Director, Client Engagement
Storied | Remote | 20 hours a week | 1099 retainer, $6K a month | Starts November or December
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This seat is for someone who loves the craft of strategic narrative and wants to practice it where AI is changing how narratives get built, managed, and installed at scale.
Our clients include VC and PE funds and startups raising capital, civic and nonprofit organizations, global life sciences, and enterprise software. The industries differ, and the condition is the same: something complex and hard to explain, where the language has to work before the strategy can.
It’s built for someone who’s led comms in-house and now runs an independent practice. If you love doing the work and would rather not spend your weeks selling it or building a book of business, this gives you steady, high-stakes work across a portfolio of clients. Business development stays with our founder and principal, Michael Margolis.
Narrative Documents That Move Decisions
Almost everything we deliver is a narrative document that has to carry weight with executives, investors, and boards. That includes:
Investor narratives and fundraise materials
Corporate and product strategy narratives
Positioning and messaging systems
Board and executive communications
Go-to-market narratives
Case statements for major donors
You Run the Weekly Cycles
You and Michael co-lead client sessions with CEOs, investors, and executive teams. After each one, our narrative infrastructure, a leading-edge AI stack, turns the transcript, the strategy, and the work plan into drafts. You work those drafts hard, in partnership with our team and the stack, until each document is ready for an executive to act on. You coach the team through it, with feedback that makes the next draft better.
What you’ll own:
The weekly deliverable cycle on every account you lead
The editorial pass on every draft, and the call on what’s client-ready
The client between sessions: expectations, agendas, and follow-up
The work plan and roadmap on each account
Coaching and feedback for a narrative analyst and a program manager
You start on two weekly accounts and add two more by your second month. 60-day investor fundraising sprints run on a similar cycle.
Who This Fits
Director-level comms or above at a growth-stage or public company
Agency VPs who were the structured thinkers on their accounts
A strong writer with a journalist’s or management consultant’s rigor
Marketing or investor relations experience alongside comms
Executive presence with a CEO or an investor
The tempo of hard-charging, complex environments
A principled operator who closes loops in writing
AI-forward: you steer the tools and supply the judgment
Independent now, or building your own practice
The Terms
Remote, 1099 retainer
North American working hours, West Coast preferred
20 hours a week
$6K a month, with room to grow
Managing Director review at six months
Starts November or December
30-day paid trial
No business development requirements
How We Hire
A 20-minute application, a 25-minute conversation with Michael, a paid work sample on a real narrative deliverable, a working session with the team, and two references.
The application takes about 20 minutes, and Michael reads every answer.
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About Storied
Language is the new code. Storied is a narrative infrastructure company. We build the language that complex, technical companies run on. Get the words right and your strategy gets funded, bought, and believed in. Since 2002, we’ve deployed across 350+ organizations. Our Narrative Intelligence method ships as Storied AI.
