About the Role
Join the creative team behind Atrium, a YouTube channel focused on creating engaging, informative, and entertaining long-form content, including documentary-style stories and historical events, for a global audience.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the narrative of a growing YouTube channel and creating high-quality content that makes interesting and meaningful stories accessible to a broad audience.
Key Responsibilities
- Write approximately 1 high-quality YouTube script per month, typically designed for long-form video content.
- Develop engaging narratives around documentary subjects, historical events, real-world stories, and significant events or moments.
- Conduct excellent, thorough research using reliable sources to ensure scripts are accurate, well-supported, and factually sound.
- Transform complex topics, information, and research into clear, entertaining, and accessible storytelling, particularly around historical events, documentaries, and real-world stories.
- Structure scripts with strong hooks, pacing, narrative progression, and satisfying conclusions.
- Collaborate with producers, researchers, and other creative team members to brainstorm and develop video concepts.
- Incorporate feedback and revise scripts to align with creative direction, audience expectations, and channel goals.
- Stay up to date with YouTube storytelling formats, trends, audience behavior, and content strategies.
- Ensure all written content follows copyright, sourcing, and brand guidelines.
Qualifications
- Proven experience writing scripts for YouTube or other long-form video platforms.
- Experience writing for documentaries, factual programming, historical content, or other research-driven formats.
- Excellent storytelling and writing skills, with a strong understanding of narrative structure and pacing.
- Excellent research skills, including the ability to find, evaluate, cross-reference, and synthesize information from multiple reliable sources.
- Ability to turn complex topics, historical events, and information-heavy subjects into engaging and easy-to-understand narratives.
- Strong understanding of YouTube audiences, retention, hooks, pacing, and storytelling conventions.
- Excellent command of written English.
- Strong organization and time management skills, with the ability to consistently deliver high-quality scripts on schedule.
- Comfortable working independently while also thriving in a collaborative, feedback-driven environment.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- Shape the stories of Atrium: Play a key role in developing compelling narratives around fascinating historical events, real-world stories, and complex subjects.
- Combine research with storytelling: Go beyond presenting facts by turning deep research into narratives that are entertaining, accessible, and memorable.
- Reach a global audience: Create long-form YouTube content designed to engage viewers from around the world.
- Work with a creative team: Collaborate closely with producers, researchers, and other creatives to develop and refine ideas from concept to final script.
- Build a growing channel: Contribute directly to the development of Atrium's voice, storytelling style, and content library as the channel continues to grow.
