Creative Writer

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Media in Austin is seeking a Creative Writer to develop original unscripted video concepts for kids and youth audiences. You’ll turn rough prompts into a complete story framework with a strong hook, clear stakes, and satisfying payoff.

Collaborate with producers, keep templates updated, and help shape formats used by the team. Bring YouTube fluency, prolific output, and experience writing for family audiences.

Qualifications

• Strong YouTube instincts to earn a click and keep viewers to the end.
• Highly prolific with the ability to generate strong concepts from rough prompts.
• Experience writing for kids or family audiences with age-appropriate tone.
• Highly organized and able to keep a fast-moving creative process structured.

Responsibilities

• Develop original unscripted video concepts from initial idea through a ready-to-shoot story framework.
• Build the full creative package for each video, including title, theme, concept, hook, stakes, drama, progression and payoff.
• Work closely with producers to ensure concepts are ambitious, clear and realistic to execute within timelines and budget.
• Keep our creative bible up to date, including formats, frameworks and story templates the team uses.

Skills

YouTube instincts

Prolific writer

Kids/family writing

Organized workflow

Job description

About Early Media

Early Media is creating and distributing groundbreaking original series. We craft narratives with viral potential while preserving the heart of indie production, telling meaningful stories audiences actually care about. Every creative decision is sharpened by a proprietary testing and marketing engine that collapses the distance between filmmaker and audience into the tightest iteration loop in the industry.
We're hiring a Creative Writer for our kids and youth unscripted content. Someone who understands YouTube and can turn a raw idea into a complete video concept with a strong hook, clear stakes, compelling progression, and a satisfying payoff. You should know how to make stories exciting for younger audiences.

What you'll own

• Develop original unscripted video concepts from initial idea through a ready to shoot story framework.
• Build the full creative package for each video, including title, theme, concept, hook, stakes, drama, progression and payoff.
• Work closely with producers to ensure concepts are ambitious, clear and realistic to execute within the available timeline and budget.
• Keep our creative bible up to date, including formats, frameworks and story templates the team works from.

Must-haves

• Strong Youtube instincts. You understand what earns a click, holds attention, and makes a viewer stay through the ending.
• Highly prolific. You can take a subject, creator, location, or rough prompt and quickly generate strong, original concepts.
• You can fully develop an idea, and can turn the strongest concept into a video that production can act on.
• Experience writing for kids or family audiences, with a clear sense of what feels fun, age appropriate and safe.
• You’re highly organized and can keep a fast moving creative process structured, documented and easy to track.

Nice to Have

• Experience writing or producing YouTube, unscripted, documentary, reality, or creator led content for audiences ages 13 to 30.
• A track record or projects that reached and engaged a meaningful audience.