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Company: Cut
Location: Seattle, WA 98155

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Cut is a digital studio. Today, that means we make short form videos for platforms like Youtube and Facebook. Tomorrow, we want to be recognized as the home for the next generation of premium entertainment brands for the emerging mainstream. Our goal is to become a fixture in the lives of our audience (the largest untapped group of socially influential millennials we like to call Reflectivists) and a driving force for “complicating” popular culture.

How many Youtube channels do you know that get featured by The Wall Street Journal and TMZ, Marie Claire and Playboy, Hightimes and TED? Cut is a deconstructed entertainment channel that targets self-reflective explorers of curious social realities. The kind of people hungry for content that respects them as smart and isn’t interested in stories that pander or prescribe to them. Sitting at the intersection of media sites like Buzzfeed and Vice, Cut aspires to create the kind of work that is both viral and smart, highly produced and scalable, mainstream and cool. And we’re looking for innovative creators to make us get there.

The director is responsible for content creation within a brand.

  • Creates creative briefs for all assigned projects
  • Owns direction for ongoing series and projects
  • On occasion, will have opportunities to direct pilots and client projects
  • Ensures all project stakeholders are up to date and aligned with project changes
  • Meets project deadlines while keeping a high standard of work that is on brand
  • Provides new video ideas and formats on a regular basis
  • Works with producers and editors to carry out project vision

We’d love it if you had

  • A liberal arts degree
  • 3+ years of creative, production, or professional writing experience
  • An intuitive sense for storytelling
  • Emotional resilience in the face of seemingly overwhelming obstacles
  • Energized by the unruly, urgent, and relentless work demands of a startup environment
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Excellent time/project management skills
  • A strong foundation in and understanding of video production, the inner-workings of creative agencies, and Internet culture

To do this you must know how to tell a story. Part artist/part producer, you meet at the intersection of creativity and execution. Your work is clever not pretentious. You understand the Internet but you aren’t a slave to its trends. Your version of being creative demands restraints. You get more pride from making an incredible video with no money and no time than if you had a million dollars and one year. You know how director subjects in front of the camera and the crew behind it. You know when to defer to an idea and when to fight one. You eagerly take criticism and never offer excuses for failures. You have zero ego, impeccable taste, and an uncompromising editorial vision. Your maturity, vision, humility, curiosity, and enthusiasm is a model for everyone who works with you.

If this is you, we need to meet you.

Note: Cut is a startup. Which means we have infinite problems and a finite amount of resources. Every position must be critical to our ability to grow. Which means every person we hire is an integral part of our ability to be successful. We are small. That means you have a massive impact on the culture we are building. We aren’t precious about processes or plans, but we are protective of our high performance culture. If you don’t like to be constantly challenged, if you’d prefer to be directed at all times, or you need a strict 9 to 5 schedule, you will not succeed here.

Being in a startup means we don’t always know exactly what we want. However, we know that we need people who are fastidious, methodical, passionate, creative, critical, and cool to work with. So, even if you don’t seem like a perfect fit on paper, reach out, you never know.

Cut is an equal opportunity employer