Codie Sanchez is hiring a Senior YouTube Long-Form Writer who knows how to turn business ideas into high-retention YouTube scripts. This is not a generalist writing role.

This is for someone who understands YouTube as a distribution engine, business, and entrepreneurship, and telling powerful stories that connect.

You will write 10–25 minute YouTube scripts focused on:

• Buying businesses
• Investing
• Cash flow
• Acquisitions
• Wealth frameworks
• Contrarian takes on money, work, and ownership

You must have YouTube credentials. Not just “I like YouTube,” but proof that you’ve written long-form content that:

• Holds attention
• Drives comments
• Builds authority
• Converts viewers into believers

You’ll work directly with our in-house YouTube team and Founder/CEO to help shape some of the most-watched business content on YouTube.

If you need weeks to “find the vibe,” this isn’t for you.

If you think in hooks, retention curves, and story beats, let’s talk.

What You’ll Actually Do

If you worked here this month, you might have:

• Written a 15-minute YouTube script breaking down why boring businesses outperform tech startups
• Turned a small acquisition into a narrative case study that holds audience retention
• Built a repeatable framework viewers reference in the comments
• Rewritten a script five times to sharpen the first 30 seconds
• Partnered with editors to improve pacing, payoff, and watch time

Key Responsibilities

YouTube Long-Form Writing

• Write high-retention YouTube scripts (10–25 minutes) with strong hooks, clear arcs, and memorable frameworks
• Structure content for watch time, not essays
• Bring data-backed ideas to the table and continuously work to evolve the channel

Business Storytelling

• Translate complex topics like acquisitions, finance, ownership into stories people understand, connect with and can apply in their own lives and businesses

Audience & Retention Thinking

• Write with an understanding of pacing, curiosity gaps, and psychological pull
• Obsess over the first 30 seconds and the roadmap that tells the story

Voice & Authority

• Write in a tone that is sharp, contrarian, intelligent, and earned
• Help evolve our YouTube voice as the channel scales

Speed & Execution

• Move fast. Hit deadlines. Improve through iteration
• Treat feedback as fuel, not friction

Required Qualifications

This role is not entry-level.

You should have:

• Proven experience writing long-form YouTube scripts (links required)
• A strong business mindset and interest / knowledge of startups, finance, or SMB ownership
• Clear understanding of YouTube retention, hooks, and structure
• Exceptional storytelling instincts
• Ability to simplify complex ideas without dumbing them down

Bonus points if you’ve written for:

• A large YouTube channel
• A business or finance creator
• A high-growth media brand

What We Do

Contrarian Thinking helps people buy businesses, build cash flow, and think independently.

• 800K+ weekly newsletter readers. We have two weekly newsletters
• 2.05M YouTube subscribers, 3M Instagram followers
• 12M+ followers across platforms
• Top-50 business podcast
• Courses, community, and an active investment fund

We don’t just write about deals — we do them.