Creative Lead, Production & Creative Operations (Post-Sale)

MrBeast
Greenville, NC
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with native production floor experience and fluency in writers' rooms, comfortable with high-frequency pivots and on-the-ground coordination.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10–15 years of experience in integrated production or creative operations at a top-tier creator studio or network.
    — “10–15 years of experience in branded content production, integrated production creative direction, or in-studio creative operations at a network, streamer, agency production arm, or top-tier creator studio.”
  • Individuals who have worked on sets and in edit bays, with a strong grasp of production workflow stages like call sheets and shot lists.
    — “Native production floor experience. You have been on sets. You have been in edit bays.”
  • Candidates who can advocate for brand integration within creative structures without being involved in the actual writing process.
    — “Writers' room fluency. You can sit in a writers' room and contribute meaningfully — not by writing the video, but by advocating for the brand-integration beat inside the creative structure.”

Things to consider

  • This role requires frequent travel and on-set presence during shoots, which may not align with remote-only preferences.
    — “Be on the ground during shoots to help when Jimmy pivots.”
  • Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to Greenville, NC, due to the need for studio presence.
    — “Studio-adjacent geography. This role requires meaningful presence at the Studio (Greenville).”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in aligning brand needs with creative workflows during pre-production and writing phases.
    — “You take the sold idea and shepherd it through the studio to delivery.”
  • Emphasize past experience in explaining creative trade-offs to clients during production changes.
    — “Explain creative trade-offs to the client when reality diverges from the pitch.”
  • Showcase familiarity with production planning and the ability to insert brand requirements early in the process.
    — “Get brand needs into the right production conversations at the right time.”
  • Demonstrate adaptability by emphasizing experience with high-frequency pivots or changes in creative plans.
    — “Comfort with high-frequency pivots. MrBeast's creative process pivots.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful brand integration
  • high-quality video production
Typical background
creative directionproduction coordination

Skills & requirements

Required

Creative DirectionProduction CoordinationBrand IntegrationPost-sale OperationsVideo Production

Preferred

PhilanthropySocial Impact

Stack & domain

Creative IntegrationProduction CoordinationBrand Needs ManagementShooting SupportClient CommunicationCreative Trade-offsLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingAdaptabilityCommunicationTeam ManagementDigital MediaPhilanthropyConsumer ProductsInnovative Business Initiatives

About the role

Original posting from MrBeast via Greenhouse

About Us

Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.

Creative Lead, Production & Creative Operations (Post-Sale)

Location: Greenville, plus production travel required

You take the sold idea and shepherd it through the studio to delivery. Once a deal closes and the Strategist hands off to Activation, you become the creative counterpart on the production side — making sure the integration is written into the video early enough (not tacked on in post), coordinating across the writers' room, the social team, and Studio production, keeping assets sequenced correctly across channels, getting brand needs into the right production conversations at the right time, and being on the ground during shoots to help when Jimmy pivots. Support brand calls. Explain creative trade-offs to the client when reality diverges from the pitch.

What you'll actually do

            Own the creative integration inside the writers' room. When a sold integration hits the writing phase, you are the person who makes sure it gets written into the video early enough to be an organic story beat, not a bolted-on interruption. 

            Coordinate across writers' room, social team, and Studio production. You keep the creative sequencing coherent across all of them.

            Get brand needs into the right production conversations at the right time. The client's must-haves (product visibility, brand messaging, disclosure requirements, key visual guidelines) need to land at the production planning stage, not on the shoot day. You're the person carrying those requirements into the production room, and making sure that any branded assets that need to be purchased or built are ready on filming day.

            Be on the ground during shoots to help when Jimmy pivots. When a shoot pivots — you partner with the Activation AD as creative representatives who makes sure the client's core brand needs are still met inside the pivot. 

            Support brand calls. When the Activation AD is on a client call and the conversation gets into creative trade-offs (e.g. "we had to cut the second product beat because it didn't fit the runtime"), you're the person on the call who can explain the trade-off if necessary.

            Feed learnings back to the Pitch Creative Lead. Patterns you see in production — what actually works when it hits the studio, what breaks — inform the next round of pre-sale concepts.

What we're looking for (candidate profile)

            10–15 years of experience in branded content production, integrated production creative direction, or in-studio creative operations at a network, streamer, agency production arm, or top-tier creator studio.

            Native production floor experience. You have been on sets. You have been in edit bays. You understand the operational rhythm of production and post — call sheets, shot lists, dailies, edit locks — well enough to insert brand needs at exactly the right point in the workflow.

            Writers' room fluency. You can sit in a writers' room and contribute meaningfully — not by writing the video, but by advocating for the brand-integration beat inside the creative structure. This is a distinctive skill and a required one.

            Studio-adjacent geography. This role requires meaningful presence at the Studio (Greenville).

            Comfort with high-frequency pivots. MrBeast's creative process pivots. That's the operating model. You need to be someone whose default response to a pivot is "here's how we protect the brand need inside the new plan" — not frustration that the plan changed.

Benefits

The Perks, Why Work On the MrBeast Team

We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.

Competitive Salary

Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance 

Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA) 

401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching

Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays

Company-provided technology package 

Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days

Source: MrBeast careers (Greenhouse)

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