Position Overview
You’re the first in a generation of AI native writers. You build sophisticated workflows for creating the right content for the right platform. You’re on the cutting edge, delivering high-quality output and knowing when to add the human touch.
This isn’t a role to outsource; this is about supercharging your innate talent.
If this is you. We want you.
You’ll be part of the future of our company across the company as a strong writer, creator, builder with great taste who wants to break into high-growth business content for Contrarian Thinking, an investment and advisory firm founded by founder Codie Sanchez.
You’ll be responsible for writing high-performing short-form business content and helping shape how Contrarian Thinking shows up across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.
This role sits at the intersection of AI, vibe-coding, writing, trend analysis, and social strategy. You’ll write scripts, study what’s working across short-form platforms, and adapt winning formats into content that performs.
If you’re obsessed with storytelling and technology colliding, and eager to learn fast inside a high-performance team, this role is for you. You will report to the Short Form Creative Lead & have a direct line to Codie.
What is Contrarian Thinking?
Who are we: We are an investment and advisory firm powered by media and led by veterans of Wall Street, Private Equity, and operators of Main Street businesses. We help owners BUY, SCALE, and SELL businesses.
Our Ecosystem:
- Capital & Investment Company - We invest millions annually in businesses, and support our portfolio businesses in scaling to create enduring, profitable businesses they love to run, but also change the world.
- Events & Community - We help business buyers and builders with live workshops, weekly calls, and annual events around the country. We have two types of communities: 1) For Buyers - a vetted community of buyers who utilize our campus, curriculum, and advisors to buy or invest in businesses, and 2) For Builders - a community and events where we help builders use our proven scaling systems, advisors, and curriculum to grow profitable, enduring businesses.
- Media & Content - We aim to be the biggest and most trusted business media company in the world - through podcasts, YouTube, books, and online education. We aim to make business and finance content better than any University degree.
Come build with us.
What Your Days Will Look Like…
- BUILD AND CREATE COOL THINGS!
- Treat short-form platforms as programmable environments
- Reverse-engineer incentives, ranking signals, and attention curves
- Use AI as a thinking multiplier, not a drafting assistant
- Chain LLMs to explore angles, counter-angles, and edge cases
- Compress hours of ideation into minutes
- Override AI outputs with taste, judgment, and domain fluency
- Build and maintain vibe-coded content systems
- Prompt stacks for hooks, rewrites, compression, and polarity
- Script generators that output platform-specific variants
- Libraries of reusable formats that compound over time
- Translate complex business concepts into low-entropy, high-signal language
- Write scripts as executable artifacts
- Collaborate with creators and editors as a systems architect
- Treat performance data as training signals, iterate formats algorithmically
- Feed retention curves back into prompt systems
What We’re Looking For
- Strong taste - you’ve got opinions and data to back them
- Obsessed with vibe coding, tech and learning
- Building currently on AI systems
- Genuinely obsessed with storytelling and short-form content
- Comfortable learning fast and iterating based on feedback
- Strong grasp of TikTok, X, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts
- Ability to recognize viral hooks and repeatable formats
- Clear, concise communicator with attention to detail
- Organized, proactive, and dependable
Location
This position requires full-time, in-office work at our Austin, Texas headquarters. Applicants must reside (or be willing to relocate) to within a 1-hour drive of Austin to be considered.
Type of Employment
Full-Time