Patrick Putzker

I'm a German creative director and content operator based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with 8+ years in content. I work remotely as a contractor through my US LLC.

For nearly four years I led video and content for Niklas Christl's YouTube channel and his education brand Story Hero Academy. I built the editing team and the whole system behind it from scratch: hiring editors and animators through paid test edits, writing every SOP and style guide, giving feedback on every cut in Frame.io, and running the pipeline from script to publish.

On the YouTube side I worked on ideation, strategy, packaging and editing while the channel grew from 300K to 990K subscribers. I ran Test & Compare on every video, held regular analytics reviews, and helped shift the channel toward self-growth and experiment videos, which produced three of its ten most-viewed videos (2.1M, 1.9M and 901K views).

For Story Hero Academy I built the brand and led the course launch: the lessons, the team, and every launch asset from the trailer to the email sequence and social funnel. The launch brought in $400K from 200+ students, most of them from YouTube. I also ran the brand partnerships with Motion Array, Artlist, GoPro and others.

Since then I've grown my own Instagram from 0 to 14K followers with multiple million views, and I run SoulFrame, my studio for filmmaking, editing and creative direction.

I'm looking for one long-term lead role: creative director, head of video or YouTube, or leading an editing team.

Tools: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Frame.io, Notion, Slack, ElevenLabs and AI-assisted workflows.