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Content Developer for Online Courses
Imagine the last time you were in a classroom. Did you wish that your educational experience was better, and know that it could be? That's our mission as a company - to innovate the educational experience, by creating world-class engaging content that is interesting, helpful, and gets great results for both our clients and the students of these courses.
Great course content can be the difference between feeling like those memories of staring at a teacher droning on in 6th grade that still gives you nightmares, versus a fun and interactive experience that feels useful, inspiring, engaging, and the kind of course that will be seen literally millions of time by with their clients happily paying $500 - $5,000 for it.
Main goal: As project content developer you are responsible for helping us manage all our active client projects, as well as helping us drive forward continuous improvement on all sides of our organization that your position touches (not as scary as it sounds - if you have the skills, we have all the tools and processes already, just need some skilled manpower behind them to utilize them effectively).
What you'll be responsible for:
- Monitoring projects through Basecamp, to keep our clients updated on how projects are coming along, answering their questions, and supporting the rest of the team as we each work together on different facets of the project (from graphic design, to LMS configuration, video editing, to launch / marketing)
- Read books, PDFs, blogs, and listening workshops from a client in preparation for building their course
- Interview our treasured clients (subject matter experts and leaders in various industries across the globe) to serve the role of student, and guide. You will be asking our unique and extremely approach to this whole the client to learn what they have to teach, guiding them through structuring that into a course
- Collaborating with our other instructional design / course content development team members, to map out key course concepts
- Outlining the course / create the course curriculum
- Expanding the course curriculum into individual course lesson plans, including outlining the lesson plan content, and designing worksheets, quizzes, and other instructional design elements
Imagine a job where....
You get paid to learn as much as you possibly can directly from world-class experts.
You get to read books, take courses, write about and create multi-media content related to those topics.
You can work from home, or Buenos Aires, or Hawaii.
If this sounds amazing to you, we've got your perfect job.
We are looking to expand our team with someone who is super motivated, proactive, and fast learner to help us build courses for our clients.
You’ll be on the front lines interviewing clients, learning from them, and working with them to build new informational products.
You've got what it takes if you are...
- An excellent writer - the main thing you will be doing is 1) reading books and existing training materials from a client, 2) getting on the phone to interview them to fill in the gaps, and 3) outlining the course with them (including both writing up a thorough outline for the phone course and also figuring out how to best structure everything)
- An excellent problem solver
- Relationship-oriented and great on the phone. Great on the phone - people enjoy talking to you as you guide them through the course creation process
- Confident. Not arrogant, but also confident enough to sound like you know what you are talking about when you are on the phone with a client
- Fluent / Perfect English. I only hire 100% fluent English speakers. For this position in particular you need to be a native english speaker since you will be doing lots of writing.
- A passion for online courses, education, learning, teaching, and helping people
- Drive to learn. Due to the nature of this job it is essential that you have the perspective and drive to learn anything you need to learn - this role is centered around learning and then teaching (via creating courses)
- Great attitude. You must have an amazing attitude and be able to perform at your best even if you are jet-lagged, stressed, and confused about what you should be doing. *Deep breath, ok, what do I need to do next?*. If you need to be told what to do on a daily basis, this is not for you. You will need to have ownership of the things you do once you are trained on how to do them.
- Insanely dependable. There is a lot more to this position than existing skills. Dependability and responsiveness is more important to me than anything. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d take a dependable apprentice with a good attitude who is a 7 in terms of skills over an unresponsive apprentice with a bad attitude who is a 10 any day.
- Can find the answer - Have strong online research skills on topics that are new to you.
- Are very organized and never miss deadlines or emails.
- Superlative attention to detail. Our programs rely heavily on your work. We’ll count on you to surface and resolve issues along the way, as the integrity of your final product must be unquestionable.
Preferred:
- Experience building online courses
- Familiarity with e-learning Management Systems
- Experience working with a distributed team
- Project management skills
People who would probably not find this opportunity rewarding:
- People who only check their email once a week and respond to it once a month.
- People who say they will do something by tomorrow but then deliver it next week
- People who are passive-aggressive or uncomfortably communicating directly
- People who can only do work “when they are inspired.” Inspiration is overrated.
- People who like to write but aren’t into researching topics with which they are unfamiliar, or get stuck when they have to figure out something new
- People in it just for the money. This is for someone growth-oriented.
Compensation and Career
Per project basis, generally ranging from $750 - $1,500 USD per project, depending on project size and the quality of your work
We are looking for someone to grow and improve with the company
Why this opportunity is awesome
- This position is a great opportunity to get the “behind the scenes” look inside a fast-growing business (course production company) with a distributed team
- Work when, how, and where you want, including traveling. One of our team members has lived in Thailand, Vietnam, Budapest, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and more just during the 12 months she’s been with us.
- Plenty of training available. If you’re interested in getting your hands into other parts of the business, such as video editing or Photoshop, I’m happy to help you develop new skills.
- In fact, we have access to an entire massive library of courses from past projects that you can learn from (upwards of $50,000 worth of courses that you will get access to)
- For a qualified individual, there is room for growth in the company.
- If your primary focus is on getting this position just to make money, then this probably isn’t a great fit
- However, if you are interested in learning a ton, doing great work, working with super cool people and serving extremely interesting and varied clients (while also being compensated) then this is for you
For a qualified individual, there is room for growth in the company. If your primary focus is getting this position just to make money, then this probably isn’t a great fit (there are certainly faster and easier ways to make a quick buck - it's more about happiness, impact and doing something great).
However, if you are interested in learning a ton, doing great work, working with super cool people and serving extremely interesting and varied clients (while also being compensated), then this is for you.
Location
Remote, US timezones preferred. (Asia won’t really work for this position unless you are willing to have a crazy schedule long-term).
The experience of working with us:
“Working with MYE has been a great experience. Not only do I get to work from home and on my own time–which has also taught me a lot of self-motivation and time management–but I’ve also learned what it’s like to start your own business, and how to best go about it. Grant’s also super kind, flexible, and he helps/teaches you as much as possible so that you get as much out of the experience as possible.” – Digne
Who We Are
Monetize Your Expertise (aka MYE) is a course production company - we create online courses and training for people and companies by doing all of the heavy lifting for them. Rather than running in circles for 6-12 months or more, trying to figure out how to build an online course, we do it for them. It only ends up taking a few hours of their time, and the result is world-class!
All our clients have to do is show up on a series of interview calls with us, and then take a few hours to record the audio from an outline we provide to them, and we do the rest. It takes them about 25 hours total (instead of 12 months) and we do all the work outlining their course, incorporating any other materials they might have, creating slides, worksheets, quizzes and more, editing the videos into a finished course, setting it all up onto a learning management system (LMS) and marketing the course to generate revenue for them.
What We Offer
1. WORK WITH A FAST-GROWING BUSINESS
This position is a great opportunity to get the “behind the scenes” look inside a fast-growing business (course production company) with a great team.
2. WORK AUTONOMOUSLY
If you can deliver on expectations, you will have ample opportunity to work on your own terms (as long as you continuously deliver results)
3. MASSIVE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY
Plenty of training available. If you’re interested in getting your hands into other parts of the business, we're happy to help you develop new skills.
In fact, we have access to an entire massive library of courses from past projects that you can learn from (upwards of $50,000 worth of courses that you will get access to).
4. ROOM FOR GROWTH
For a qualified individual, there is room for growth in the company.
If your primary focus is getting this position just to make money, then this probably isn’t a great fit (there are certainly faster and easier ways to make a quick buck - it's more about happiness, impact and doing something great).
However, if you are interested in learning a ton, doing great work, working with super cool people and serving extremely interesting and varied clients (while also being compensated), then this is for you.
Our Culture
We are a team of people who all deeply care about doing good work, helping each other, and helping our clients. The work style of the team is pretty independent - we make sure everyone has what they need to do a great job and then everyone goes off and does deep work.
MYE doesn't try to grow as fast as possible, or make as much money as possible, or slave-drive employees. We value growth and learning and a well-rounded life. You can work in the way that is best for you, as long as you produce amazing results for our clients.
The most important thing - this isn't a job. You are becoming part of the "team" for our company. This means that we don't want someone to just clock in and clock out, and do the bare minimum just to get paid. We need you to actually care about what we do as a company, want to help us grow and improve.
Basically, if you just want to show up, get the work done, and go home, this is not for you.
If you will be excited to do the work, bringing with you tons of ideas for how the company can grow and do better... if you're pumped to think about where we are headed as a company, and seeing this opportunity as an investment in growing something greater than yourself, then you are our type of person.
Next steps / hiring process
- Please fill out the application from this page
- We will screen applications, and then set up a screener interview
- After that, we assign a test task (the test initial applicants will be sending you a short test task (please make sure you are up for this before applying)
- If you pass the test task, we do a final interview
- If you pass the final interview, we set up a real (paid) trial period / trial project (about 1 month)
- At the end of the period, if you perform well you will receive an offer for long-term employment
How To Apply
- Click the "Apply Now" button (top right or at the bottom)
- Answer the application questions
- While the headline is optional we prioritize applications that answer this question - we suggest you answer this with a one-line description of your position and the type of work that you do
- The application system requires a resume / CV. If you do not have a formal resume, we recommend attaching a work-sample that best illustrates the type of work you can do, which best illustrates your ability to perform the type of work described in this role. In fact, we also prioritize applications that include work-samples, as your ability to show you can do the work helps us make the decision to hire you with more confidence more so than what your degree is in. If you would like to include both, you can attach 1 file and include a link in your cover letter to the others.
- While a cover letter is not mandatory, we recommend using this space to explore the answer to these questions: "How could you prove that you can do the work described in this position? If you were hiring for this position, and had 999 other applicants, would you confidently hire hire yourself? Why or why not?"