Senior Screenwriter & Creative Storytelling Lead

remoting.work; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

remoting.work is seeking a Senior Screenwriter and Creative Storytelling Lead to craft narratives for marketing campaigns, branded content, and video productions. You’ll translate ideas into scripts, concepts, and production-ready materials, collaborating with designers, videographers, editors, and marketers.

You’ll shape story structures, character arcs, and emotional journeys, presenting concepts to teams and clients and owning projects from ideation to script completion.

Qualifications

• Proven professional experience as a Screenwriter, Scriptwriter, Creative Director, Story Producer, or similar role.
• Portfolio demonstrating storytelling ability across multiple formats.
• Strong understanding of narrative structure and visual storytelling.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to develop original concepts consistently and work independently.

Responsibilities

• Develop concepts, screenplays, scripts, storylines, and creative narratives for marketing campaigns and visual productions.
• Turn ideas into production-ready scripts and story structures.
• Collaborate with designers, videographers, editors, and marketers to bring concepts to life.
• Lead creative direction of projects and defend concepts to teams and clients.
• Own projects from ideation through script completion.

Skills

Storytelling

Screenwriting

Creative leadership

Narrative development

Idea to scripts

Collaboration

Job description

\"Senior Screenwriter & Creative Storytelling Lead\"

We are looking for an exceptional Screenwriter and Creative Storyteller to join our team.

This is not a content writing role.

This is not a generic copywriting role.

We are looking for someone who understands how to build stories that translate into powerful visual experiences.

The ideal candidate can take a simple business idea, campaign objective, product, or customer problem and transform it into compelling narratives, screenplays, video concepts, campaigns, and content that audiences remember.

You understand that great videos are created long before the camera starts rolling.

Your Core Responsibility

Your primary responsibility will be developing concepts, screenplays, scripts, storylines, and creative narratives for marketing campaigns, branded content, advertisements, documentaries, social media content, and other visual productions.

You will be responsible for turning ideas into stories and stories into production-ready scripts.

What You\'ll Do

• Write professional screenplays and production-ready scripts.


• Develop story concepts, character arcs, narrative structures, and creative treatments.


• Create scene-by-scene breakdowns and visual storytelling frameworks.


• Build engaging hooks, emotional journeys, and audience-driven narratives.


• Translate business goals into compelling stories and campaigns.


• Develop concepts for advertisements, branded content, documentaries, social content, and promotional videos.


• Collaborate with designers, videographers, editors, and marketers to bring concepts to life.


• Lead the creative direction of projects where necessary.


• Present and defend creative concepts to internal teams and clients.


• Take ownership of projects from ideation through script completion.

What We\'re Looking For

You Must Have

• Proven professional experience as a Screenwriter, Scriptwriter, Creative Director, Story Producer, or similar creative role.


• Previous experience working with an agency, production company, media company, creative studio, marketing team, or content-driven organization.


• A strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling ability across multiple formats.


• Exceptional understanding of narrative structure and visual storytelling.


• Strong editorial judgment and creative thinking skills.


• The ability to develop original concepts consistently.


• The ability to work independently with minimal supervision.


• Strong leadership and project ownership capabilities.


• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Highly Desirable Bonus Skills

• Basic Video editing


• Storyboarding


• Creative direction


• Social media content creation


• Digital marketing strategy and campaign development


• Email marketing and nurture sequence creation

Who Will Excel In This Role

The ideal candidate is someone who naturally thinks in scenes, stories, visuals, and emotions.

You can hear a rough business idea and immediately begin seeing:

The story

The screenplay

The shots

The pacing

The emotional journey

The campaign angle

The final visual execution

You don\'t just write scripts.

You create experiences that move people to think, feel, and act.