OpenTrade Creator Program
As part of this marketing internship you will post about OpenTrade on a new TikTok and Instagram account. You will earn $40 to $2,850 a video and work directly with the founders, who teach you what actually goes viral.
No following and no experience needed. We get back to everyone within 5 days, by text or email.
About us
Stock market games you play with your friends against the AI. You make real calls on real companies, find out instantly if your read was good, and feel yourself getting sharper. You get sharper by playing socially competitive minigames, live today: News, Higher/Lower, Runway, Tickerdle and Arena. It is a game, not a brokerage or an advisory service.
We are a Y Combinator company, Summer 2026, and we have raised $500K.
What you'll be doing
- Post at least 6 videos a week about OpenTrade, no maximum, on a new TikTok and Instagram account you make for this and keep.
- Every video is reviewed before it goes up. A decline comes with the reason in your dashboard, so plan for a review cycle instead of filming and posting the same day.
- Work from the playbook: proven formats, how to port a hook off a video that went viral, account setup and warm-up.
- Warm the account up first, roughly two days of genuine scrolling at 20 to 30 minutes a day, before your first post.
- Feedback on your first videos from the founding team, plus a 30 minute team sync on Saturdays at 2pm Eastern.
What it pays
Every video pays on how it performs, set by its best view count across TikTok and Instagram. Paid every week: your week closes Sunday, the payment form is due Monday, and payment lands Wednesday. No cap on the month.
Per approved video
$40to$2,850
The band a video lands in is the whole payout for it. Bands do not stack and nothing is added on top. If a video later climbs into a higher band we pay the difference, for up to two pay periods after. Warm-up videos are a flat $10 each on your first payout. Your exact rate is set in the agreement you sign.
Who we're looking for
OpenTrade is built for socially-competitive college beginners, 18 to 24, who bring their friends. The creators who do best here look like the people they are talking to: already posting, already opinionated about money.
- You can talk to a camera without sounding like an ad read.
- You can keep up 6 posts a week for at least a month.
- You are 16 or older.
- You do not currently work for a competing trading or investing app, or you are willing to stop. Past work for one is fine.
Why OpenTrade
Real startup experience
You work directly with the founders, not three layers away from them.
You learn what actually works
We test formats across every creator at once, so you get the winning script the same week it lands rather than guessing alone.
You always know where you stand
Briefs, submissions and pay in one dashboard, so you never chase anyone to find out what you are owed.
There is a way up
Creators who are strong at this move into campaign and growth roles, and we refer people into other YC startups.
The rules
OpenTrade is a financial product, so what you can say is constrained. This is the whole list, and we give you caption templates that satisfy it.
- Disclose that it is paid on every post. Use the platform's paid-partnership toggle or an #ad tag in the first line of the caption, not buried in a hashtag block.
- Never recommend a specific stock, ticker or security. Show the game, play it, talk about the experience.
- Never promise or imply returns. No 'I made X', no gambling or day-trading framing.
- Never invent a number, a view count, or a URL.
You'll need a short video of you talking to camera. An old TikTok or reel is fine, as long as it is you, speaking, facing the camera.
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Refer a creator
$25plus 5% of their first month
Know someone who should be doing this? Send them your own link from the link builder so their application comes in tagged as yours. You get $25 once their first video is approved, then 5% of everything they earn in their first 30 days. No limit on how many, and you do not need to be a creator here to collect it. It pays on the work they actually do, so a creator who gets going is worth more to you than one who signs and stops.