YouTube Channel Manager

Overview:

Wage:

$90,000/year

Benefits:

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Annual review with raise option
• 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
  • After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
  • The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
• Paid Parental Leave
• Up to 6% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
• Quarterly allowance
  • Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
• Open concept office with friendly coworkers
• Creative environment where you can make a difference
• No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
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Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of our YouTube channel: content strategy, scheduling, optimization, community engagement, and growth.
• Ideate video topics aligned with company goals, audience needs, and product roadmaps.
• Script, coordinate production, post-production, upload, optimize metadata & thumbnails.
• Use data: watch times, retention, click-through, audience demographics, comments to continuously refine strategy.
• Collaborate with marketing, design, and product teams to amplify content (teasers, shorts, cross-promotion).
• Manage community: reply to comments, surface feedback, maintain a tone that’s helpful, witty, and true to our brand.
• Stay up to date on YouTube best practices, algorithm changes, trends (shorts, live streaming, etc.), and test new formats.

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of experience managing a YouTube channel or similar long-form video presence.
• Strong understanding of YouTube analytics tools, SEO for video, metadata best practices.
• Excellent storytelling skills; can write or shape scripts or briefs.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional, fast paced environment.
• A data mindset: you test, you learn, you improve; not afraid to be wrong.
• Good collaborator. Humble. Able to take feedback on what we are passionate about.

You want the freedom to experiment and try new video ideas, test thumbnails, see what sticks. You hate weird bureaucratic chains. You want to move fast, learn fast, make mistakes, adjust. You want your work to matter: videos that drive real results (brand awareness, leads, engagement and not just vanity metrics). You appreciate a team that is weird, supportive, and values being real over polished perfection.