[Hiring] Scriptwriter @Headout

Role Description

Dex creates cinematic, immersive, narrative-driven audio tours for venues and neighborhoods worldwide. We're building a pool of freelance Dex Writers to script tours across our global roster of cities - working within Dex's established scriptwriting frameworks. The writing of a Dex tour is an evolving craft involving creative distillation of in-depth research, as well as immersive, conversational storytelling for audio-led walking tours. The writing of each Dex will be a collaborative process with the tour producer, who will be the creative curator of the tour.

This is a structured creative role, not a blank-page one. You'll take a research brief, with an itinerary, route and detailed research per exhibit, and turn it into a scripted, character-voiced audio experience that survives Dex's editorial bar - across multiple rounds of feedback (approximately 3 rounds), on a tour-by-tour engagement basis.

What makes this role special?

• Travel the world through your writing.
• Draft narrative audio tour scripts for iconic venues and historic neighborhoods across the world - after understanding the craft of Dex writing.
• Learn something new every day.
• Read and curate research with an eye for the most compelling facts about world-famous sights.
• Find the stories only you can.
• Work with a team of talented producers.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of demonstrated narrative or scriptwriting output - audio, video, podcast or long-form storytelling. General marketing/content copy does not qualify.
• A writing sample that shows you can find a non-obvious story in a well-documented place, not just summarize it well. A published piece would be ideal.
• Strong research instincts: comfort digging past the first source, sourcing rigor and honesty about what isn't known.
• Curiosity and an instinct to unveil the most interesting facts about any exhibit or venue.
• Comfort writing inside a structured creative framework and taking direct, specific editorial notes across revision rounds.
• Curiosity about places you haven't lived in; you'll be asked to write convincingly and specifically about cities you may never have visited.
• Reliable availability for iterative turnaround cycles typical of freelance engagements.

Requirements

• Work tour-by-tour on a defined turnaround time, coordinating directly with your assigned Producer.
• Sticking to timelines without compromising on quality becomes crucial, as we scale and rely more heavily on writers to craft scripts that require minimal intervention.

Bonus

• Experience in documentary filmmaking or short-form video journalism.
• Prior freelance experience working to an external editorial framework rather than your own in-house style.
• Interest in history, urban geography and place-based storytelling.