Job Description
🍄 Founder Content Creator — Super Mush
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Shadowing Co-Founder & CEO Alli Schaper
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📍 San Diego, CA (Willing to Travel)
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💵 $25–30/hr + travel covered
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🗓 3 days/week · 2-month contract (1099) with potential to extend
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✈️ Domestic travel with Alli required (festivals, retail visits, events)
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About Super Mush
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We're a mental wellness lifestyle brand inspired by the power of functional mushrooms — lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, turkey tail, chaga — and the colorful, community-first culture that surrounds them. Our mouth sprays, gummies, and supplements help people feel focused, calm, and alive.
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In four years, we've grown into a multi-million-dollar brand, hit 1,800 retail doors (including Target and Sprouts), raised $6.5M from 130+ investors (founders of Thrive Market, Hu, Netflix, Zumba), hosted 70+ IRL community events across the U.S., and built a 400k+ following across our social channels. Our wellness podcast sits in the top 5% of global shows.
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NDude is our family investment company and has been proudly working closely with Super Mush as equity partners, supporting any backend necessities across the brand's growth and operations.
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Our amazing co-founder and CEO Alli Schaper is a proud Forbes 30 Under 30, a speaker, podcaster, and one of the most recognizable voices in modern wellness and advocates for functional mushrooms. She's everywhere — Austin City Limits, Summit, founder dinners, retail launches, the podcast studio, the road. We need someone in her shadow making sure none of those moments go uncaptured.
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The role
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You'll be Alli's behind-the-camera best friend. Three days a week you're with her — at podcast tapings, retail visits, festivals, founder dinners, planes, hotel rooms, the in-between. Your job is to shoot the real stuff, ship same-day cuts, and directly relay content needs, footage, notes, and priorities to our team in India so they can help move content approval/assistance forward fast — all while building her founder brand and pulling people deeper into the Super Mush universe.
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This is a vlog-style, doc-style, "in the room where it happens" role. You show up, shoot, cut, and ship.
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What you'll actually do
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- Shadow Alli ~3 days/week across her schedule (podcast, events, travel, retail, daily life)
- Move fluidly between professional camera work (cinematic B-roll, podcast multicam, event coverage) and lo-fi iPhone UGC (selfie-style talking heads, fast-cut trend formats, behind-the-scenes)
- Cut and ship 8–12 short-form pieces/week for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X
- Deliver 1–2 longer doc-style pieces/month (3–8 min) for YouTube and our owned media
- Travel domestically with Alli for festivals (ACL, Summit Series, music + wellness gatherings), retail launches, founder events, NYC/LA trips
- Keep the raw archive organized and handed off cleanly to our broader content team
- Bring ideas. We don't want a button-pusher — we want a creative partner who pitches hooks, formats, and series. Be a team player.
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Required experience
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This is a real production role, not an entry point. To do this job well you need to walk in with:
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- A clear background in filming and content creation — at least 1+ years of paid work as a videographer, content creator, or social producer, with a portfolio that proves it
- Proficiency with a professional camera system — a mirrorless or cinema body (Sony A7 / FX3, Canon R5/R6, Panasonic GH, Blackmagic, etc.), confident with manual exposure, lens choice, lighting, on-camera audio, and a basic gimbal setup
- Strong editing chops in a professional NLE — Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, including color, sound mixing, and clean caption work
- Fluent in mobile UGC production — you know when to drop the cinema rig and shoot a vertical, raw, authentic iPhone piece because that's what the moment calls for, and you can edit it in CapCut on the road
- The judgment to choose the right format on the fly — knowing when to go cinematic, when to go UGC, and when to mix both in the same week
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Preferred applicants
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- Has a Gen Z or younger-millennial sensibility for what performs on TikTok and Reels
- 1–5 years into your career as a videographer, content creator, or social producer
- Based in San Diego with reliable transportation
- A self-starter who manages your own shoots and doesn't need a producer holding your hand
- Comfortable being in a founder's shadow
- Down to travel domestically on short notice
- Aligned with our world: wellness-curious, festival-friendly, community-first
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Bonus points
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- You've shadowed a founder, creator, or artist before
- Your own social presence shows you understand the assignment
- You've built series or recurring formats that performed
- You can shoot a multicam podcast setup solo
- Experience with drone, gimbal stabilization, or basic lighting kits
- You have a personal POV on wellness, mental health, or functional nutrition
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Comp & logistics
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- $25–30/hr (~$3,000/month*) (1099 contract)
- 2 months to start, with strong intent to extend if it's working
- 3 days/week on-shoot — exact days flex with Alli's calendar
- Travel covered — flights, lodging, per diem on the road
- You keep your gear — bring your own pro camera body, lenses, mic, iPhone; we'll cover any specialty add-ons if necessary
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How to apply
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Send us:
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- Your reel or a link to 3 pieces you're most proud of — including one cinematic professional piece and one iPhone UGC piece — with one line on why each worked
- One example of a same-day or next-day turnaround (shot → published in under 24h)
- Your IG/TikTok handle and a list of the gear you currently own
- A few sentences on why this role, and one idea for a Super Mush x Alli series you'd want to make
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📧 Email: Gabriel@ndude.com
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Subject line: Founder Content Creator — [Your Name] — [Location]
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We're moving fast. First calls within a week of receiving strong applications. We would like to do one paid trial shoot day with Alli before we sign.
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🍄 Mush love,
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The Super Mush team