Jr. Creative Director

Dragonfruit; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Dragonfruit Media is seeking a Junior Creative Director in training to work alongside a Senior Creative Director. You’ll start on 1–2 client accounts, shaping concepts, scripts, and delivery while building your own portfolio and client relationships.

You will learn the craft from experienced leaders, handling scripts, pitches, and packaging for educational YouTube channels, with a clear path to Creative Director as you grow.

Qualifications

• Educational storytelling is the heart of this job.
• Clear, conversational, structured writing that holds attention.
• Experience with YouTube scriptwriting is preferred for educational long-form videos.
• You’re coachable, take notes, and act quickly to improve.
• You can explain ideas clearly to a client and ask the right questions.
• You are excited by a high-volume weekly publishing rhythm while keeping quality high.

Responsibilities

• Pitch and shape videos from our validated idea bank with a strong hook and story.
• Write and review scripts in the client’s voice; research topics for accuracy.
• Join client calls, present ideas, gather expert knowledge, and maintain calm conviction.
• Review edits, titles, and thumbnails with the Post-Production team and designers.
• Learn from analytics with the YouTube Strategist and apply lessons to future videos.
• Use AI tools to research, outline, and draft faster without sacrificing quality.

Skills

Educational storytelling

Writing

YouTube knowledge

Coachable

Communication

Job description

Jr. Creative Director at Dragonfruit Media

Who We Are

Five years ago, Dragonfruit 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. We've 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.

Dragonfruit's Mission

Dragonfruit 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. Our mission is to build the creative infrastructure for a healthier, more thoughtful internet.

The Role

The Junior Creative Director is a Creative Director in training. You'll work across the full scope of the CD role with a Senior Creative Director beside you who reviews your work, coaches you, and helps you grow into running your own accounts.

You'll start on 1 to 2 client accounts inside one of our Senior Pods, pitching video ideas, shaping the hook and story, writing and reviewing scripts, giving feedback on edits and packaging, and building a strong, collaborative relationship with your clients. As you grow, you'll take on more accounts and more independence, with a clear path to Creative Director.

This role is for someone earlier in their career who has strong creative taste and storytelling talent and wants to learn the craft from people doing it at a high level, on some of the best educational channels on YouTube.

What You'll Do

• Pitch and shape videos. Choose strong ideas from our validated idea bank and develop them into pitches with a clear angle, hook and story structure.
• Write and review scripts. Draft outlines and scripts in the client's voice, research topics so every claim holds up, and refine drafts with your Senior CD's notes.
• Partner with clients. Join client calls, present ideas, gather the expert knowledge each video needs, and learn to hold a position with calm conviction.
• Review the work. Give clear notes on edits, titles and thumbnails, working with the Post-Production Manager, editors and designers.
• Learn from the numbers. Work with your pod's YouTube Strategist to understand what's performing and why, and bring those lessons into your next videos.
• Use AI well. Use AI tools to research, outline and draft faster without lowering the quality bar.

Skills and Qualifications

• Educational storytelling is the heart of this job. You can turn complex, research-backed ideas into stories people want to follow. That could come from YouTube, journalism, documentary, explainer video, podcasts or educational media.
• You write well. Clear, conversational, structured writing that holds attention. Experience with YouTube scriptwriting is preferred, especially if you’ve written for educational, long-form videos.
• You love YouTube. You watch it closely, have opinions on why videos work, and want to build a career making long-form educational content.
• You're coachable and hungry. You take notes without ego, act on them quickly, and want to get better every week.
• You communicate with confidence. You can explain an idea clearly to a client and ask the questions that get the best out of experts.
• You want pace. You're excited by a high-volume weekly publishing rhythm and keeping quality high as volume grows.

Nice to have:

hands-on YouTube experience (scripting, editing, packaging or channel growth), a portfolio of your own videos or writing, or a background in a field our clients cover (science, business, tech, finance, health, etc.).

This Role Is Not For You If

• You want full creative autonomy from day one
• You want to own production logistics and deadlines
• You're looking for an on-camera or personal-brand role
• Educational, talking-head content isn't what you want to spend your time making
• Work from anywhere (we're 100% remote)
• 20 days of PTO plus 12 national holidays you can pre-schedule on your preferred dates
• Full health insurance (medical, dental & vision)
• Unlimited reimbursements on book purchases
• Mentorship from Senior Creative Directors and our Executive Creative Director

Dragonfruit is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that Dragonfruit 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.