We're looking for a creator to make career and lifestyle shorts for MentorCruise's Instagram and TikTok. Paid per short, roughly 15 to 20 a month, fully remote, and you get real creative freedom.
About MentorCruise
MentorCruise is a mentorship marketplace where people get 1:1 help from experienced mentors in tech, product, design, data and more. We've been around since 2019, have 4,000+ vetted mentors and 60,000+ mentorship engagements, and we're a small, fully remote, bootstrapped team.
The role
You make shorts for our Instagram and TikTok. Topics are career-focused but not corporate: coaching, mentorship, AI and work, job hunting, levelling up, the stuff people actually think about around their jobs. Think lifestyle-y career content, not ads.
- You come up with the ideas, film, edit, and deliver ready-to-post vertical videos. We post them, and you're welcome to cross-post on your own account too.
- Full creative freedom on format, tone and topics. We won't hand you scripts.
- MentorCruise shows up naturally when it fits, not as an ad read in every video.
- A short monthly check-in on what's working and what isn't.
The few ground rules: no made-up claims about mentors, results or salaries, and a clear partnership disclosure on anything you post to your own channel.
What we're looking for
- You're comfortable talking to camera, and you've made shorts you actually appear in.
- You know what makes someone keep watching past the first two seconds.
- You care about careers, work or AI, ideally because you're living it (early in a tech career, switching careers, building your own thing).
- Natural, fluent English on camera.
- You can reliably ship 8 to 12 shorts a month.
Nice to have: a small audience of your own on TikTok or Instagram, or having used mentorship or coaching yourself. Not needed: a big following or fancy gear. A phone is fine.
Pay and terms
- Independent contractor, fully remote, any time zone.
- $100-125 per finished short depending on experience, paid monthly on invoice.
- Up to 20 shorts a month, month-to-month after the trial.
- A bonus for shorts that break out. We'll agree the threshold together.
- Usage rights for our organic channels and paid ads are included in the rate.
How to apply
- Send links to 2 or 3 shorts you appear in.
- Record a 60-second edited intro on your phone: who you are, plus one short idea you'd make for us.
Shortlisted people make 3 shorts as a paid trial, at their normal rate. We post them, see how they do over a few weeks, and keep going with whoever's working best.