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Oldis Media — Open Positions

Creative
Director

Full-Time · Hyde Park, Austin TX · $180K–$200K

— What Oldis Media Is

Oldis Media is an internal media company built on one belief: attention is the most valuable resource in the world, and most brands have no idea how to earn it.

We exist to understand how to get attention, create desire, and inspire someone to take action — then apply that system across a portfolio of companies. We are not a marketing department. We are not an agency. We are a media company that happens to serve brands we own.

Three brands. One person to build the creative system that runs all of it.

Oldis Road

DTC leather goods. The proving ground.

Oldis Foundry

Leatherwork supply. Hardware. The maker’s maker.

Jonathan Jamieson

Founder’s personal brand. The connective tissue across everything.

Oldis Media sits alongside the Head of Ecom at Oldis Road — not above, not below. A client-agency relationship. They bring the brief and the budget. You bring the creative system that makes their spend work harder.

250KFollowers today
5MWhere you take it
18–50MOrganic views / month
6Person team ready to be led

— The Problem You’re Solving

The team is talented. Production is consistent. What’s missing is someone upstream of all of it asking harder questions.

What formats haven’t we tried? What’s working in a completely different category that applies here? What does the comment section tell us about what people actually felt? Where is attention moving that we haven’t gone yet?

We’re executing well. We’re not discovering. This role fixes that.

— How We Think About Content

Content is not about aesthetics. It’s not about production value. It’s not about looking like a brand.

It’s about human behavior. Why does someone stop scrolling? What makes them watch to the end? What triggers them to share? What’s happening in the three seconds before they decide to keep watching or keep scrolling?

Organic is not a separate strategy from paid. It’s a testing ground. What earns attention organically gets scaled on paid. The Creative Director understands this loop intimately — and uses it to make every dollar of ad spend work harder.

The person we’re looking for runs this loop constantly: observe, theorize, test. Every piece of content they consume is data. They’re not watching — they’re studying.

— What You Own

The creative vision across all three brands — you set the direction for everything the team makes. You know what we’re trying to say, who we’re saying it to, and what format gives it the best chance of landing.
The follower growth strategy — 250K to 5M. You own the roadmap, the platform mix, the content pillars, and the cadence that gets us there.
The organic-to-paid pipeline — what wins organically goes to paid. You understand this relationship and design the creative system around it.
The quality bar — every piece of content that goes out should move us closer to our goals. You decide if it’s good enough to earn that.
The attention hunt — you’re studying human behavior across every platform, every category, every format. Platform loyalty is for people who aren’t paying attention. You go where the signal is.
Creative briefing — you translate direction into execution with the team. You know what you want, communicate it clearly, and know immediately when something isn’t right.
The brand goal — within 12 months, Oldis Road is recognized as the top wallet brand in the US. Not just known. Respected. The name people say when someone asks what wallet to buy.

— Who You Are

You are a student of attention. You watch content the way a scientist watches an experiment — pulling out the variables, forming hypotheses, testing them. You understand that a comment section is a focus group. That watch time is a truth serum. That shares are the highest signal of all.

You don’t care which platform attention lives on. You care about what’s driving it and how to earn it. You’re not chasing trends — you’re studying the psychology underneath them.

You have strong creative instincts and you know when to trust data over taste — and when to trust taste over data. You’ll make something you personally find ugly if the signal says it converts. You’ll also push back on something that tests well but feels wrong for the brand. That tension is where you live.

You’ve spent time in agency world. You’re good at your job. But you’re tired of selling things you don’t believe in — churning through briefs for products with no story, no soul, no history. You want both performance and meaning.

— What It’s Like Here

Six people on the team. Talented, skilled, ready to be pushed. You’re their creative north star — not their project manager. You set the direction and the standard.

The founder has a strong point of view and clear instincts. He’s close to the brand. Once there’s trust, you own it.

We’re building a portfolio of brands that all need great creative leadership. The system you build here gets replicated across everything that comes next. The person who builds it grows with that vision.

How to Apply

Three things. That’s all we need.

  1. Show us something that got attention. A piece of content — yours or something you studied — that performed. Tell us why you think it worked. Not the surface answer. The real one.
  2. Tell us how you’d grow Oldis Road from 250K to 5M followers. Not a framework — a direction. What’s the angle, what’s the first move, what are you testing in month one.
  3. Tell us why this makes sense for you right now. Why Oldis Media, why this role, why now.
Apply via Email
Or email us directly at hiring@oldisroad.com
Our goal is simple. Become America’s best told brand that actually makes things.

Head of
Story

Editor in Chief · Full-Time · Hyde Park, Austin TX

— What Oldis Media Is

Oldis Media is an internal media company with one mission: understand how to get attention, create desire, and inspire someone to take action — then apply that system across a portfolio of brands we own and build.

We are not a marketing department. We are not an agency. We are a media company that serves brands with real history, real products, and real people behind them. The stories are already here. This role is the person who finds them, frames them, and makes sure the world hears them.

Oldis Road

DTC leather goods. 14 years. The proving ground.

Oldis Foundry

Leatherwork supply. Hardware. The maker’s maker.

Jonathan Jamieson

Founder’s personal brand. The connective tissue across everything.

14Years in business
70K+Wallets sold
<30Warranty claims filed in 14 years
8+Person team across US and Ecuador, growing

— The Material

A workshop you can walk into tomorrow. Artisans who have spent years perfecting a craft. A product that gets better every single year someone carries it — not worse. 70,000 sold and fewer than 30 warranty claims filed in 14 years.

A lifetime warranty that almost nobody uses — because nobody wants to trade in a wallet that has become uniquely theirs. A bootstrapped company that built its own manufacturing, its own supply chain, and its own fulfillment from the ground up without a dollar of outside capital.

A Reddit thread asking “is this just IG hype?” is the evidence that the world doesn’t yet know what this brand actually is. That’s the gap this role closes.

This is not a brand without a story. This is a brand whose story hasn’t been told yet. That changes with this hire.

— The Problem You’re Solving

The product is real. The history is real. The workshop, the craft, the numbers — all real. What’s missing is the person whose entire job is to see the story in all of it and make sure it gets told to the right people in the right way.

Stories are happening every single day — in a workshop in Ecuador, in a Maine fulfillment center, in the hands of someone who has carried the same wallet for eleven years. Almost none of it is being captured with editorial intention. This role changes that.

We have everything a serious journalist dreams of finding. We need the person who knows what to do with it.

— What You Own

The brand story bible — extract fourteen years of product history, company history, and craft heritage. Frame it. Package it. Make it the foundation everything else is built on.
Editorial direction — you brief the production team on what to shoot and why. You know what story you’re telling before anyone rolls camera.
The narrative across all three brands — Oldis Road, Oldis Foundry, Jonathan Jamieson. Each has its own story. You find the thread that connects them and makes each one stronger.
Press and media strategy — you know what story GQ runs, what the Wall Street Journal covers, what gets Oldis Road on a serious podcast. You pitch from editorial understanding not a press release.
Long form storytelling — the origin pieces, the documentary treatments, the profiles of the people and the process. You write some yourself. You direct the rest.
The story culture — you build the instinct across the entire Oldis Media team that there is a story in everything we do. Your job is to make sure none of them go untold.
The goal — within 12 months Oldis Road is America’s best told brand that actually makes things. Not just known. Respected. Referenced.

— Who You Are

You came out of serious editorial. A magazine, a publication, a long form journalism background where you learned what makes a story worth telling — and what makes an editor say yes before they finish reading the pitch.

You see stories everywhere. You walk into a room and you already know which moment matters. You watch a craftsman work and you see six different angles before they finish the first stitch. You read a set of numbers and you find the human truth inside them.

You know the difference between content that gets attention and a story that changes how someone thinks about a brand. You’ve been frustrated your whole career that most brands with real stories never figure out how to tell them. You want to fix that for a brand that actually deserves it.

You’re tired of working on things with no soul. No history. Nothing real behind them. You’ve been waiting for material worthy of your best work. This is that material.

— What It’s Like Here

You are coming in to build this. There is no playbook to follow, no existing structure to manage. You are the editorial brain that has been missing — and you will have the autonomy and the resources to build it the way it should be built.

Oldis Media has a growing team across the US and Ecuador. A production crew is already embedded full time in the workshop — rolling camera every day in one of the most visually compelling craft environments in the world. The infrastructure is there. The footage is there. The access is there. What’s been missing is the person deciding what it all means and where it goes.

Ecuador is available to you as often as you need it. The stories that will define this brand live in that workshop. Go find them.

We are building a portfolio of brands that all need their stories told. The system you build here gets applied to everything that comes next. The person who builds it becomes the institutional storyteller of a company built to last.

How to Apply

Three things. Make them count.

  1. Tell the Oldis Road story in 200 words the way you’d pitch it to a magazine editor. Not a press release. The real story. The one that makes an editor stop and say — I need to run this.
  2. Show us a piece of long form storytelling you’re proud of. Tell us why it worked — not the metrics. The reason the story landed.
  3. You land in Ecuador for the first time. A production team is rolling camera in the workshop. What are you looking for and what story do you come out with?
Apply via Email
Or email us directly at hiring@oldisroad.com

Head of
Brand

Full-Time · Hyde Park, Austin TX · Compensation TBD

— What Oldis Road Is

Oldis Road is a manufacturing-first leather goods brand.

We are not a dropshipper. We are not a marketing company with a product attached. We design and make the thing we sell.

The Oldis One has been around for more than a decade. Over 70,000 wallets have been sold. Fewer than 30 warranty claims have been filed in 14 years. The product works. The customers love it. The story is real.

Now the brand needs to be built around that truth with the same level of intention. That is the opportunity.

14Years in business
70K+Wallets sold
<30Warranty claims filed in 14 years
8+Person team, growing

— The Problem You’re Solving

Oldis Road has what most brands pretend to have: real product, real craft, real history, real customers, and real proof.

What we need now is someone to turn that into a clear brand system. A customer should understand why the Oldis One is not just another leather wallet. They should understand what makes it different, why it matters, and why it is worth owning for years.

That does not happen from one ad, one landing page, or one good story. It happens when every part of the customer journey reinforces the same belief: the ad, the PDP, the packaging, the unboxing, the warranty, the email, the founder story, support, product presentation, and the way we explain what makes Oldis different.

This is not a brand without a story. This is a brand whose story has not been told clearly enough yet. That changes with this hire.

— What You Own

Brand positioning — define what Oldis Road means, what category it owns, and why the Oldis One is not interchangeable with cheaper lookalikes or generic leather goods. Not vague “premium leather” language. Clear, ownable positioning that guides decisions.
Customer psychology — understand why people buy, what they are really buying, what they need to believe before purchase, and what makes them choose Oldis. You know the difference between a feature, a benefit, and a belief.
Messaging hierarchy — build the messaging system for the brand: what we lead with, which proof points matter most, what belongs on the PDP, in ads, in email, and in packaging, and what should never be said.
Brand codes — define the visual, verbal, and product-presentation rules that make Oldis recognizable: the words we use, the words we avoid, and the way we explain durability and craft without sounding soft, precious, or generic.
Customer journey — make ad → site → PDP → checkout → packaging → unboxing → post-purchase → support → warranty → repeat purchase → referral feel like one connected brand experience.
Business-wide brand alignment — Oldis Media owns the media engine. The Head of Story owns the raw narrative material. The Creative Director owns the creative expression. You make sure all of it adds up to one clear brand in the customer’s mind.

— Who You Are

You are a brand strategist with operator instincts.

You have worked close to a physical product before. You understand that brand is not just voice and visuals. It is how the product is presented, how the customer is educated, how the package feels, how support responds, and what the customer tells himself after he buys.

You are not interested in abstract brand decks that sit in a folder. You build systems people actually use.

You can look at a PDP and know the hierarchy is wrong. You can read an email and know it sounds generic. You can look at packaging and know it is not carrying enough weight. You can read customer reviews and pull out the language the brand should have been using all along.

You understand performance marketing, but you are not ruled by it. You know when data should change the message and when short-term performance is teaching the brand a bad habit.

You can work with a founder who has strong instincts. You do not need to replace those instincts. You need to organize them, sharpen them, and turn them into a system the company can scale.

— What It’s Like Here

Oldis Road is a real business with real customers and real product-market fit. We are not trying to invent a brand out of nothing. We are trying to uncover what is already true and make it impossible to miss.

The founder is close to the brand. The product has history. The workshop is real. The customers already say things most brands would pay to hear.

Your job is to take those raw materials and build the brand system around them. You will sit close to the business: media, story, creative, support, manufacturing, product, and ecommerce.

The goal is not to make Oldis louder. The goal is to make Oldis clearer, stronger, and harder to confuse with anyone else.

— What Success Looks Like

Within 90 Days

Oldis Road has a clear positioning system, a usable messaging hierarchy, organized proof points, and a shared brand standard for PDP, ads, email, packaging, media, and support.

Within 6 Months

Customers understand why the Oldis One is the original worth owning. The brand feels more distinct at every touchpoint. The customer journey reinforces trust before and after purchase.

Across the Team

The whole team has shared language, codes, and proof. The brand becomes part of the product’s value, not decoration around it.

How to Apply

Three things. That’s all we need.

  1. Tell us what Oldis Road is really selling. Not “wallets.” Not “premium leather goods.” Tell us what you think the customer is actually buying when he buys the Oldis One.
  2. Show us a brand system you built or improved. It can be a product brand, ecommerce brand, founder-led brand, or physical goods company. Tell us what was unclear before, what you changed, and how the work showed up across the customer journey.
  3. Tell us what you would clarify first. If you joined Oldis Road, what part of the brand would you want to understand, sharpen, or fix first? Why?
Apply via Email
Or email us directly at hiring@oldisroad.com