Market Insights Video Correspondent (Independent Contractor)

Palo Alto, CA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradContract

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end video coverage of market and macro trends for young professionals, from topic pitching and scripting to filming, editing, and social distribution, delivering timely, valuable content.

  • Translate financial news into digestible video content
  • Coordinate with content and compliance teams to ensure accuracy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as on-camera correspondent and generate high-quality, timely videos relevant to current market and macroeconomic news that help young professionals navigate market trends and build their financial confidence.
  • Pitch video topics, write scripts, and film and edit videos with input from Wealthfront’s content and compliance teams.
  • Develop unique video content that delivers value to Wealthfront’s target audience and increases engagement on social media channels.
  • Stay on top of social media and economic trends and recommend new video formats as relevant.

Requirements

  • Expertise in investing and personal finance strategies, macroeconomic data, and impact of overarching financial trends on young professionals.
  • Storytelling creativity and ability to translate financial news and data into unique, digestible content.
  • Social media savvy and demonstrated experience creating video content on TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, and/or LinkedIn strongly preferred.
  • Passion for creating videos that help explain timely financial market and macroeconomic stories.
  • Demonstrated background in economics required. (This could include an economics degree, experience working as a data scientist or analyst at a prominent financial institution, or experience as a reporter, broadcast journalist, or data analyst at a financial publication.)

Preferred

  • Social media savvy and demonstrated experience creating video content on TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, and/or LinkedIn strongly preferred.
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Wealthfront integrates investing and saving products to help young professionals build long-term wealth in any market condition. Through software, we deliver high-yield savings through partner banks, diversified ETF and bond ETF investing, zero-commission stock investing, and low-cost loans to help both sophisticated and new investors learn, lower costs, and grow wealth.To learn more please visit www.wealthfront.com or download the app on the App Store or Google Play.Disclosures: https://bit.ly/3NFsXzg wlthfrnt.co/m/linkinbio

Founded in 2011
Palo Alto, California, USA
437 employees (64 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
95% CEO approval

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
41 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
2.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$274.2M
Last Raise
$69.7M
Convertible Note, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2022
    Convertible Note • $69.7M
  • Jan 2018
    Series E • $75M
  • Oct 2014
    Series D • $64M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.1%
Direct
77.5%
Referral
2.6%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~441

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