Creative Director - Mr. Spherical (Remote)

About the Role: Do you have a sharp sense of humor, a love for satire and history, and a passion for turning complex ideas into highly watchable, thought-provoking content? At MrSpherical, you'll lead a channel with almost 2 million YouTube followers and growingwhere geo-politics, culture, and storytelling collide to help millions think more critically about the world. We're looking for a Creative Director who leads not just with vision, but with accountability, obsession, and execution. Someone who treats the success of this IP like a business partner (and who can become a business partner)taking full ownership, driving strategic growth, and relentlessly pushing the creative bar higher. We're looking for a person who, with exceptional leadership, can earn equity in the brand over time (through sweat equity). Check out the MrSpherical channel here As our Creative Director, you are:

• A strategic leader who thinks and acts like a business partner. You don't wait to be told what to doyou understand the stakes, take ownership, and captain the team toward tangible, measurable growth in viewership, revenue, and educational impact.
• Grounded in the YouTube and creator economy space, with a strong eye for what works and what converts on this platformespecially for animation.
• An exceptional manager who can guide 510 creatives, animators, writers, and editors with clarity, kindness, and high standards. You anchor the team through changes, deadlines, and creative challenges.
• Passionate about turning feedback into fire. You listen to the voice of the audience, mine feedback rigorously, and iterate rapidly to improve storytelling, pacing, and resonance.
• Obsessed with excellence. You sweat the small stuff, chase down better ways to tell a story, and never settle for just good enough.
• You want to be a business partner, who can earn equity in the brand they lead. Working together to rocket the brand, and even create a geopolitics board game with us, and so much more.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Own the creative and strategic direction of the channeldeveloping compelling stories that drive viewership and deepen our audience's connection to the brand.
• Manage the full production pipeline across scripting, storyboarding, animation, and editingensuring episodes ship on time and at top quality.
• Review scripts, animation drafts, and edits with precisionmaking high-impact creative decisions that keep the content sharp, smart, and scroll-stopping.
• Proactively shape content strategy and edit scripts with the channel's writers and content strategistplanning episodes ahead with clear goals, direction, and creative hooks.
• Lead highly productive meetings that cut through confusion and accelerate executionespecially when timelines are tight or feedback is complex.
• Publish videos to YouTube, monitor performance metrics, and help steer the channel based on what resonates and performs.
• Champion team rituals and improvementseverything from creative brainstorms to deadline sprints to workflow upgrades that make everyone's work better.

Who you are (What are you obsessed with?)

• You are obsessed with the quality of your work and the success of your channel. You are self-motivated towards success. You treat this job like a mission now that geopolitics is more important than ever, to learn about. You're emotionally invested in growing the viewership, revenue, and impact of the brand.
• You have a natural drive to improve, meet deadlines, and achieve more things in the future as a creative director.
• You are rigorous in collecting feedback from anyone who can give a viewer perspective, and you are excellent at synthesizing these. You understand the voice of our audience and are deeply curious about what makes content resonate or fall flat.
• You have high standards. You work relentlessly with the team to absolutely nail the quality within sharp timelines. Example: you are obsessed about fixing a video within a 2-day deadline, so you organize 2 calls with 3 team members to fix the problems live. No back and forth, just dedicated work to fixing and synthesizing 3 different perspectives all at once.
• You combine creative instincts with operational clarityable to turn ideas into finished work through clear timelines and accountability.
• You're passionate about finding and developing great talentand won't compromise on building a high-performing, motivated team.
• You have experience in animation, storytelling, or adjacent creative roles, ideally with direct exposure to YouTube or digital-first content.

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