Curation Associate
WaitWhat is looking to hire a Curation Associate to work alongside our Head of Curation helping to identify and secure the most vibrant, unexpected voices in our culture to appear as storytellers and guests on our various media platforms.
We’re looking for someone with at least 3 years of related experience assigning stories, booking guests, or pitching talent to media. While our first formats are typically focused on podcasts, we’re open to candidates from a range of media. Candidates must be intellectually curious, creatively courageous, and passionate about sharing big, provocative ideas through the art of longform storytelling.
You must enjoy working collaboratively, be open to a diverse range of viewpoints, and feel energized and inspired by the lives and experiences of others. If you share our passion for exceptional storytelling and ground-breaking media formats, we would love to hear from you!
Please submit a thoughtful cover letter, resume and references.
Responsibilities:
- Identify top tier guests, cultivate relationships and firm book them for our various platforms.
- Prepare in-depth dossiers on each guest to help prepare our hosts and producers for interviews.
- In tandem with our Head of Curation, conduct pre-interviews.
- Draft interview questions that draw out unique stories, and highlight the personality, vulnerability, and wit of our guests, while identifying the universal themes embedded in the storytellers’ experiences.
- Monitor the latest news and scout potential guests via traditional print and broadcast media, as well as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms
Qualifications:
- Familiarity with our podcast catalog, including Masters of Scale, Meditative Story, and Should This Exist?, and a rich understanding of the signature elements of each show’s character and its target audience.
- Strong editorial judgment.
- 3+ years experience in talent acquisition, pitching and/or booking.
- Extensive list of contacts, and a proven ability to find and book high-profile guests.
- Willingness and ability to work under tight deadline pressures while juggling long-term bookings
- Highly organized and able to meet deadlines
- Superior communication skills, both written and verbal
This is a FT position, based in downtown Manhattan. We offer a benefits package that’s very generous and competitive with larger companies (We believe in taking care of our team.). We work long hours, but we also rest. (Our whole company closes for 2 weeks in the summer and the week between Christmas and the New Year, so we can recharge). We’re committed to diversity of all kinds — in our media properties, among our investors and on our team: women, minorities and anyone with an unconventional background are strongly encouraged to apply. And most importantly, we only hire extremely nice people.