Employment Type : Full-Time
Who we are The average public high school student in the US receives just 38 minutes of college guidance across 4 years. Here at CollegeVine, we're working to close the guidance gap by providing free, personalized college guidance to all students. We've helped thousands of students get into college since 2013, and in 2019 pivoted to an all-digital guidance offering to expand our impact to millions. Transitioning from one-on-one guidance to a 100% software offering is a big challenge, but we've been able to meet it thanks to our unique culture. You'll be joining a distributed, talented team that's deeply invested in the problems we're trying to solve. We live all around the world, working from our homes, coffee shops, and even a boat! We recruit and hire from varied backgrounds based on our belief that our team's diversity allows us to create better solutions for families. As an Executive Producer, you will be responsible for creating engaging video content that guides millions of families through the college admissions process. Traditionally, the best advising on the college process has only been accessible to those with the means to afford a private school counselor or an expensive college consultant. However, through your leadership, we'll level the playing field and ensure that every single family has access to the same resources — through free, high-quality video content. Your objective will be to transform and grow our Youtube following to millions of fans, which means your work will have real impact and scale. You'll be given the creative and strategic freedom to approach building out our video content in whatever way you think will best achieve our growth goals. You'll leverage best practices to ensure the Youtube algorithm favors our content and grows our audience. Additionally, you'll be responsible for our livestream video content. Our built-in livestream platform helps students get access to live, interactive advising from the world's top admissions experts — completely for free. You'll have ownership over how we build out this program to serve hundreds of thousands. While you are expected to roll up your sleeves and create content yourself, we are looking for someone who ultimately can hire and manage a world-class team of on-screen talent, editors, and writers. You know you're right for this position if: In addition to your awesome attitude and values, we're looking for someone with the following skills: It's an added bonus if you have: Your first day You'll meet with our Head of Product and get a rundown of company strategy, goals, and initiatives. You'll meet the folks you're likely to work with regularly, like our Director of Marketing. You'll also meet the larger company via Slack. Your first week You'll be given a crash course in how college admissions works. You'll have conversations with CollegeVine's founders and meet folks from every team. You'll start to familiarize yourself with CollegeVine's existing product and content offerings across Youtube and livestreams. Your first month You're meeting regularly with our users to better understand their needs. As you finish familiarizing yourself with the existing landscape, you'll work with the Head of Product to develop your own ideas for content, ensuring they fit into the larger product strategy. By this point, you should have at least one video and livestream created. You'll also have met everyone at CollegeVine. Three months in By now you've developed a better idea for what works well with our audience. You're producing awesome videos and livestreams on a predictable cadence. You're comfortable setting some audacious growth goals. You're starting to feel like you have more ideas than time, so you start to bring on new team members to help you realize your vision. You're feeling productive, even if you're still learning about college admissions. Six months in A lot can happen in six months. During your first six months, you've learned a ton of information about admissions and are starting to actively participate in user interviews. Your videos are gaining traction and you're even thinking about redoing your initial goals because you've realized you're going to blow past them. Videos and livestreams are coming out rapidly, and they're amazing. Thanks to your efforts, we can credibly say that one of our core competencies is in producing world-class video content. We offer a competitive salary and a full suite of benefits, some of them unconventional, but awesome for the right person: Remember: We’re a startup. You’re an early employee. We face challenges. Your ideas matter. You will make a difference.
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