create and consume on YouTube. The result has been bigger than we could have imagined, having generated over a billion organic views and hundreds of millions of subscribers for creators like Ali Abdaal, Mark Manson, Chris Williamson, Codie Sanchez and MrBeast, and organizations like Y Combinator, Center for Humane Technology, WHOOP, ClickUp and e.l.f. Beauty.

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dUmHWX7DxJR exists to help the world's most important ideas travel farther. We partner with experts, educators, scientists, founders, and creators to turn deep knowledge into media people actually want to watch, share, and act on. In a world where attention is often optimized for noise, we're building a company that rewards clarity, substance, and human impact, combining creative judgment, production craft, and AI-powered systems to help better information reach more people. Our mission is to build the creative infrastructure for a healthier, more thoughtful internet.

The Role

At dUmHWX7DxJR, Creative Directors are the lifeblood of the business, spending their days bringing to life our agency's core product: high-performing educational long-form videos.

As a 5yNR2TFKYqH 7zkrYJu Creative Director, you are truly the face of the company, building close 1:1 creative partnerships with our high-profile clients, operating confidently as the primary strategist, artist, and coach behind their YouTube channels.

Our Creative Directors come from YouTube-native backgrounds as well as from journalism, documentary and other research-driven storytelling. What they share is a talent for making complex ideas clear and compelling, and the confidence to lead a client's creative vision.

You'll shape every stage, from competitor research, brand positioning and concept ideation to scripts, edit reviews, titles and thumbnails, analytics and A/B tests, with the opportunity to create life-changing growth for your clients and their viewers.

Skills and Qualifications

• Educational storytelling is the heart of this job. You have a track record of turning complex, research-backed ideas into long-form stories people want to watch, whether as a YouTube Creative Director or strategist, or in journalism, documentary, explainer video or educational media. You can point to specific work you shaped and what it achieved, such as audience growth, views, retention, awards or impact.

• Taste and strategy, not one or the other. The rare thing we're looking for is someone who can originate a concept that feels genuinely good and explain why it will perform. A strategist who outsources the creative call, or an art director without growth instincts, will struggle here.

• YouTube fluency is a big plus, not a prerequisite. You know what makes people click, watch and stay, and you're curious about how great stories win on YouTube. Hands-on experience with packaging (titles and thumbnails), retention-focused editing and YouTube analytics is strongly preferred. If your background is in journalism, documentary or other long-form video, you'll pick up the platform-specific craft quickly, working alongside CDs and strategists who live in it every day.

• You own the creative relationship with the client. You can articulate and pitch concepts, coach clients on best practices, hold them accountable, disagree with conviction when it matters, and translate feedback cleanly between the client and the creative team. Our clients have strong opinions and high standards, and the CDs who do well here are direct, calm under pressure, and hard to knock off a well-reasoned position. You're building someone else's channel in their voice, so the best CDs know when to hold a position and when to take a note.

• You lead the creatives around you. You give clear direction and timely feedback to editors, designers and scriptwriters, and address work that isn't landing rather than quietly fixing it yourself.

• You read the performance and act on it, or you're eager to learn how. That means looking at a video's numbers, forming a view on whether packaging or retention is the problem, and changing something specific in response.

• You have the drive for pace and volume. Our CDs shape a high volume of long-form videos across several accounts. You don't need to have worked at that volume before, but you need to want it, and to keep the quality high as you do.

This Role Is Not For You If

• You want full creative autonomy with no client in the room

• You want to own production logistics and deadlines

• You only want to work on one topic or format

• You're looking for an on-camera or personal-brand role

• Educational and purpose-driven content isn't what you want to spend your time making

How the job actually works

• Our team is organized into pods. You'll own the creative for 3 to 5 client accounts, which typically means 12 to 20 long-form videos a month across them, working alongside a YouTube Producer, a Post-Production Manager, video editors, thumbnail designers, and scriptwriters. You'll report to our Executive Creative Director and consult with other Creative Directors and team leads.

• You own everything creative, not the logistics. Chasing editors, tracking deadlines, managing budgets and deliverables sit with your Producer. That's deliberate. It protects your bandwidth for the deep creative work, which is where the value of this role actually lives.

• Our clients film their own footage. We own the process from channel strategy and concept ideation through scripting, post-production, packaging and optimization. The shoot itself happens on the client's side, so the craft here is in what gets made before the camera rolls and what happens to the footage after.

• Flexible, async-first hours. We're fully remote and work asynchronously across time zones. Most of our clients are in the US, so we ask for some daily overlap with US Eastern Time to stay responsive to them. The rest of your schedule is yours to shape.

What you can expect

• An exciting startup culture. Work cross-functionally, wear several hats, and move fast and stretch when it matters. We are a hungry and ambitious group of people trying to accomplish something large and challenging and we're looking for folks who are enthusiastic and willing to do what is required to reach their goals.

• Lift up others. Provide constructive mentorship and feedback to video editors, thumbnail designers, and scriptwriters to align with client expectations and optimize video performance.

• Grow. Use 3w7PNkmXZZW'x culture of excellence as an incubator to improve your professional skills, learn new mental models, sharpen your critical thinking, and operate at the forefront of new media.

• Be a key player in 3w7PNkmXZZW'x growth. We're 120 team members and growing. Help identify blind spots in our service offering and work collaboratively with leadership to improve systems and processes.

• Earn more. Take advantage of regular performance-based raises, generous referral and sales commissions, cash bonuses for video performance and more.

Perks

• Work from anywhere (we're 100% remote)

• 20 days of PTO as well as 12 national holidays which you can pre-schedule on your preferred dates.

• Full health insurance package (medical, dental & vision)

• Paid parental leave

• Performance-based profit share model

• Gifts and cash bonuses on birthdays, work anniversaries, and other work-related achievements

• Unlimited reimbursements on book purchases (we like to read)

• Paid volunteering: 1 day dedicated to supporting a cause of your choice

• Work directly with some of the largest creators and brands on the planet

• Work for a company that is values-oriented and committed to positive social impact

Our hiring process

We keep it simple: an initial screener, a paid trial assignment, and a final conversation with our Executive Creative Leadership team.

dUmHWX7DxJR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that dUmHWX7DxJR provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.