⚠ Please read first- This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco (Presidio) - we work from the office 5 days a week.
- You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.
- We require US work authorisation, but are open to O-1 or J-1 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.
We're looking for a story crafter. Not a video editor, not a social manager, not a brand cop. Someone who owns the narrative of what Sauna is in the world: pulls it out of the founder's head, adds their own taste, and pushes it out until people feel it. You tell that story beautifully with visuals: motion, film, and the whole creative surface.
What you'll own- The narrative of Sauna, in the world - extract the story from the founder + product, sharpen it with your own POV, make it land everywhere.
- The story, told in visuals - find the human reason anyone should care, then make it move people. The heart of the role.
- Motion + video, end to end - concept, shoot, motion design, edit, publish. Hands-on in the timeline.
- Instagram + our social presence - set the visual/editorial direction and keep it coherent.
- Creative pipelines that output at volume - build repeatable systems (Sauna itself, Claude Code, AI tooling) so we ship a lot, fast. Volume with taste.
Who thrives here- Crafts stories that move people; can point to work that traveled and say why it worked.
- Real motion-design chops - and in the AI era that now includes HTML/CSS/code, not just After Effects/C4D/Blender.
- Could be the creator, not just the director (Johnny Harris style), or cast + direct one. Either way knows what makes that video work.
- Has built with Claude Code (or similar) + AI creative tooling - wired up their own pipelines, not just prompted once.
- Takes an idea from zero to published without being managed there.
