[Hiring] Financial Scriptwriter @Decentralized Masters

Role Description

You write Future Finance's long-form YouTube scripts - 30 to 35 minutes, roughly 4,200 words, one per week - and own the research behind every claim in them, so every claim traces to a primary document. You also cut 3–4 short-form scripts from each episode for distribution.

• You do not pick topics and you do not own packaging (titles, thumbnails). That stays with the showrunner and the production agency.
• You do not name the channel's proprietary frameworks - those come from Salim.
• You may write about a mechanism he's already explained; you won't invent one and hand it to him to defend on camera.

What success looks like:

• One publish-ready script a week, minimum - four a month, delivered as a full package: research memo, six-beat hook, body, retention map, SHOW/SOURCE tags inline, self-scored review sheet.
• Clears the review gate at 7 of 9 or better on first submission, scored against the Future Finance Content Standard.
• Zero unsourced factual claims - every claim carries a SOURCE tag to a primary document, both sides of contested arguments get argued, and thin research gets flagged, never filled in with a plausible number.
• Retention targets on the finished episode - 70%+ first-minute retention, average view duration above the channel baseline.
• Compliance held on every script - no predictions, no recommendations, no certainty language about what happens next.
• Weekly execution - memo submitted ahead of packaging, attendance at the weekly review, Slack availability during working hours, deadline risk flagged the day it's known.

Qualifications

• Sourcing discipline - you open the primary document, not the article about it, and can defend any claim in your own work on the spot.
• Finance literacy - you can read a 10-K, a central bank statement or a BIS paper and come out with an argument.
• Register control - you can raise a script's emotional voltage without reaching for wealth-guru or doom tools, and rewrite a hyped paragraph down without losing the stakes.
• Retention craft - you design open loops, pattern interrupts and a climax on purpose - and can draw the retention map because you built it that way.
• Writing for the ear - scripted for a teleprompter: one idea per sentence, every term defined at first use, read aloud before submission.
• Comfort working inside someone else's frame - you flag a hole in the argument and stop - you don't hedge around it or quietly strengthen a claim the host can't defend.
• Proactivity, attention to detail, high standards, curiosity about macro and digital assets, and integrity about what you have and haven't checked.

Requirements

• Proven scale, in this category - seven figures of cumulative views on finance, macro, investing or business long-form; or a verified 3x-plus outlier against a serious finance channel's trailing average.
• Must be 25-minute-plus long-form; short-form and 8-minute credits don't count. Retention data required (average view duration, first-minute retention - not view counts), shown live via YouTube Studio screenshare or confirmed by the channel owner.
• A high-value audience, not just a large one - what the channel sells, at what price, to whom - sponsor class and CPM are good proxies.
• At least one sample in a calm, sourced, institutional register - if the whole portfolio is hype, get-rich or doom content, that's a disqualifier regardless of the numbers.
• Willingness to complete a paid work sample - one assigned title, five working days, $1,250 - paid whether or not we hire.

How We'll Hire

• Stage 1 - Past work review and interview. We read the actual work - not a summary or a list of links - against the four requirements above. If all four are evidenced, you move forward regardless of our personal taste in the writing.
• Stage 2 - Paid trial script. One assigned title, the Content Standard, five working days. Paid $1,250, whether or not you're hired - that's told upfront.
• Stage 3 - Contract → conversion. Trial script, then a contract which includes a 3 month trial period at the monthly rate, converting to a permanent seat on day 90 against the outcomes above.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + performance-based incentives
• Company offsites
• Remote work
• High ownership, high-impact role