YouTube Lead (AI Search)

Pepper helps brands win organic search, AI search, and every organic channel that drives growth. YouTube is one of the most powerful and underused: it's the world's second-largest search engine, its videos compound for years, and it increasingly feeds both Google and AI-driven discovery.

We're looking for a YouTube Lead to own this channel for our customers — turning video into a durable engine for visibility, trust, and demand.

If you understand how YouTube actually grows channels and want to do it for ambitious brands, this one's for you.

About the role

As YouTube Lead, you'll own YouTube strategy and execution across a set of customer accounts, working inside our Organic Growth pods. You'll shape what each brand publishes, how it's packaged, and how the channel grows over time. You'll have playbooks, AI workflows, and a strong team behind you.

What you'll do

• Own each customer's YouTube strategy: positioning, content pillars, formats, and cadence
• Turn topics into video concepts that earn both search and suggested-feed discovery
• Drive strong packaging — titles, thumbnails, hooks, and retention — because that's what decides whether a video wins
• Build briefs and direction the production team and creators can execute on
• Grow channels deliberately: search-led evergreen video plus content built to be recommended
• Repurpose video into clips and other formats so each piece works harder across channels
• Track performance (impressions, CTR, retention, watch time, subscribers) and report it clearly

Go deep on how YouTube actually grows

This is the heart of the role:

• Understand the two engines of YouTube discovery — search and suggested — and how to win each
• Know what drives the algorithm: click-through rate, retention, and satisfaction, and how to design for them
• Build evergreen, search-led video that compounds, alongside content engineered to be recommended
• Understand how YouTube feeds Google results and AI-driven discovery, and use that to extend reach
• Have a real point of view on packaging and storytelling, not just keywords

What you'll bring

• Hands-on YouTube experience — you've grown a channel or run YouTube content and understand why videos win or stall
• A confident grasp of YouTube SEO, packaging, and retention
• An understanding of how YouTube connects to broader search and AI discovery
• Strong creative judgment plus comfort with data
• An ownership mindset and comfort working across a few accounts
• Comfort using AI tools to work faster — we'll help you level up

Nice to have

• A track record of growing a YouTube channel (your own or a brand's)
• Experience with scripting, editing direction, or video production workflows
• A background in organic growth, content, or video marketing

Why you'll love it here

• You'll own a channel with massive, compounding upside for our customers
• Real support: onboarding, playbooks, AI workflows, and a strong pod around you
• A focused book of accounts so you can go deep, not spread thin
• Room to grow as we scale the team