Job description
CurateLab Media is seeking a Curation Specialist who loves turning raw content into meaningful collections. As part of our Editorial & Content Strategy team, you will identify, evaluate, and assemble high-quality assets that align with audience interests and business goals.
In this role, you will partner with product, editorial, and data teams to establish standards for metadata, tagging, and taxonomy, ensuring scalable discovery and exceptional user experience.
What you will do: curate and maintain category-specific collections; audit content for quality and relevance; build cross-functional briefs; monitor performance metrics; establish QA processes; collaborate with vendors and partners; contribute to audience insights and strategy.
Responsibility
- Own the end-to-end curation process for assigned topics, from sourcing to taxonomy.
- Evaluate and select assets based on quality, originality, and relevance to audience.
- Collaborate with Editorial, Product, and Data teams to align collections with strategy.
- Develop tagging, metadata, and taxonomy guidelines to improve search and discovery.
- Monitor performance metrics and iterate on collections to maximize engagement.
- Establish and enforce QA processes to maintain consistency and standards.
- Manage relationships with external partners and content vendors.
- Provide mentorship and best-practice guidance to junior curators.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Library Science, Information Science, Journalism, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years in content curation, editorial, or information architecture roles.
- Strong research skills and ability to evaluate diverse content sources.
- Experience with CMS and metadata tagging; familiarity with taxonomy design.
- Analytical mindset with comfort using data to inform decisions and measure impact.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple topics.
- Portfolio of curated collections or editorial projects is a plus.