YouTube Content Creator

About Motion

Project management systems today are great at letting companies record their tasks, but place all of the burden on human project coordinators. These tools don’t know about the team’s time and resources and don’t have any intelligence — someone has to manually match tasks against their assumptions about the team’s capacity. Not only does this process waste precious company resources, it’s also error-prone and leads to overwork, missed deadlines, miscommunication, and micromanagement.

Motion is building the world’s most advanced project management system — one that doesn’t require a project coordinator manually tracking each task, but rather an intelligent system that can make sense of hundreds of tasks across dozens of projects and automatically coordinate them across every person on the team. Motion allows companies to focus on the work they need to do rather than wasting up to 50% of their resources on overhead.

Our users give us data on their workload (e.g. projects and tasks) and resources (employee roles, calendars, and schedules). Based on all this information, Motion makes intelligent decisions about how tasks should be executed — better than any human project coordinator. Teams that use Motion know what people are working on at any given time, when each task will be completed, and whether any tasks will fall behind schedule. The moment something changes, instead of the coordinator having to figure out all the cascading effects, Motion instantly creates a new optimized plan for the team.

Motion is the project management system of the future. We are growing extremely quickly, trusted by thousands of customers, have millions in revenue, near-infinite runway, and an exceptionally talented team. Most of Motion's 30 employees work in engineering, and the majority of those in business and operations roles also have technical skills.

Location

USA, Canada, UK (fully remote)

About the Hiring Manager

Hi, I’m Gary, Motion’s Head of Growth. Before Motion, my career had spanned a few fields: teaching, consulting, and data analytics. Broad experiences but not deep. I came to Motion as the first business generalist on the team, but I knew to find genuine satisfaction in my career I needed to specialize. I quickly found a home in growth - the intersection of product, data, and marketing.

Over the years, I’ve become obsessed with not just growth, but more broadly, how to distribute a product. That is the problem you and I will work on together. “If you build it, they will come” is the exact antithesis of how the world of growth works. To efficiently distribute a product you need to fight for every single inch, one by one. I’m confident that Motion’s growth team is world-class not only due to the results we deliver but also from talking to many (120+) growth leaders in tech. From these conversations, I have come to believe there are two key growth mistakes made by promising young companies. These issues can be summarized as: (a) companies work on too many distribution channels at once (indigestion not starvation) and (b) companies’ bar for success is not high enough and often not even quantified. The result is distribution-focused organizations are often mediocre, bottlenecked, rubber stamp compliance-laden, and not performance driven. In opposition, Motion is (a) razor focused on a few methods of distribution that are best-in-class (b) highly driven by numbers to form conviction for business decisions.

About The Role

I’m hiring for our 1st fully dedicated YouTube video Content Creator. Thus far, we've built a paid ads team of just A-players. You'll be the first hire focused on organic content, specifically on YouTube. You'll have full creative reign over the content that represents Motion as our whole marketing team comes from a background that embraces experimentation and new ideas. That means you'll own and execute on ideation, scripting, shooting, editing, and delivery (pre to post). I will teach you everything I know about the product and what kind of paid content resonates. It'll be up to you to uncover the organic content pillars that lead to conversions.

The goal for someone really successful in this position is use organic content to build the most successful software brand that has ever existed on YouTube (think what Duolingo did on TikTok). We've worked hard to ensure Motion’s team is one of the highest talent-density teams in the world. We have accomplished in weeks or months what it would take larger teams years to do. You will be successful in this role if:

• You’re ambitious and you’re looking to prove yourself. For most people, this role will give you the most responsibilities you’ve ever had, while holding you to higher standards than other companies you’ve worked at. Expect to work your hardest and do the best work of your career at Motion. You will receive lots of coaching and feedback that you should seek to grow from

• You can take ownership of projects and lead them to completion while dealing with ambiguity and finding the right balance between speed and quality. You don’t need every detail and edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks

• You're a creative at heart. You have taste for what is good versus bad content and can guide Motion to make the right content creation decisions when there is insufficient data and you're required to make bets

• You have strong attention to detail and operational excellence so you can run many projects without being sloppy. You have a strong business sense for what priorities to test and which areas to double down on

Motion is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, race, ancestry, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage all qualified candidates to apply for our job openings. 

Helpful Links:

How Motion Operates: https://main.published-note.pages.dev/docs/2f3c39c1-a882-4112-aedb-4cede74787c8/how_motion_operates

Motion Company Culture: https://main.published-note.pages.dev/docs/4b274f84-2113-40bc-82ee-01550bbd4aec/motion_company_culture

https://www.usemotion.com