Producer/Writer, YouTube – Inc42

Why this role exists

What you'll own

• Scripts for explainers: Pull the angle out of a news story, a feature or a dataset, and structure it for video, hook first.
• Podcast and founder-conversation structure: Pre-interviews, question flow, the cold open, and the narrative shape you hand the editor.
• Shoot production: Shoot calendar, call sheets, crew, location, equipment and the day itself, as the person responsible for it.
• Editor and vendor briefs: Shot lists and clip notes precise enough that cuts come back close to spec on the first pass.
• YouTube packaging: First drafts of titles, thumbnails, descriptions and chapters, plus the tests that tell us which one worked.
• Delivery for branded content: Shoot logistics and review rounds for partner videos, so a client shoot ships on the date it was promised.
• The performance loop: Read how each video performed every week and feed it back into the next script.

Who you are

• A writer for video: You write for the ear and the eye. Your scripts have a visual column, not just paragraphs.
• A producer who runs the day: You've owned shoots, not assisted on them.
• Obsessed with the first ten seconds: You can look at a cut and say where a viewer leaves and what the opening is missing.
• Curious about startups and business: You read the ecosystem because you want to, and you can pitch three stories from this week's news.
• Comfortable with performance data: Views, click-through and retention change what you make next.
• Calm with many stakeholders: Editors, vendors, editorial reviewers and partners, all on one timeline.
• Open on background: Digital newsrooms, business video, podcast studios, or your own YouTube channel. A creator who writes and produces their own work is exactly who we want to hear from.

Your first 30 days

• Learn the channel, the formats in production and the review steps.
• Take over the production calendar for the live slate.
• Script and produce your first explainer and your first podcast episode.
• Draft the packaging (titles and thumbnails) for everything that ships in the month.

What we offer

• A 0-to-1 build: you shape the formats of a new YouTube division.
• Direct access to India's founders, investors and business leaders.
• A decade of Inc42 journalism and data as raw material for every story.
• Room to experiment with formats, and on camera if you want to be.
• Competitive compensation.
• Delhi-based, in-person.