Curation Associate

Curation Associate
Wait What, United States

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
Bachelor's Degree
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Mar 16, 2021
Last Date
Apr 16, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

About WaitWhat

WaitWhat is a media invention company, recognized for the highest quality, most genre-defining content today. Founded by June Cohen and Deron Triff the executives who built and led TED’s media organization from its beginnings through its establishment as a global phenomenon WaitWhat is building the most valuable, independent portfolio of premium IP, designed around essential human needs with a contrarian strategy to scale. In everything the company creates, it aims to elicit the contagious emotions of wonder, curiosity, and mastery infusing our content with Wait, what? moments that spark curiosity and change our understanding of the world.

Our properties each one profitable, each earning Webby Award honors and together downloaded more than 60 million times include the now-iconic Masters of Scale (hosted by LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman), the genre-defining hit Meditative Story (in partnership with Arianna Huffington’s Thrive), and the provocative and timely Should This Exist? (hosted by Silicon Valley pioneer Caterina Fake). In January, we introduce Spark amp; Fire, a completely original series that takes audiences into the minds of famous creators who describe in an exquisitely crafted first-person story set to music the journey to bring their iconic works to life. WaitWhat’s unmatched guest list of iconic thinkers and doers range from Sir Richard Branson to novelist Isabel Allende; Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban to Trinity Church’s Pastor Otis Moss; Cellist Yo-Yo Ma to Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman to baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.

WaitWhat closed its Series A in April 2019, with a remarkable, gender-balanced group of investors led by Cue Ball Capital and Burda Principal Investments. The company has forged successful collaborations with Harvard Business School, Thrive Global, Omidyar Network, the Summit Series, Entrepreneur Magazine, among others, who are working alongside WaitWhat to scale its properties into apps, courses, live events, books, and video. WaitWhat’s sponsors include blue-chip clients like ATamp;T, AWS, Accenture, Capital One, Deloitte and Mastercard and digital powerhouses like HubSpot, Skillshare, Zoom, and others who turn to WaitWhat for unmatched storytelling and exceptional results.

Based in New York City, with a number of remote contributors, WaitWhat has built an exceptionally talented team of media inventors who are committed to the founders’ vision for first-of-their-kind media platforms that endure and scale. The company’s vibrant culture is rooted in optimism, possibility thinking, and an uncommon willingness to embrace risk with intention to push the outer bounds of creativity and experimentation. The team purposefully rich in diversity treats each other with kindness and respect, tolerant of differences and always supporting yes, and-style conversations (consistent with best practices of design thinking and improv).

Requirements

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

Job Specification

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