Scriptwriter (Dex)
Position Summary & Responsibilities
🚀 Why Headout?
We’re a rocketship: 9-figure revenue, record growth, and profitable
With $200M+ in revenue, guests in 700+ cities, and 18 months of profitability, Headout is the fastest-growing marketplace in the travel industry, and we’re just getting started. We've raised $60M+ from top-tier investors and are building a durable company for the long term — because that's what our mission needs and deserves. We’re growing, profitable and nowhere near done.
What we do is important
In an increasingly digital world, there is a desperate need to augment our human experience by getting us to interact with the real world around us and the people in it. At Headout, our mission is to be the easiest, fastest, and most delightful way to head out to a real-life experience — from immersive tours to museums to live events and everything in between.
Why now?
The foundation is strong. The opportunity ahead is even bigger. We’ve hit profitability, built momentum, and proven the model — but there’s so much more to build. If you’re looking to join a company where the trajectory is steep and your impact is real, this is the moment.
Our culture
Reinventing the travel industry isn't easy, but that's the fun part.
We care deeply about ownership, craft, and impact, and we’re here to do the best work of our careers. We won’t pretend like it’s for everyone but if you’re a builder who loves solving tough problems, you’ll feel right at home.
The Role
Dex creates cinematic, immersive, narrative-driven audio tours for venues and neighbourhoods worldwide. We're building a pool of freelance scriptwriters to craft tours across our global roster of cities - working within certain established scriptwriting frameworks.The writing of a Dex tour is an evolving craft involving creative distillation of in-depth research, as well as immersive, conversational storytelling for audio-led walking tours. The writing of each tour will be a collaborative process with the tour producer, who will be the creative curator of the tour.
This is a structured creative role, not a blank-page one. You'll take a research brief, with an itinerary, route and detailed research per exhibit, and turn it into a scripted, character-voiced audio experience that survives Dex's editorial bar - across multiple rounds of feedback, on a tour-by-tour e
Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights
Evaluators strictly assess extreme ownership, speed-to-execution, and data-backed hustle within a hyper-growth travel tech environment.
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