✍️ We’re adding full-time storytelling jobs — and here’s why

Why we're adding remote storytelling roles to the writing job board.

Hey writer,

If you’ve been here a while, you might remember a post Amy wrote earlier this year called “Why There Are No Full-Time Jobs on the Writing Job Board.” And we still stand by the reasons Amy talked about there about why freelance gives writers more freedom.

We still believe freelancing is the best way to build a writing life that funds your freedom: flexible schedule, location autonomy, multiple income streams, and zero asking a boss for permission to go live your life.

So… why are we adding full-time jobs?

Because in the last few months, something’s been happening in the market that’s too big (and too good for writers) to ignore.

👀 What’s Changed

We’ve started seeing rare, truly excellent full-time roles that aren’t “generic content jobs.”

They’re high-level storytelling positions, the kind where you’re shaping narrative, voice, and brand identity at companies that take writing seriously. Think:

• Head of Narrative / Story / Editorial

• Customer storytelling

• Corporate editorial & meme creation

• Narrative strategy inside marketing/brand/comms

• Story-driven product and brand experiences

Some of these roles are coming through with serious compensation (we’re talking $200K–$300K range in some cases), and they’re showing up at the kinds of companies writers actually want on their resume.

There was even a role circulating recently for Vanta that made me pause — because it wasn’t “write blog posts forever.” It was Head of Storytelling. That’s a fundamentally different kind of job worthy of brilliant creative minds.

And then the Wall Street Journal piece landed that basically confirmed what we’ve been noticing: companies are actively trying to wrestle back control of their narratives and are hiring for “storytelling” skill sets in a way we haven’t seen at this scale before.

So after a lot of deliberation, we decided: it’s time to give you access to these opportunities, too.

💻 What’s Not Changing (This Part Matters)

Let me be super clear:

We’re still freelancer-forward.

You’ll still get everything you’ve always gotten — high-paying freelance gigs, ghostwriting opportunities, creative leads, and the job board cadence you’re used to.

This is an addition, not a pivot.

And we’re keeping our standards.

👉 Our Rules for Full-Time Listings We Include:

• Remote only. (You shouldn’t have to uproot your life and move to SF/NYC to do great work.)

• Deeply-desirable roles. (If it’s not a real writing or storytelling job that pays very well, it’s not going up.)

• High quality over high quantity. (We’re not flooding the board. We’re curating.)

🙌 Why This Helps You

Because there are seasons to a writing life.

For some writers, the dream is:

• freelance forever

• build a portfolio career

• travel whenever you want

• stack clients + projects + your own creative work

For other writers, the dream (right now) might be:

• take a great full-time storytelling role

• get a stable base salary + benefits

• build your Substack/book/freelance pipeline on the side

• submit to pitches, contests, grants, or residencies in the meantime

• then pivot later with more leverage

Both are valid. Our job is to help you have options — and more importantly, great options.

And the truth is: these high-end storytelling roles can be hard to find if you’re not already looking in the right places. But our systems naturally surface them. So it didn’t feel right to keep bypassing them when they could change someone’s life in this community.

❤️ You’re Getting More (No Price Increase)

This is important, too: your subscription isn’t changing.

You’re just getting more opportunities — freelance plus a carefully curated selection of remote full-time roles worth your time.

📣 One More Thing (And It Ties Directly Into Why We’re Adding Full-Time Remote Roles)

Even if you take a full-time storytelling job, we still believe you should be building your own world on the side.

Your portfolio. Your voice. Your body of work. Your audience.

Because the best-case scenario isn’t “full-time forever.” It’s having options. It’s being able to say yes to the right things (and no to the wrong ones) because you’ve built something that belongs to you.

And we think Substack is the #1 place to do that.

It’s where you can:

• cultivate a voice that’s truly yours (not just a brand’s),

• publish consistently without gatekeepers,

• attract future clients outside of your day job,

• build an audience for the book you want to write,

• and create a direct line to the people who love what you do.

We genuinely believe the future belongs to writers who can gather and nurture their own community — the people who want their stories, their perspective, their brain on the page.

Because you don’t need a million followers.

You need 1,000 true fans — the kind who’d happily pay you $100/year—and your life can change.

Which brings me to this:

Today is the last day to get a 1-on-1 Substack audit with Amy (a $1,000 value) when you join her Six-Week Substack Sprint Workshop Series — and you can get it just by becoming a Founding Member at her publication Sutoscience ($350):

If you’re considering full-time roles and you want to build your long-term writing life at the same time, this is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Click here learn more + subscribe.

We’re here to support you — whether you’re freelancing, going full-time, building your Substack, writing your book, or all of the above.

Keep writing. Keep creating. We’re cheering for you.

— Make Writing Your Job Team 💛