Remote | Contract | Ground-Floor Opportunity | Deferred Compensation + Project Participation + Performance Upside
GROUND-FLOOR DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT OPPORTUNITY
Emerald Cut Productions is expanding its production slate and digital entertainment division and is seeking an experienced Digital Producer with digital programming and audience development experience and a demonstrated record of building and scaling original digital entertainment.
This is not simply a social-media position. We want someone who has helped take an original digital property from early traction through programming development, audience growth, multiplatform expansion and monetization—and can show measurable results.
The right person will have meaningful creative and strategic input as ECP builds its digital division.
OUR IMMEDIATE PRIORITY
One immediate priority is an existing original digital media property that demonstrated strong early organic audience traction, providing evidence that an audience for the concept exists.
The property began in short-form social video. We believe its larger opportunity extends well beyond short-form content. We need an experienced Digital Producer who knows what to do next: develop it into longer-form YouTube programming, recurring digital episodes, video podcasts/podcasts, serialized programming, companion content and other scalable formats while using short-form strategically for discovery and audience acquisition.
We want someone who has previously helped take demonstrated audience interest and scale it—creatively, strategically and commercially—into millions of views, a substantial recurring audience and meaningful monetization.
ECP brings the underlying IP, established creative identity, production resources and evidence of audience interest. We need the experienced Digital Producer who knows how to help take it from there.
WHAT YOU WOULD BE BUILDING
ECP already has original IP and digital entertainment concepts in development. This role is about helping transform those properties into larger, sustainable, commercially viable entertainment brands.
You would help determine what to produce next; recurring programming formats; how short-form discovery feeds longer-form viewing; where YouTube, podcasts/video podcasts and other platforms fit; why viewers return; what analytics and retention tell us; how properties expand across formats; and where sponsorship, monetization, licensing, distribution and brand-partnership opportunities exist.
You will work with ECP leadership, producers, editors and AI-production specialists on programming, format development, audience strategy, distribution, analytics and commercialization.
A PRODUCER — NOT JUST AN EXECUTOR
This is a hands-on strategic producing role. We are looking for someone experienced enough to bring ideas, challenge assumptions, identify opportunities we may not have considered and take meaningful ownership of digital programming and audience development.
ECP leadership will remain actively involved in the creative direction and underlying IP, but we are not looking for someone who simply waits for instructions. We want a collaborator who can look at an existing property, its audience data and its creative potential and say:
“Here is where I believe this can go, here is what we should build next, and here is how I would get it there.”
As the digital division grows, this role has the potential to expand in scope and leadership responsibility.
THE EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are specifically seeking someone who has personally helped build and substantially scale an original digital entertainment or media property.
Ideally, you have worked soup-to-nuts—from an early-stage property through substantial audience and commercial growth—including programming/format development, audience strategy, YouTube or multiplatform expansion, short-form-to-long-form strategy, acquisition and retention, analytics, podcasts/video podcasts, distribution, sponsorships and monetization.
We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate that a property they personally helped build, lead or materially scale achieved millions of views and/or a substantial recurring audience.
IMPORTANT: It is not sufficient to have worked for a company, brand or channel that already had millions of followers when you arrived. We want to know what YOU personally helped build: where it started, what you were responsible for, what you developed or changed, and the measurable results achieved during your involvement.
THIS IS NOT A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER OR DIGITAL MARKETING POSITION
We are not seeking someone whose primary experience is social-media account management, scheduling posts, client content calendars, community management, paid-media buying, SEO, influencer campaigns or general digital marketing.
Those skills may complement this role, but they are not the job.
We seek an experienced Digital Producer with demonstrated expertise in programming, audience development and growing original digital channels, series, video podcasts, creator-led properties or entertainment brands.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop existing IP into repeatable, scalable digital programming.
• Create/refine concepts for longer-form YouTube, recurring episodes, video podcasts/podcasts and related formats.
• Design how short-form discovery feeds longer-form audience retention.
• Develop programming cadence, episode structures and repeatable formats.
• Use analytics, retention and audience behavior to guide programming.
• Identify multiplatform expansion and distribution opportunities.
• Develop audience-acquisition and retention strategies.
• Develop sponsorship, brand-partnership, platform-monetization, licensing and other revenue strategies.
• Collaborate with producers, editors, AI-content specialists and ECP leadership.
• Help determine not simply how content is promoted, but what should be produced, why audiences will return and how it becomes commercially scalable.
QUALIFICATIONS
PROVEN TRACK RECORD REQUIRED. THIS IS NOT AN ENTRY-LEVEL POSITION.
Candidates should demonstrate:
• Personal involvement in building or materially scaling at least one original digital entertainment/media property.
• Significant measurable audience-development results.
• Experience directly owning or leading the growth strategy for a digital property is strongly preferred.
• Experience with YouTube and/or other major video platforms.
• Understanding of audience acquisition, retention and recurring viewing behavior.
• Experience developing repeatable programming formats—not merely promotional content.
• Ability to translate analytics into programming decisions.
• Understanding of monetization, sponsorship, brand partnerships and/or digital revenue.
• Strong creative and analytical judgment.
• Experience expanding short-form content into longer-form video, recurring programming, podcasts/video podcasts or other formats is particularly valuable.
COMPENSATION & ECONOMIC UPSIDE — PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING
ECP is currently in a pre-monetization development stage. This is compensated work under a written deferred-compensation structure; however, compensation is not initially paid as an immediate salary or hourly cash wage.
Compensation will be negotiated with the selected candidate and documented in writing before work begins. Depending on experience, responsibilities and properties involved, it may include deferred compensation, meaningful project participation and performance-based compensation tied to properties the producer materially helps develop, build and grow.
As those properties generate qualifying revenue through platform monetization, sponsorships, licensing, distribution, brand partnerships or other commercial activity, the producer may participate economically in the success of properties they helped create and scale, subject to the written agreement.
ECP intends to reward exceptional results. The structure may include additional performance bonuses tied to defined audience, distribution and commercial milestones. A producer who materially expands audience, distribution, sponsorship relationships, licensing opportunities, platform reach or qualifying operating revenue may qualify for additional compensation based on the scale of those results.
In practical terms: the greater the measurable value you help create, the greater the potential economic upside.
As ECP's digital properties become sustainably monetized, the role is intended to transition to a conventionally paid ongoing producer or executive position, whether through salary or a paid contract arrangement, subject to the parties' written agreement.
WHEN APPLYING
Please identify at least one original digital entertainment or media property you personally helped build or substantially scale and, wherever possible, tell us:
• Where the property/audience was when you became involved and where it was after your work.
• Your specific responsibilities.
• Programming or recurring formats you helped develop.
• Platforms or formats you helped expand into.
• Measurable results: views, subscribers/followers, recurring viewers, retention, engagement, sponsorships, revenue or monetization.
Applications that do not demonstrate personal involvement in measurable audience growth and digital-property development may not be considered.
