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Position Overview

You're the first in a generation of AI native writers. You build sophisticated workflows for creating the right content for the right platform. You're on the cutting edge, delivering high-quality output and knowing when to add the human touch.

This isn't a role to outsource; this is about supercharging your innate talent.

If this is you. We want you.

You'll be part of the future of our company across the company as a strong writer, creator, builder with great taste who wants to break into high-growth business content for Contrarian Thinking, an investment and advisory firm founded by founder Codie Sanchez.

You'll be responsible for writing high-performing short-form business content and helping shape how Contrarian Thinking shows up across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.

This role sits at the intersection of AI, vibe-coding, writing, trend analysis, and social strategy. You'll write scripts, study what's working across short-form platforms, and adapt winning formats into content that performs.

If you're obsessed with storytelling and technology colliding, and eager to learn fast inside a high-performance team, this role is for you. You will report to the Short Form Creative Lead & have a direct line to Codie.

Who We Are

What is Contrarian Thinking? We are an investment and advisory company led by Codie Sanchez, 15+ year veteran of private equity and operator of a portfolio of Main Street businesses.

• We are building an ecosystem of profitable, fast-growing businesses that multiply.
• Our unfair CT Trifold Advantage: Operating systems from private equity, an ecosystem of businesses and their data, supported by content and audience.
  • Operating Systems + Ecosystem + Audience
• We Serve Lower Middle Market: $2M - $50M in revenue

We help owners BUY, SCALE, SELL. We buy businesses, teach our partners how to do acquisitions, and then we help them scale to create enduring businesses they love to run. We build tools like BizScout (one of the largest business acquisition marketplaces in the world), Growth Boardroom (an operating system and community for business owners over $1M+), and Contrarian Thinking Capital (a venture capital firm investing in innovation for the next generation of businesses).

What Your Days Will Look Like…

• BUILD AND CREATE COOL THINGS!
• Treat short-form platforms as programmable environments
  • Reverse-engineer incentives, ranking signals, and attention curves
• Use AI as a thinking multiplier, not a drafting assistant
  • Chain LLMs to explore angles, counter-angles, and edge cases
  • Compress hours of ideation into minutes
  • Override AI outputs with taste, judgment, and domain fluency
• Build and maintain vibe-coded content systems
  • Prompt stacks for hooks, rewrites, compression, and polarity
  • Script generators that output platform-specific variants
  • Libraries of reusable formats that compound over time
• Translate complex business concepts into low-entropy, high-signal language
• Write scripts as executable artifacts
• Collaborate with creators and editors as a systems architect
• Treat performance data as training signals, iterate formats algorithmically
  • Feed retention curves back into prompt systems

What We're Looking For

• Strong taste - you've got opinions and data to back them
• Obsessed with vibe coding, tech and learning
• Building currently on AI systems
• Genuinely obsessed with storytelling and short-form content
• Comfortable learning fast and iterating based on feedback
• Strong grasp of TikTok, X, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts
• Ability to recognize viral hooks and repeatable formats
• Clear, concise communicator with attention to detail
• Organized, proactive, and dependable

Location

This position requires full-time, in-office work at our Austin, Texas headquarters. Applicants must reside (or be willing to relocate) to within a 1-hour drive of Austin to be considered.

Type of Employment

Full-Time

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