LEAD STORYTELLER
ROLE
As a Lead Storyteller, you'll lead a team of 8 to 10 storytellers, review every story they create, and make sure only great stories reach an audience.
PlotPointe is built on one belief: there are fundamental laws of storytelling. The laws are already ours. Your job is to make them land. Laws on paper don't tell a single story. Someone has to put them in every storyteller's hands, hold every story to them, and make sure they actually get used. That's you.
You're here to scale what makes a story great, not your own personal taste. The laws aren't a formula or a checklist. They explain why great stories work, and every piece of feedback you give comes from them, not from what you happen to like. When you think the laws are missing something, you don't work around them. You bring it to the team with the stories that prove it, and you help push the laws forward for everyone.
The hard part isn't managing people. It's looking at a story objectively, explaining exactly why it works or doesn't, and teaching it so clearly that your storytellers can do it on their own next time.
Most of your time, about 70 to 80 percent, goes to reviewing stories and training your team. The rest goes to creating your own stories, because that's how you keep your touch and how your team keeps trusting you. Reviewing is the visible part. Studying what worked, building training, and helping each storyteller grow is most of the job.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Enforce the laws: hold every story to the laws of storytelling, every time, and never let your own taste decide what passes.
- Review every story: read everything your team creates, every day, and decide whether it's ready for an audience or needs another pass, always with a clear reason.
- Give feedback that teaches: explain what isn't working, why, and how the change makes the story stronger, in whatever form helps each storyteller most: a live session, written notes or a recorded walkthrough.
- Make your storytellers better: train each person on the laws one piece at a time, point them at what they do best, and push them out of their comfort zone on purpose.
- Keep great stories moving: make sure enough stories get through every week that we publish consistently, and push stories that are good enough toward the best version they can be.
- Study what works: look at what the audience actually did, find out why stories worked or didn't, and turn what you learn into lessons the whole company can use.
- Push the laws forward: when you see something the laws don't cover yet, bring it up with the stories that prove it, instead of making up your own rule.
- Build the training: when your whole team keeps hitting the same problem, turn the fix into a guide that shows them how to use the laws better. A guide never replaces the laws or adds your own rules. It explains how to apply them, so what works for one storyteller can scale to every storyteller who walks in.
- Keep creating: keep telling your own stories so you never lose your touch.
- Look after your team: bring new storytellers up to speed, check in with each person, and train someone who could one day take your seat.
REQUIREMENTS
We don't care about your résumé or your credentials. We care whether you can do the work.
- A storyteller first, who can hold your own with the people you lead.
- Able to explain why a story works, not just feel it. Here, the best explainer leads, not the best storyteller.
- Objective. You'll pass a story you personally dislike when it does what great stories do, and you never reject an idea, only the execution.
- Direct. Your feedback is honest and specific, because being too nice helps nobody.
- A teacher at heart. You'd rather let a mistake happen where it's cheap and teach from it than quietly fix it yourself.
- All in. This is your main thing, not a side job.
- Fast. We move very fast, and you connect what you see across stories quickly.
This role isn't for you if:
- You just want to get paid to do a job.
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