Documentary YouTube Scriptwriter

About the Role

Join the creative team behind Atrium, a YouTube channel focused on creating engaging, informative, and entertaining long-form content, including documentary-style stories and historical events, for a global audience.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the narrative of a growing YouTube channel and creating high-quality content that makes interesting and meaningful stories accessible to a broad audience.

Key Responsibilities

• Write approximately 1 high-quality YouTube script per month, typically designed for long-form video content.
• Develop engaging narratives around documentary subjects, historical events, real-world stories, and significant events or moments.
• Conduct excellent, thorough research using reliable sources to ensure scripts are accurate, well-supported, and factually sound.
• Transform complex topics, information, and research into clear, entertaining, and accessible storytelling, particularly around historical events, documentaries, and real-world stories.
• Structure scripts with strong hooks, pacing, narrative progression, and satisfying conclusions.
• Collaborate with producers, researchers, and other creative team members to brainstorm and develop video concepts.
• Incorporate feedback and revise scripts to align with creative direction, audience expectations, and channel goals.
• Stay up to date with YouTube storytelling formats, trends, audience behavior, and content strategies.
• Ensure all written content follows copyright, sourcing, and brand guidelines.

Qualifications

• Proven experience writing scripts for YouTube or other long-form video platforms.
• Experience writing for documentaries, factual programming, historical content, or other research-driven formats.
• Excellent storytelling and writing skills, with a strong understanding of narrative structure and pacing.
• Excellent research skills, including the ability to find, evaluate, cross-reference, and synthesize information from multiple reliable sources.
• Ability to turn complex topics, historical events, and information-heavy subjects into engaging and easy-to-understand narratives.
• Strong understanding of YouTube audiences, retention, hooks, pacing, and storytelling conventions.
• Excellent command of written English.
• Strong organization and time management skills, with the ability to consistently deliver high-quality scripts on schedule.
• Comfortable working independently while also thriving in a collaborative, feedback-driven environment.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Shape the stories of Atrium: Play a key role in developing compelling narratives around fascinating historical events, real-world stories, and complex subjects.
• Combine research with storytelling: Go beyond presenting facts by turning deep research into narratives that are entertaining, accessible, and memorable.
• Reach a global audience: Create long-form YouTube content designed to engage viewers from around the world.
• Work with a creative team: Collaborate closely with producers, researchers, and other creatives to develop and refine ideas from concept to final script.
• Build a growing channel: Contribute directly to the development of Atrium's voice, storytelling style, and content library as the channel continues to grow.