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- United States
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- Contract
- Posted
- 10 November 2026
- Apply by
- 9 January 2027
As a Market Curation Editor for Culture, you'll support the Product Data Operations team supporting a new social-predictions app moving through a beta launch. This role calls for deep, current fluency in the U.S. entertainment and cultural landscape: its shows, its stars, its fandoms, and what people are actually talking about this week.
About the role
An automated pipeline drafts candidate prediction markets every night; you are the human judgment layer on top of it — deciding which go live, sharpening the ones that are nearly right, and catching the markets the pipeline missed entirely.
This beta is likely to extend into a planned Phase 2 regional expansion, alongside surge periods around awards season and major season finales. ** Will be removed prior to posting
Responsibilities
- Review a daily queue of system-generated culture markets against a fixed completion deadline.
- Assess each candidate for factual accuracy, clarity, and whether the resolution criteria can actually be adjudicated — often the hardest part in culture, since release dates move, awards categories change, and charts revise their methodology.
- Verify that open and close timing matches the real event: an announcement, a broadcast, a release, a ceremony.
- Make the relevance call — decide whether a market is genuinely live right now, or technically correct but culturally dead. This judgment is the core of the role.
- Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines. Culture sits closest to the line on markets about real people — escalate anything touching private life, health, minors, grief, or unverified allegations rather than making an unsupported call.
- Approve, edit, or reject each candidate, recording a structured reason every time — this record is a product deliverable, not admin.
- Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision and for how fans actually talk, including fandom vocabulary a generic writer would get wrong.
- Author timestamped clarifications when ambiguity emerges in a live market, and handle settlement on markets with no authoritative feed.
- Run proactive gap scans across social platforms, fan communities, and entertainment press for culturally live moments the pipeline missed.
- Participate in weekly calibration reviews to stay consistent with published guidelines and fellow curators.
Requirements
- 3+ years in entertainment journalism, editorial, social or community management, or a comparable role requiring current subject-matter expertise.
- Demonstrable current fluency in U.S. entertainment culture — television, film, music, celebrity, and fandom landscape — following it now, not historically.
- Working knowledge of the U.S. media landscape: which outlets break news, which are reliable, and which announcements are real versus speculative.
- Sound judgment on ambiguity: rumor versus confirmation, shifting release dates, contested awards outcomes, revised chart methodology.
- Ability to interpret sources quickly and reach a defensible determination.
- Exceptional written precision under deadline — able to write unambiguous rules that hold up after the outcome is known.
- Strong instinct for where a market about a real person crosses from public interest into private life, and the discipline to escalate rather than guess.
- Availability for evening, overnight, and weekend work around live events.
Nice to have
- Current or former entertainment journalist (outlets in the vein of Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, People, BuzzFeed News, or a relevant Substack).
- Experience trading on, participating in, or otherwise familiar with the workings of prediction markets.
- Prior work in a newsroom, or managing large social platforms for a news or entertainment brand with a hard daily deadline.
- Familiarity with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards — especially around coverage of private individuals.
- A track record of spotting trends and big moments forming in real time.
- Experience contributing to guidelines, style guides, or annotation standards.
- Genuine, active standing in high-velocity digital communities or fandoms (reality TV, gaming, streaming, pop culture) as evidence of real-time fluency, not just a formal credential.
How We'll Measure Success
- Consistent completion of the daily queue against the deadline.
- Decision quality — agreement with peers and the lead on calibration samples, and a low rate of published markets requiring void, amendment, or resettlement.
- Reason quality — structured rejection reasons that are specific and correctly categorized.
- Rewrite quality — published questions that survive contact with the outcome without dispute.
- Proactive contribution — culturally live moments you surface that the pipeline didn't generate.
As a contractor you’ll supply a securecomputer and high‑speed internet; company‑sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply.
Employment type:Freelance Contract
Workplace type:Remote
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