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I pick the stories, edit every draft, and help sell them.

Content manager for CandyJar at Inkitt, running the show slate for vertical romance dramas. Based in San Francisco.

Still from the His Nerd trailer — **His Nerd**63 eps

Still from the Loving My Brother's Best Friend trailer — **Loving My Brother's Best Friend**44 eps

Still from the Off Limits & All Mine trailer — **Off Limits & All Mine**41 eps

Still from the Fight Dirty trailer — **Fight Dirty**39 eps

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CandyJar originals

On every show here I sat in the pitch room, chose the source story for adaptation, edited every version of the story and script, helped with casting, and worked with marketing on the launch.

Story selectionPitch meetingsScript editingRewritesCastingLaunch marketing

His Nerd

63 episodes

A cruel prank kiss turns robotics prodigy Ava Darling into the school's latest viral joke. The only one who steps in is Hunter Black, the soccer bad boy who's failing English.

Read the opening

HIS NERD

INT. HIGH SCHOOL - GIRLS BATHROOM - STALL - DAY

Ava cries alone, curled up into herself. Outside her stall, the bathroom DOOR OPENS and someone comes inside.

A BOY'S SHOES stop outside Ava's stall. She freezes.

HUNTER (O.S.)

Hey. I want to talk to you.

EPISODE 4:

Ava stays curled up on the toilet. The boy sticks a packet of TISSUES beneath the door.

HUNTER (O.S.) (cont'd)

It's Hunter, okay? Come on out. You're safe with me.

INT. HIGH SCHOOL - GIRLS BATHROOM - DAY

Ava comes out of her stall. Hunter leans against the far wall. Ava posts up on the opposite wall, near the door.

AVA

Why do you carry around travel-sized packets of lotion-infused tissues?

HUNTER

So I can offer them to damsels in distress.

Loving My Brother's Best Friend

44 episodes

Henley comes home from a summer in Italy, and her brother's best friend can't stop looking at her. Her brother can never find out.

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LOVING MY BROTHER'S BEST FRIEND

EPISODE 2:

Luca quickly draws back his hand. Henley, nervous, opens her mouth to cover, but before she does, Will's frown morphs into a grin as he pulls Henley into a bear hug.

WILL (CONT'D)

You're home already? I thought you got back tomorrow!

HENLEY

(laughing)

Tomorrow's the first day of school, idiot.

He sets her down again.

WILL

Look, we gotta split for practice, but catch up with you later, yeah? Mom's on a business trip, surprise surprise, so...

HENLEY / WILL

Chinese for dinner?

They grin at each other before Will starts off down the hall, Luca in tow. Luca turns back to look at Henley. His gaze is soft... and full of longing.

Henley turns just in time to see it. Luca quickly looks away.

Off Limits & All Mine

41 episodes

Reese has wanted her dad's best friend, music icon Malcolm Royce, for as long as she can remember. Now she's grown up, and she's done hiding it.

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OFF LIMITS & ALL MINE

EXT. MALCOLM'S MANSION - DAY

REESE (20s, Black, bold, trouble on purpose) grins mischievously at the video clip on her phone, earbuds in, excitement buzzing.

REESE

Yeah. That's my dad's best friend. Wish me luck.

She hangs up. Fluffs her hair and adjusts her top. Then she strides to the front door and rings the DOORBELL.

The door opens and Malcolm stands in the entryway, shirtless. Body slick with sweat from a workout.

REESE (CONT'D)

Hey, Mr. Royce. Miss me?

In disbelief, Malcolm stares her up and down.

MALCOLM

Firefly?

Reese wraps her arms around him. Malcolm pulls her back but doesn't immediately drop his hands from her waist. He swallows.

MALCOLM (CONT'D)

Damn, you, uh... grew up on me.

REESE

Good. You noticed.

Fight Dirty

39 episodes

Queen bee Kenzie Goodman needs someone to scare off her ex, so she recruits Clay Barton, the school's grungiest loner. She doesn't know he's fighting in underground rings to keep a roof over his head.

Read the opening

FIGHT DIRTY

KENZIE

Tristan's been bugging me for months. Following me around at school. Showing up at my house in the middle of the night-

CLAY

I got nothing to do with that guy.

KENZIE

I know. And I want to change that. You can make him leave me alone.

CLAY

How am I supposed to help you with a guy I don't talk to?

KENZIE

(like it's a gift to him)

You talk to me. Walk with me between classes. Sit with me at lunch. Be with me all day.

CLAY

You want me to be your fake boyfriend?

Kenzie's eyes rove up and down Clay's body, appraising his scuffed shoes, torn jeans, strong torso. She huffs out a dismissive laugh.

KENZIE

God, as if. No one would ever believe we're together. No, less boyfriend, more guard dog.

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Behind the slate

The systems, tests and rebrands that decided which stories got made and how they found their audience. Each one is told like a short episode: the hook, the move, the payoff.

CandyJar · Show selection

Hook: The app already knew which stories readers couldn't put down. Picking what to adapt was still mostly a gut call.
Move: Built a data-driven content selection system that ranks stories for adaptation using market analysis and reader behavior, then shaped each script for vertical.
Payoff: Production efficiency up 60%, with monthly output growing from 3 to 5 shows. CandyJar projects averaged $700K in first-month revenue on ~$200K budgets, and the slate has contributed to $16M+ in revenue.

CandyJar · Building the team

Hook: A show slate can only grow as fast as the people editing it.
Move: Built the AI show team from the ground up (three writers and a video producer) to run a 12-show backlog with four new kickoffs a month.
Payoff: 10+ scripts edited every month, live-action included, and a contribution to a 2x+ increase in median first-three-month revenue per original show, 2026 vs. 2025.

Galatea · A/B testing

Hook: On a pay-per-chapter app, every line is a reason to keep reading or a reason to leave.
Move: Treated the writing itself as the experiment: A/B tested openings, cliffhangers and edits on Galatea stories, and kept what readers paid for.
Payoff: A 25% average increase in paid actions and CLTV across tested stories.

Fairy Godmother Inc. · Rebrand

Hook: An 8-book series can have great stories and still lose readers at the cover.
Move: Led a cross-functional rebrand of the whole catalog: editorial strategy, title optimization and a full cover redesign.
Payoff: A 20% CLTV increase across the series.

+32%Push notification CTR from CRM copy across email, push and social

45M+Views on a CrunchLabs video I coordinated production for, covered by ABC7 and SFGATE

82→98%Graduation rate while I taught English in South Korea

Dissolve to:

About

The short version, in the format I read all day.

JAMIE ALLENDORF

INT. CANDYJAR WRITERS' ROOM - SAN FRANCISCO - DAY

A desk buried in scripts, every revision color in the rainbow. JAMIE ALLENDORF (journalism grad, ex-English teacher, current story addict) flips to the last page of a draft.

WRITER

So? Does it work?

JAMIE

(circling a line in red)

It will. Move this to the first ten seconds.

The writer looks. Nods slowly. Jamie's already reaching for the next script.

I'm Jamie, a content manager and script editor who decides which stories become shows, then makes sure they hook people from the first scene.

I studied journalism at Boston University, spent two years teaching English in South Korea, and landed at Inkitt in 2024. Since then I've moved from writing and A/B testing stories on Galatea to running the CandyJar show slate and the team that builds it.

I like work where the creative call and the numbers have to agree.

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Résumé

Full résumé available on request.

09/2026 – now

Content Manager, CandyJar · Inkitt, San Francisco

Lead the AI show slate team: 3 writers and a video producer, structured from the ground up.
Manage a 12-show backlog and 4 new show kickoffs per month; edit 10+ outlines and scripts monthly.
Contributed to a 2x+ increase in median first-three-month revenue per original show, 2026 vs. 2025.

02/2024 – 08/2026

Creative Writer & Content Strategist · Inkitt

Script editor and content strategist for CandyJar, contributing to $16M+ in revenue.
Built a content selection system that raised production efficiency 60% (3 → 5 shows a month).
+25% paid actions and CLTV via A/B testing on Galatea; +32% push CTR from CRM copy.

11/2023 – 12/2023

Production Operations Coordinator · CrunchLabs

Coordinated a multi-week shoot for a 50M+ subscriber audience; the video earned 45M+ views.

11/2023 – 01/2024

Sales Operations, Contract · Verkada

Resolved cross-team sales attribution disputes across all regions.

03/2021 – 03/2023

English Language Teacher · J Lee Preparatory Academy, South Korea

Graduation rate rose from 82% to 98%.

Education

B.S. Journalism · Boston University

AI workflows & prompt engineering · Data-driven writing and A/B testing · Content operations · Script editing · Team leadership · Notion, Rill, Redash, Zendesk

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Let's make something people can't stop watching.

jamie.allendorf@gmail.com