– Does your soul specific itself by means of movies?
– Is your passion critiquing movies or movies, determining methods to make them higher?
– Do you thrive in a high-stress setting full of political infighting, forms, and company nonsense?
In that case, then we’re the place for you, besides you may hate how good of an organization we have now – full of completely happy, typically competent folks that don’t put up with jerks. Frankly, it makes me sick how good everyone seems to be.
We’re distant full time, have very versatile hours, persons are judged by their output, not by how a lot they suck as much as the boss, and turnover is tremendous low as a result of the corporate believes that completely happy workers = completely happy prospects = completely happy checking account. Merely disgusting, in the event you ask me.
–Is that this an actual job advert?–
Yup! Amazingly sufficient, we truly paid cash to put up this on a bunch of various job websites. And it’s not even a pyramid scheme! Plus, get this: the proprietor simply began paying our 60ish workers with cash as an alternative of Pizza Hut coupons – we’re large time, individuals.
Our careers web page is definitely price testing to study extra about how insane we’re (sidenote: it received an online design award in 1993 – we’re a reasonably large deal):
–What do you guys do?–
We do quite a lot of various things today together with promoting superior client merchandise (these are only a small sampling):
Working this Amazon Pay-Per-Click on company: PPCFarm.com (we’re actually, actually good at PPC)
And we are going to quickly be launching a SaaS product for stock administration.
We’re doing our greatest to develop quickly yearly, and it’s our intention to proceed that for so long as attainable, which suggests we’d like good individuals to assist us sustain with the expansion.
–What’s your organization like?–
1. You Can Be Your self. You don’t need to placed on a pretend, skilled face. You’ll be able to simply be your self. You’ll be able to discuss smack to the CEO (extremely inspired), and nobody will suppose something of it. You do not have to decorate up, or use formal language, or faux to be one thing you are not – you possibly can simply be you.
2. Main Alternatives for Profession Development. We aren’t making an attempt to only be a small enterprise. We plan to be doing $100 million yearly within the subsequent few years. We promote shortly as soon as we determine expertise. It doesn’t matter what your credentials are – it issues what you get finished.
3. Full Time Distant/Versatile Hours. You can be working from dwelling in your pajamas, in your schedule. And we don’t care in the event you work 10 hour days 4 days per week or 6 hours a day and catch up over the weekend. As long as you get quite a lot of work finished, we’re completely happy campers.
4. Full Work/Life Stability. If you happen to’re routinely working greater than 45ish hours, you’re gonna get a pleasant talking-to. We would like you to be working at 100% capability, which implies that you have to relaxation.
5. Strongly Anti-BS. Anyone within the firm can (and is predicted to) inform the CEO when he’s incorrect. There aren’t any bureaucratic or BS guidelines getting in the way in which of getting work finished.
6. No Micro-Administration. When you’re educated and have demonstrated you understand your stuff, we’re fairly hands-off. Actually, in the event you want exterior administration to remain on-task and motivated, we in all probability aren’t the place for you.
7. No Poisonous/Incompetent Individuals Allowed. We strive very arduous to display screen out imply or silly individuals earlier than they get in, however in case they slip by means of, we hearth them shortly. You’ll by no means need to interract with somebody who’s an apparent fool or straight up malicious. No poisonous or incompetent individuals at work? Might it actually be? [Yes]
8. Supportive Atmosphere. We don’t function by way of intense stress or unreasonable top-down deadlines. Everybody needs you to achieve success – inner politics are at a minimal right here.
9. Numerous Raises. We do our best possible to get forward of issues and provides raises preemptively, so you do not have to ask for one. It is common in any respect for somebody to obtain 2+ raises per yr.
10. We’ll Spend money on Your Coaching. We would like you and everybody to get higher continuously. You’ll be studying new issues on a regular basis, and are strongly inspired to speculate time day-after-day to study new issues, enhance your system/work course of, and simply typically attempt to make your life simpler.
11. 4-6+ Weeks Trip. We 100% need you to recharge, so having loads of day off is completely price it.
12. Paid Maternity/Paternity Go away. We’ve even began letting individuals skip conferences throughout labor!
13. Self-Funded So We Can Do What’s Proper for Us. We don’t need to reply to anybody however ourselves, so we will make the appropriate resolution for the long-term well being of the corporate vs making an attempt to get large too quick or minimize corners to appease some egocentric investor.
–What are your organization’s values?–
Sure, these are legitimately our values. The careers web page is unquestionably price testing – it’s not simply regular company BS. We promise you’ll study lots about us.
–OK, so I’ve learn like 8 dang pages about you guys. Will you inform me what the precise job is?–
No.
–Wait… What?–
OK superb.Right here’s the deal:
We have to produce quite a lot of movies and have or not it’s an in-house functionality. We’ve a number of ambitions right here, however aren’t sure on the appropriate solution to accomplish them. That is positively gonna be a fuzzy, feel-our-way-through kinda dealio. We’d like your assist to do that.
What sort of movies? Roughly every kind. We’d like:
– Product movies (to placed on Amazon listings for instance)
– Advertisements that we will promote on-line
– Natural social media movies
– Coaching movies for inner use
Wow! Solely these issues? Ought to I additionally must treatment most cancers? Why not throw in fixing Center East politics whereas we’re at it!
That’s truthful. I promise that we’re not truly anticipating you to be a genius in any respect of these items. You simply should be comfy engaged on every particular person step of the video manufacturing course of (with steering from others) to make completed movies, even in the event you’re not the very best on the earth at every particular person step.
So long as you’re keen to put on a number of totally different hats, study like loopy, and continuously adapt/enhance, then you definitely’ll be in fine condition. You’re a generalist firstly, then as we develop, you possibly can delegate a number of the hats to others.
Like everybody else within the firm, additionally, you will must innovate commonly – which suggests determining methods to enhance high quality and manufacturing velocity.
It’s difficult, however enjoyable work that’s going to require quite a lot of time and activity administration, problem-solving, and an affordable quantity of individuals expertise.
–Do I want expertise?–
This function might be not for somebody who has by no means made movies earlier than although you don’t must have X years of expertise or something like that. We simply wish to see that you’re typically succesful, get pleasure from making movies, and are mainly good at it.
That is additionally not a job only for noobies – in the event you’re skilled however nonetheless consider that you’ve heaps to study, then this may even be a match for you.
–Do I want a school diploma?–
You simply should be superior.
–What are your inspirations?–
–Are there any geographic restrictions?–
So long as you might be in a rustic that doesn’t have lively sanctions from the US authorities, we have an interest. Our founder isn’t identified for respecting the federal government a lot, however they’ve all of the weapons, so…
–Am I doing all of the roles in video manufacturing?–
You’ll positively be a generalist to begin. You’ll be working intently with our founder and likewise the top of inventive who will completely assistance on the inventive ideation/script writing facet. You’ll be accountable for the bodily manufacturing and modifying (firstly no less than – we positively intend to develop the group when you’re profitable).
–Do I’ve to supply all of the tools?–
When you’re employed, we are going to purchase the tools/software program that you simply want inside purpose. We’re fairly scrappy and can anticipate you to be as nicely, however that doesn’t imply you need to simply be filming/modifying on a 5-year-old iPhone. We would like you to know we imply enterprise so we’ll get you a 5-year-old iPhone Professional.
–Do you’ve a studio?–
We’ve a warehouse in Charlotte, NC however this job just isn’t required to be native to Charlotte. I feel we’re gonna need to improvise lots, however we anticipate it being the case that you simply’re gonna need to arrange a make-shift studio close to you.
–This sounds fairly good, although I’m nonetheless skeptical that this isn’t a pyramid scheme.–
You sound identical to the tax authorities!
–That doesn’t resolve any of my fears, however what do I must do to use?–
Please submit your info on the next web page to use. We promise to reply inside 5-10 enterprise days even when our reply is No.
There will likely be a number of steps on this course of, FYI, together with an extended written utility, interviews with probably just a few totally different individuals, and paid work take a look at(s). Hiring the appropriate individuals is admittedly arduous and really costly if we do it poorly, so we have now to front-load the method. I am sorry about that and thanks for sticking with us.
When you’re in our pipeline although, I’d anticipate supplying you with a closing reply inside just a few weeks, relying on the way it goes. We positively don’t wish to string you alongside, and so long as you do what we ask, we promise to inform you “sure” or “no”, and to not simply ghost you (like everyone I match with on Tinder).
Thanks in your time and curiosity, and I hope we will work collectively quickly!