Development Producer

Changing Lives Productions LLC • Los Angeles, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Changing Lives Productions is the in-house video production company of Dhar Mann Studios, the #1 creator of scripted positive content online. With over 163 million followers and 45+ billion views across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, our videos receive more than 1 billion views each month. We produce several hours of original content weekly with messages of compassion, kindness, and altruism that resonate with viewers of all ages. Our stories tackle real-life challenges and deliver powerful life lessons that resonate with global audiences. Founded by Dhar Mann, named the “Moral Philosopher of YouTube” by The New York Times, a Time Top 100 Creator, and ranked #2 on Forbes’ 2025 Top Creators list—our founding principle is simple but ambitious: We’re not just telling stories. We’re changing lives.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3+ years working in scripted development within the film and television industry, preferably within a Creative Executive, Lead Writer, or Producer capacity.
• Experience ideating and writing longform scripted series for SVOD, FAST, digital, creator-led, youth, family, or female-skewing audiences. Preference towards candidates with experience overseeing a series’ entire lifecycle. (Portfolio link or samples required with application submission)
• Deep experience adapting ideas to different platforms and audience demos, including grounded expertise and strong instincts for entertainment that can transition between digital and traditional/linear settings.
• Deep fluency in digital platforms (including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, vertical microdrama applications, SVOD/AVOD/FAST, audience retention mechanics, thumbnail/title/hook mentality, and creator-led programming).
• Experience working with small, fast teams and delivering under compressed timelines.
• Comfort wearing multiple hats: writer, creative producer, development partner, story editor.
• Strong organizational follow-through.
• Budget consciousness and practical production judgment.
• Genuine alignment with DMS culture: mission-driven, high-output, collaborative, and audience-focused.

Nice To Haves

• Experience overseeing a series’ entire lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, develop, and produce original scripted concepts and expand existing IP into repeatable series, focusing on those with strong audience hooks, emotional clarity, and repeatable franchise value.
• Compose pitches, loglines, treatments, beat sheets, outlines, pitch decks, and longform scripts against daily and weekly deadlines.
• Translate ideas across formats, including short-form/social, digital episodic, and linear/traditional development.
• Facilitate “writer’s rooms”, manage creatives, and show capability in growing diverse and specialized teams that can work effectively and efficiently.
• Track varied platform trends, audience behavior, viewer feedback, and story formats that are actually working, showing capability in instilling learnings immediately into future greenlighting.
• Deeply analyze and understand the structural retention and packaging requirements of each content platform to ensure our creative is natively built.
• Partner with production to ensure concepts are executable at cost-effective budgets and that IP vision stays consistent from concept through execution.
• Help build a pipeline of commercially viable content without losing brand voice.
• Be highly responsive in an extremely fast-moving development environment where priorities shift quickly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed