Job description
Lumina Media Labs is seeking a detail-oriented Curation Specialist to join our growing editorial and product teams. You will oversee content discovery experiences, optimize metadata, and ensure alignment with editorial standards and user needs. This role blends content strategy, data quality, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality, discoverable content across platforms.
We value curiosity, data-driven decision making, and a passion for building delightful user experiences around curated content.
Responsibility
- Lead the end-to-end curation process for platform content, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
- Design and implement taxonomy and metadata schemas to improve search and discovery.
- Collaborate with editorial, product, and engineering teams to define curation workflows and content guidelines.
- Audit and improve content quality through sampling, reviews, and data-driven dashboards.
- Source and evaluate new content partners and data sources to expand curated offerings.
- Develop and enforce editorial standards and best practices for consistent user experience.
- Monitor performance metrics and iterate on curation strategies to maximize engagement.
- Train and mentor junior team members on curation techniques and tools.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in information science, library science, journalism, or related field.
- 2+ years of experience in content curation, data curation, or information architecture.
- Strong understanding of taxonomy, metadata, tagging, and linked data concepts.
- Proficiency with content management systems and data quality tools.
- Excellent editorial judgment, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (editorial, product, engineering).
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate business needs into actionable curation tasks.
- Familiarity with analytics and A/B testing to measure impact of curation decisions.