Want to Work With MrBeast? No Resume Required, But There's a Catch
MrBeast's Beast Industries is hiring a YouTube Creative Strategist with an application that skips the resume and cover letter entirely — in favor of a video.
MrBeast is hiring, and the application process skips the two things every job seeker dreads most: the resume and the cover letter.
Beast Industries, the media company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, posted an opening for a YouTube Creative Strategist with an application process built entirely around one thing — a video.
What the Application Actually Asks For
There's no resume field to sweat over, no cover letter to draft. Instead, applicants answer three questions on camera, walking through their actual thought process rather than reading from a script.
The posting is explicit about what it's not looking for: production value doesn't matter. A phone recording works exactly as well as a professional setup. What the team wants to see is how a candidate thinks, including any notes or planning docs used to work through the answers.
Submissions go in as an unlisted YouTube link or a Loom video, and Beast Industries says every single one gets watched. Basic applicant info — name, email, location, and an optional portfolio or reel link — rounds out the rest of the form.
The Role Itself
The YouTube Creative Strategist position is fully remote, with benefits that include Blue Cross Blue Shield medical coverage, HSA contributions, a 401k with company matching, flexible vacation, and relocation assistance with company-provided housing for the first 90 days.
Beast Industries frames the role as helping shape content that reaches millions of viewers per upload, positioning it as creative leadership rather than a support function.
Competitive Context
Video-based, resume-optional hiring isn't unheard of in creative industries, but it's still rare for a company operating at Beast Industries' scale. Most large media companies and studios still route creative hires through traditional resume and portfolio review, even for roles built entirely around content instinct.
The Signal in the Noise
The format is a reasonable fit for what the role actually requires. A YouTube Creative Strategist's job is judgment and instinct about what makes content work, and a resume is a poor proxy for that. Watching someone reason through a problem on camera is arguably a better test than a polished cover letter would be.
The tradeoff is volume. A no-resume, video-required process is going to draw a flood of applicants given MrBeast's reach, and "we're reviewing every application" is a significant claim to back up at scale. Worth watching whether that promise holds as the role's post spreads.
