Marketing & Creative - Talent Community

Curated Marketing & Creative Teams periodically hire for a variety of different roles. Apply to join our talent community and be considered as relevant positions open up! 

Marketing & Creative Teams at Curated define our product voice 

Our teams craft high-level branding strategies and establish the ways that we engage our audience; from consumers to experts, to brands. 

• Marketing is responsible for driving revenue growth using cutting-edge performance marketing strategies and in-house technology. We are a highly collaborative team managing paid acquisition, CRM, conversion optimization, and content production in partnership with many other functions.
• Brand & Creative focuses on telling the Curated story. We help to distill all of the magic that happens on our platform into a cohesive, clear narrative so that potential users can easily understand "why Curated." 
• Content leads the development of creative assets fueling organic growth, from articles on the Expert Journal to product review videos on Youtube. Much of this work focuses on showcasing expert knowledge and helping people make buying decisions, while enabling experts to build their own personal brands in concert with the overall Curated brand.

Why you'll love working here 

• Inspiring experts. Everything we do is to make our experts successful. When our experts are successful, our customers have an amazing experience and get products they love. Our experts are students, firefighters, teachers, stay-at-home moms, golf pros, authors, retired restaurant managers, and more. 
• The product. When an expert and a customer click, the end result is magical.
• Fantastic team. Led by industry veterans with multiple successful exits under their belts, we’re a small, tightly-knit team of innovators, creators, and builders. 
• High trust culture. We seek to enable team members with minimal red tape. We operate from the assumption that our teammates are well-intentioned and chasing high-impact challenges. 

How we interview

When it comes to interviews, we always commit to transparent and timely communication. We know that interviewing takes time, energy, and commitment, so we do our best to facilitate a fulfilling and high-context experience. 

Marketing & Creative Teams hire across a wide variety of roles – from freelance video editors, producers, and photographers to technical performance marketers – and our interview process likewise varies depending on the role. As a general template, our process looks something like this: 

• Recruiter Screen. An introductory call allows us to learn about your background and interests, while also sharing a bit about Curated and screening for surface-level skills alignment.  
• Hiring Manager Interview. A member of the hiring team conducts a deeper technical dive. You can expect to discuss past projects and often hypothetical problem-solving on these calls. These calls are typically 45 minutes to an hour long.
  • Technical Phone Interview or Test. For some positions, we front-load an additional technical evaluation at this point. These usually focus on tangible work samples; often a portfolio deep-dive or a tightly-scoped take-home assessment. 
• "Face to Face" Interviews. Next, we’ll typically arrange a series of 45-minute round-robin interviews. These technical interviews focus on different aspects of the role and often include relevant stakeholders from adjacent functions. We’ll let you know who you’re meeting in advance, and commonly evaluate the following: 
  • Business acumen
  • Strategy
  • Analytical thinking
  • Execution
  • Passion
  • Communication skills
• Presentation. We often conclude with a case study, in which you’ll respond to an offline prompt with a small, self-contained work sample, and then present your solution to a small panel of team members. 
  • Note: We try to limit offline assessments to one per process. In other words, processes that include an earlier take-home test will usually not include a presentation at the end. 

From there, we typically take a more open approach to ensure that all of your questions have been answered and that our team is likewise comfortable moving forward!

Interview Tips

Here are a few general guidelines that will help you to be successful throughout your interview experience:

• Get to know our space. If you’re not already familiar with e-commerce, gig-economy companies, or marketplaces, spend some time familiarizing yourself with these topics and exploring our platform. Don’t worry about bothering experts for their time; they’re compensated for conversations and will be happy to connect. 
• Past projects can provide a ton of insight into your skills, expertise, and history of delivering impressive products, features, or content. Prepare to go into detail on past projects that demonstrate your range of skills. How might you change your approach if you did the same project today? 
• Think out loud. We’re very interested in understanding your thought process - how you break down problems, set goals, choose success metrics, prioritize features, etc.
• Collaboration is critical at Curated. Be prepared to talk about experiences working directly with stakeholders with different perspectives;  producers, designers, engineers, executives, users, etc. 
• Ask questions. A great way of demonstrating engagement and critical thinking skills is by asking poignant questions.

Skills and Qualifications

Job requirements vary by team and role, but we generally see a few themes among our strongest candidates for Marketing & Creative roles.

• Culture and Values Alignment. Every new hire moves our company culture by one game piece, either reinforcing aspects of our existing culture or moving us in a new direction. 
• Passion. We care a lot about our business, and we are looking for people who are inspired by what we do. Our goals are to eliminate buyer's remorse and to enable passionate experts to monetize their knowledge. We want missionaries, not mercenaries! 
• Problem-Solving Skills. We're a startup, which means we have limited resources and big challenges, some of which are fundamentally unique. We look for people who prioritize high-impact opportunities and identify viable solutions to tricky problems.
• Depth. We look for proven experience and people who have "done it before." 
• We are especially excited about candidates who have role-relevant strategic leadership experience, at scale, in retail, e-commerce, three-sided marketplaces, or media and entertainment companies.
• Analytical Skills. Data informs almost every meaningful decision that we make at Curated. We look for people who are comfortable tying together datasets, building thoughtful models, and cutting through the noise to drive positive impact. 
• Leadership. We have an entrepreneurial culture built on collective trust. Every employee at Curated is an owner and is the subject matter expert for some piece of the bigger picture. We look for people who take pride in their work. 
• Collaboration. Most of our work is cross-functional, and we will only be successful if we continue to work well together. We are a low-ego, low-bureaucracy, flat organization, focused on coming together to solve novel challenges.