Writer Job at ImagineArt in New York

ImagineArt shipped a platform that's years ahead of what most AI tools can do. The storytelling hasn't caught up. The Soul Department is being built to fix that: a small serious team that owns the company's point of view, posture, and taste, and briefs the rest of the house to make it real. A taste engine, not a content team.

We're hiring six writers, thinkers & critics.

Editor-in-Chief
The keeper of the worldview. You own the voice document, edit every writer on the team without erasing them, and say the final yes or no on whether a piece of work sounds like us. A rare hire. Non-negotiable.

You've probably

Run a small but distinctive publication, zine, or brand voice

Edited other writers and made them better without rewriting them

Shipped work with a point of view that someone publicly hated

Written under your own name somewhere real

Not a fit if

You're a content marketer with an editor title

You need a brief to know what good looks like

You've never killed your own draft to protect a voice

"Make the house style unmistakable."02The Rambler

Long-Form Writer
Essays, keynote scripts, deep-dive videos, the one piece a year that defines the year. You think in arcs and pay off in conclusions. You've written fiction, especially fiction, and non-fiction, and the muscle shows in everything you touch.

You've probably

Published fiction or non-fiction in a literary magazine, anthology, or review

Submitted to a workshop or residency with a real filter (Bread Loaf, Tin House, Iowa, Sewanee, South Asia Speaks)

Kept a Substack or Medium with actual readers, not just pageviews

Finished something long. A novel, a novella, a 6,000 word piece

Not a fit if

Your strongest samples are SEO blog posts

You write in passive voice and don't know you do

You need a word count to start

"Write the thing people screenshot a year later."03The Dopamine Hit

Short-Form Writer
Captions, hooks, headlines, taglines, the one line that makes a Reel work. You think in rhythm, inversion, and punchlines. You understand memes as language, not just as content, and your sense of humor is sharp enough to land without becoming a liability.

You've probably

Run a meme account, newsletter, or feed with an identifiable voice

Written a line you'd be proud to see on a billboard

Cut a caption in half and watched it perform better

Been quietly funnier than the people paid to be funny around you

Not a fit if

Your definition of edgy is just being rude

You only have one voice, your own, and it never adapts

You think brevity is the same as emptiness

"Fewer words. More weight. Funnier."04The Antenna

Cultural Researcher
The antenna. You live on X, Reddit, Discord, Substack, and four places nobody else on the team has found yet. You read novels and watch films because AI culture isn't the only culture. Every Monday you ship one tight brief that every other person reads before they open their laptop.

You've probably

Written about internet culture somewhere people read

Been terminally online productively, not performatively

Known a trend would break three weeks before it did

Read outside your field on purpose, often

Not a fit if

Your cultural diet is only AI Twitter

You call yourself a trend forecaster

You've never publicly changed your mind about something

"Tell us what's coming, not what just happened."05The Diagnostician

Attention Engineer /
Behavioral Psychologist
Not a consultant, a teammate. You sit with the writers, the researcher, the ideator, and explain why things spread, stick, or die. You've taken theory and actually used it on real work, with measurable proof that something improved because you were involved. Half scientist, half editor.

You've probably

A background in cognitive science, behavioral econ, or media psychology

Implemented a framework on a real campaign, product, or platform and can show the before and after

Read Kahneman, Berger, Thaler, and disagreed with parts out loud

Explained a complicated finding to a non-academic in one paragraph

Not a fit if

You want to publish papers, not ship work

You think \"attention\" is a growth-hacking term

You cite studies without reading them

You can tell us what works but can't show where you made it work

"Know why it worked. Show the receipts."06The Critic

Social Commentator
Anthropology, sociology, or history background. Experience optional. What's not optional is the instinct to take a SaaS product, a trend, a film, a subculture, and break down why it worked, who it served, and what it said about the moment it arrived in.

You've probably

A degree in anthropology, sociology, history, or an adjacent humanities discipline

Written case-study style analyses of films, products, movements, or moments, somewhere public

A habit of explaining the present by pointing at the past

An opinion about why Duolingo's owl works, and why Sora's rollout was a cultural event, not a product launch

Not a fit if

You treat theory as decoration, not tool

You can describe a moment but not argue about it

You're looking for a stepping-stone job, not this one

"Explain the present. Then tell us what it means."

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