YouTube Line Producer

Contract: approximately 1 month contracted engagement

Comp: $5,000 cap for the engagement (project-based fee)

Location: Fully remote, any time zone is ok (North America preferred)

Who We Are

Four years ago, Dragonfruit set out to bring together some of the most talented visual storytellers, viral video strategists, and big-name clients, to change the way we create and consume on YouTube.

Since then, we've generated over a billion organic views and hundreds of millions of subscribers for creators like MrBeast, Ali Abdaal, Mark Manson, Chris Williamson, Codie Sanchez, and organizations like Y Combinator, e.l.f. Beauty, WHOOP, ClickUp, and the Center for Humane Technology. We're not here to chase cheap clicks, we're here to make YouTube smarter.

Dragonfruit's Mission

Dragonfruit exists to help the world's most important ideas travel farther. We partner with experts, educators, scientists, founders, and creators to turn deep knowledge into media people actually want to watch, share, and act on. In a world where attention is often optimized for noise, we're building a company that rewards clarity, substance, and human impact, combining creative judgment, production craft, and AI-powered systems to help better information reach more people. Our mission is to build the creative infrastructure for a healthier, more thoughtful internet.

What You'll Do

• Establish the contractor legal framework: engage and manage the legal review needed to create independent contractor consent forms and deal memos, then own that paperwork going forward.
• Secure studio insurance coverage: put in place rental gear coverage, liability coverage across all studio client shoots, coverage for the studio arm itself, location rental coverage, and any other exposure that needs protecting.
• Set up accounting and tax processes: build out the accounting and tax processes the studio will operate on, in partnership with our accounting team.
• Build the budget process: design the budget workflow and reporting so studio leadership has clear visibility into the overall operating budget and financial picture.
• Automate invoice approval: build a workflow where an incoming vendor or freelancer invoice automatically generates a comparison against budget, making approval quick and simple, then routes the approved invoice to accounting for processing.
• Integrate QuickBooks: set up the links that make contractor and employee tax filing straightforward for freelance and contracted hires, built with an eye toward converting existing freelancers to full-time in future.
• Stand up the studio card: establish a studio company card that routes all charges to a dedicated studio category in QuickBooks.

Skills and Qualifications

• Comfortable procuring and managing production insurance: rental gear, general liability, entity coverage, location coverage, and Certificates of Insurance (COIs).
• Experience drafting contractor consent forms, deal memos, and release paperwork, and comfortable scoping and managing that engagement yourself.
• Working knowledge of finance and accounting workflow setup, including QuickBooks, expense categorization, and contractor and employee tax filing (1099 for US-based crew, W-8BEN for international).
• Track record of building budget processes and financial reporting that leadership can act on, not just per-production cost tracking.
• Comfortable designing repeatable processes and automations rather than handling everything manually. Familiarity with tools like ClickUp is a plus.
• Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills, with the judgment to identify gaps and close them without being asked.
• Strong understanding of YouTube and digital content formats preferred.