Crossover is the world’s #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We’re recruiting this role for our client, Write of Passage. Have you got what it takes?
Are you looking for a massive creative opportunity within a growing company—a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Are you constantly writing scripts in your head? If so, help us create epic media that makes learning to write fun— and share the Write of Passage brand with people all over the world.
Your role is to translate words into compelling imagery. Listen, it’s way more than that, but that’s the essence. Our company is bursting with personality, and we want you to translate that energy into a radical overhaul of our narrative presence.
Write of Passage is creating the best online writing school in the world. Over 1,000 students worldwide have learned a system for publishing quality ideas, connecting with like-minded people, and elevating their careers through writing on the Internet. Our graduates are using online writing to build audiences, launch businesses, and make an impact—living life on their terms!
Write of Passage is considered the gold standard for community-driven, cohort-based, online courses. And, we’re growing. Our vision is to build a global platform for writing instruction in the 21st century while delivering the best educational experience in the world.
We’re a writing company, so the bar is high. Writing visuals is a unique (and niche!) skill with a different mindset than text. You know how to make information aesthetic and infuse stories with a narrative pulse.
We work within limited recording windows, so our creativity happens in prep and post. You help us develop captivating ideas that we execute swiftly on shoot day and set us up with room for innovation in post-production.
What You Will Be Doing
- Writing scripts for a variety of purposes (YouTube videos, courses, workshops, ads, reels, podcasts, etc.)
- Generating first drafts from the title/thumbnail directives of our YouTube Strategy team and bullet points of Product/Marketing
- Relentlessly filter every line of the script through the question “is this visual?” to ensure we add depth and counter-melody to the voiceover, not just 1:1 representation
- Come up with wonky approaches to integrating archival/stock footage so that it feels dynamic, playful, and uniquely Write of Passage
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Constantly being interrupted by meetings; you’ll get in the zone and do deep creative work
- Sticking to the tools and techniques you’ve always used; you’ll be forever expanding your creative arsenal
- Being told exactly what to do and when to do it; you’ll flex your creative muscle daily
Production Writer Key Responsibilities
You’ll visualize scenes, then create the blueprint for communicating their vital essence.
Basic Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience as a writer (screenwriter, script writer, copywriter, etc.)
- Technical expertise with editing and production, either directing or producing
- Experience working with remote, asynchronous communication and editing tools
Nice-to-have Requirements
Technical expertise and professional experience in any of the following:
- Storyboarding
- Design/Typography
- Comedy
- Acting/Public Speaking
- Music
About Write Of Passage
Write of Passage is the gold standard for community-driven, cohort-based, online courses. And, we’re growing. Our vision is to build a global platform for writing instruction in the 21st-century while delivering the best educational experience in the world.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with Crossover
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $30 USD/hour, which equates to $60,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
What to expect next:
- You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
- Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
Important! If you do not receive an email from us:
- First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
- Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
- Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form – by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
- If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/reset-password if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-4832-CA-Toronto-ProductionWrit.001
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