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Remote Course Writer wanted | $33-$43 per hour

Added 2020-05-15 13:09:44 +0000 UTC

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We're hiring a Course Writer. If you know anyone who loves to learn new things and help explain them in concise ways to other people, please send them our way. They'll be collaborating with product builders and instructional designers. This opportunity pays $33 to $43 an hour and we're looking for anywhere from 20 to 40 hours a week.

ABOUT US

Our mission is to help people learn and apply the very best strategies, tactics, and mental models they need to do their best work. The world of work is changing and the skills we need are changing along with it. Roles today rely on critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills much more than ever before and we’re out to help people learn those skills.

WHO IS THE TEAM?

We're a small, fully distributed team of 3. 2 of us are on the west coast and one on the east coast. We're engineers, designers, and instructional designers who love the process of learning and helping people become even better versions of themselves.

THE PRODUCT

Our bite-sized, interactive courses teach these skills with short, fun sessions you can do from your phone. Our courses will help you make better decisions, build stronger relationships and perform better. We're building a new learning experience designed specifically for continuous learning on mobile that helps people get a little better every day.

Our courses currently focus on the skills people need to succeed in the modern workforce. Some of our topics:

Managing feedback at work
Systems thinking
Communicating clearly in writing
Coaching Fundamentals
Asking excellent questions
Design thinking
Storytelling
Managing stress and burnout
Mentoring
Motivating Teams
And many more...

WHY JOIN US

If you're interested in:

Helping build a new learning format specifically for mobile.
Building world-class digital products and content experiences.
Working alongside a team that values personal growth and empathy abnormally high.

Then please get in touch. Our founding team is deeply technical, obsesses about product quality and end-user experience, and prioritizes building a company where you end your day feeling better than when started.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

The core responsibility of this role is to do hands-on work writing courses. You'd work closely with our Instructional Designers to take lesson plans and curated research and turn it into the written content that goes alongside interactive exercises and other media inside our courses.

Our courses are a mix of based on the very best ideas we find in research and direct partnerships with subject matter experts. We work with these different sources and turn them into a course using text, visuals, interactive, and post-course activities that help people retain and apply new tactics, strategies, and mental models. We sometimes may even include short audio and video pieces.

THE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THIS ROLE:

Write course content based on lesson plans our instructional designers produce.
Collaborate with our instructional designers to ensure we're producing the best possible version of a given course.
Help set the guidelines we use for our written content.
Push our internal “Course Builder” tool to the max and help us understand what features we can add to unlock further creativity and production speed.
Be part of building our team's culture and processes: how we do work, why we do it that way, how we can improve.

YOUR TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Experience writing and editing, professionally or recreationally. Either way, you must be obsessive about clear writing and thinking and have spent a lot of time practicing this discipline.
Ability to structure information in a clear and engaging way. You can consume, understand, and break down large topics into smaller pieces that are properly sequenced and are easily understood by a specific target audience.
You can write content that is concise and educational but also relatable and fun.

YOUR HUMAN SKILL SET

Equally as important to your technical skills are your human skills. We want to be an amazing place to work and grow, so we value these skills a lot (and we hope you do too).

You value the effective exchange of feedback and understand it's a skill you can improve at. You want to regularly give and receive feedback and you want to participate in helping us all get better at doing both of those things.
You care deeply about empathetic and respectful communication from everyone on the team.
You're willing and able to write out and share your thoughts on complex topics (challenges in your work, team workflow, or anything else) in a clear and concise way. We believe writing is an excellent way to organize thinking, and while we also value live face to face conversations, writing helps us communicate effectively.

OTHER ASPECTS OF THE ROLE

We are a remote company. We’re happy to work with excellent people in all North American time zones. The current team is split between the west and east coasts.
We are open to part-time and full-time hours.
This is a contract role.

HOW TO APPLY

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