Documentary YouTube Scriptwriter - Atrium

About the Role

Join the creative team behind

Atrium

, a YouTube channel focused on creating engaging, informative, and entertaining long-form content, including

documentary-style stories and historical events

, for a global audience.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the narrative of a growing YouTube channel and creating high-quality content that makes interesting and meaningful stories accessible to a broad audience.

Key Responsibilities

Write

• approximately 1 high-quality YouTube script per month
• , typically designed for long-form video content.
• Develop engaging narratives around
• documentary subjects, historical events, real-world stories, and significant events or moments
• .

Conduct

• excellent, thorough research
• using reliable sources to ensure scripts are accurate, well-supported, and factually sound.
• Transform complex topics, information, and research into
• clear, entertaining, and accessible storytelling
• , particularly around historical events, documentaries, and real-world stories.
• Structure scripts with strong hooks, pacing, narrative progression, and satisfying conclusions.
• Collaborate with producers, researchers, and other creative team members to brainstorm and develop video concepts.
• Incorporate feedback and revise scripts to align with creative direction, audience expectations, and channel goals.
• Stay up to date with YouTube storytelling formats, trends, audience behavior, and content strategies.
• Ensure all written content follows copyright, sourcing, and brand guidelines.

Qualifications

• Proven experience writing scripts for
• YouTube or other long-form video platforms
• .
• Experience writing for documentaries, factual programming, historical content, or other research-driven formats.
• Excellent storytelling and writing skills, with a strong understanding of narrative structure and pacing.
• Excellent research skills
• , including the ability to find, evaluate, cross-reference, and synthesize information from multiple reliable sources.
• Ability to turn complex topics, historical events, and information-heavy subjects into engaging and easy-to-understand narratives.
• Strong understanding of YouTube audiences, retention, hooks, pacing, and storytelling conventions.
• Excellent command of written English.
• Strong organization and time management skills, with the ability to consistently deliver high-quality scripts on schedule.
• Comfortable working independently while also thriving in a collaborative, feedback-driven environment.

What Makes This Role Exciting

Shape the stories of Atrium

Play a key role in developing compelling narratives around fascinating historical events, real-world stories, and complex subjects.

Combine research with storytelling

Go beyond presenting facts by turning deep research into narratives that are entertaining, accessible, and memorable.

Reach a global audience

Create long-form YouTube content designed to engage viewers from around the world.

Work with a creative team

Collaborate closely with producers, researchers, and other creatives to develop and refine ideas from concept to final script.

Build a growing channel

Contribute directly to the development of Atrium's voice, storytelling style, and content library as the channel continues to grow.