Creative Writer, Story Intelligence

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San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
45K-150K Annually
1-3 Years Experience
News + Entertainment
Inkitt believes that every author should have an equal chance to succeed.
The Role
In this role, you'll produce novel-length manuscripts and engage in collaborative storyboarding. You'll analyze data to improve storytelling, adapt existing content, and gather user feedback to enhance our app. The position demands creativity, data-driven decision making, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

What you'll do:

  • Writing pages and producing novel length manuscripts used to publish on Galatea and GalateaTV
  • Extensive experience primarily in romance, fantasy, thriller, and all related sub-genres.
  • Storyboarding and collaborating on novel ideation in a writer’s room environment
  • Reading and adapting existing content to improve them and make them more marketable and profitable
  • Dissecting stories and building processes for systematic improvement.
  • Analyzing data and interpreting trends to improve our stories
  • Applying data based learnings creatively to your writing
  • Collaborating with other departments at the company (marketing, product, data science, etc.) as necessary to ensure the best possible product
  • Speaking with our users and getting active feedback from them weekly on how they enjoy the app and our stories so we can improve on them
  • Keep an active pulse on what’s popular and what’s working in the industry
  • Move quickly in a fast paced environment that may require priority shifts and dropping or picking up new assignments

Who We Are Looking For:

  • Autonomous
  • Bring solutions instead of problems
  • Data driven
  • Quick to action
  • A high functioning workaholic
  • Looking for exponential career growth
  • Have lots of fun building a generational AI x Entertainment company

What we offer:

  • 401k plan, designed to help you save for the future
  • Health benefits tailored to your needs, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Professional coaching for everyone
  • Team-building events, including our annual Tulum trip
  • Unlimited access to our Galatea app and Galatea TV app. 
  • Unlimited budget for self-development books
  • Charity donation of your choice at your one year anniversary
  • Free lunch in office everyday
  • Class Pass membership for US based employee and gym access for Berlin employees
  • Dog/cat friendly offices in Berlin and San Francisco

At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply. 


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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
85 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Why Work With Us

We are on a mission to discover hidden talents and turn them into globally successful authors. At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members.

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