99.9% of online courses suck because they aren’t carefully crafted by creative, compelling writers. We’re approaching online courses a little bit differently -- we believe that writers like you are a crucial ingredient to changing how effective online education can be.

Jumpcut is a Y Combinator company, and went through the startup accelerator in summer 2016. We've raised around $2M to date in venture funding, and are currently profitable. We create cinematic online courses with some of the world’s biggest influencers. Our founding team has years of experience creating binge-worthy content -- and now we are on a mission to interrupt the online education industry by creating courses for the modern world that are as addictive as your favorite TV show.

What the job entails:

We are looking for a creative senior writer, specializing in video content, to write informative and entertaining online courses for our platform. This is a unique position: you'd be our first, full time staff writer on our team, responsible for researching, outlining, and writing the creative scripts for our upcoming courses. Each course will incorporate elements of storytelling, excerpts from interviews that we conduct, and scientific research in order to teach our students in the most entertaining and thorough way possible.

The below videos serve as inspiration for our courses. They are shorter versions of what we strive to accomplish: detailed information delivered in an incredibly entertaining, cinematic way:

• Rapping, deconstructed by Vox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWveXdj6oZU)

• The Alibi by Serial (you can watch ~15 minutes to get the gist of the style) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TlJsW4Eb6o&t)

• Childish Gambino - Storytelling Through Hip-Hop by KaptainKristian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgQ3Hpj-CBU)

• Rihanna’s ‘Work’ Is Not Tropical House by Nerdwriter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbohB2_WnU)

Each of these videos is different, but their similarities are why we continuously turn back to them and those who created them for inspiration:

• Incredibly inspiring, useful, and unique information

• Exceptionally well thought out visuals that incorporate a huge variety of different mediums (interviews, sound bites, b-roll, news clips, footage shot by their team, motion graphics, kinetic typography)

• A feeling of premium quality

• Conversational language that anybody can understand and follow along with

Who you'll be working with:

As our first senior writer, you'll be working directly with Kel, our Head of Content. You'll be responsible for all of the course writing, and work directly with Kel on revising and editing the scripts. As you write them, you'll also be in meetings with our entire creative and marketing teams to gather requirements and insights from them.

Outcomes:

In 2019, you'll help us research and write the next 3 courses that we create.

In 2020 and beyond, you'll learn to manage a team of writers and become their senior editor.

What you'll do:

• Be the chief course writer for our upcoming courses
• Deeply research and outline each course through articles, books, and expert interviews
• Design the curriculum, and create engaging assignments that help students internalize the lessons

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of relevant experience, specifically in writing for video.
• Strong research skills (you should be able to find compelling information on any topic)
• You deeply love learning, and have a genuine enthusiasm for teaching
• You can produce thorough, unique, and organized research on any topic
• You are excited by the (challenging) task of taking a complex topic, and breaking it down into easy-to-understand, entertaining lessons
• You are open-minded, and do not have an ego about your way being the only way
• You approach strict deadlines with enthusiasm and optimistic aggression, not pessimism. Your overall vibe is “OK, let’s see how we can make this work.”

Benefits, Perks, and Compensation:

We’ve got some pretty sweet digs, catered meals, unlimited PTO, and a full suite of benefits. Check out jumpcut.com/about for more information and to meet the team!

Compensation is competitive and dependent on experience: $75k – $95k annually.