YouTube Script Writer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Recognize key YouTube content opportunities and establish channel positioning.

• Create playlist strategies and assess audience awareness levels.

• Prioritize topics that align with client business objectives and suggest content sequencing.

• Develop engaging titles, hooks, and thumbnail text prior to scriptwriting.

• Compose 7–12 minute YouTube outlines and scripts that capture attention quickly, sustain curiosity, simplify complex medical subjects, and have a conversational tone.

• Investigate medical literature, competing videos, patient terminology, market awareness, common objections, search intent, and healthcare trends.

• Facilitate strategy discussions with doctors, surgeons, dentists, and other healthcare professionals.

• Conduct client interviews, challenge assumptions, extract narratives, refine positioning, and secure agreement on channel direction.

• Mentor clients to enhance their content decisions and build confidence on camera.

• Analyze video performance, recognize trends, refine future topics and packaging, and enhance retention and scripts based on viewer engagement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in working with, writing about, or communicating complex health topics.

• Proficient understanding of medical terminology, conventional and alternative health viewpoints, patient concerns, and accurate evidence-based communication.

• Background in healthcare marketing, medical or scientific writing, clinical or health-practitioner roles, patient education, health-expert ghostwriting, medical communications, healthcare journalism, or similar fields.

• Experience interviewing subject matter experts and collaborating with physicians, practices, or healthcare brands.

• Exceptional conversational writing that feels natural when spoken and adapts to diverse client personalities and speaking styles.

• Strong strategic and editorial insight; capable of evaluating topics, angles, promises, and positioning.

• Keen instincts for audience and packaging, including understanding viewer awareness, titles, thumbnails, hooks, and content alignment.

• Skills in retention and storytelling, including curiosity gaps, open loops, escalating stakes, pacing, tension, pattern interruptions, delayed reveals, and payoffs.

• Ability to articulate complex subjects clearly and conversationally without inaccuracies.

• Responsible research and thorough interviewing capabilities.

• Proficiency in AI for research, ideation, organization, and drafts while maintaining editorial oversight.

• Capability to identify and eliminate weak AI-generated writing.

• Strong editing proficiency.

• Client-facing communication skills and the ability to lead discussions with health professionals, clarify strategic decisions, respond to feedback, and assertively push back when necessary.

• Comprehensive knowledge of YouTube packaging, viewer psychology, retention, audience expectations, and educational content.

• Experience in developing YouTube content strategies, playlists, titles, and thumbnail concepts.

• Familiarity with reviewing channel analytics and leveraging performance data to enhance content.

• Understanding of direct-response principles and preferred experience with direct-response copywriting, funnels, or VSLs.

• Relevant experience in storytelling, documentary writing, podcast production, educational content, content marketing, or behavioral psychology.

• Experienced-level candidate.

• The application includes the secret code "HP2026".

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly compensation of $6,000-$7,500.

• Remote work opportunity.