Market Curation Editor (Culture)

Market Curation Editor (Culture) | Freelance Contract | Worldwide Remote Join a fast-moving Product Data Operations team supporting a new social-predictions app in beta. As a Market Curation Editor focused on Culture, you serve as the human judgment layer over an automated pipeline — reviewing, refining, and approving prediction markets centered on U.S. entertainment and pop culture. This role demands deep, real-time fluency in television, film, music, celebrity, and fandom — not just historical knowledge, but what people are talking about right now .

What You'll Do Review a daily queue of system-generated culture markets against a fixed completion deadline. Assess each candidate for factual accuracy, clarity, and adjudicable resolution criteria — accounting for shifting release dates, changing awards categories, and revised chart methodologies. Verify that market open and close timing aligns with real-world events: announcements, broadcasts, releases, and ceremonies.

Make relevance calls — determining whether a market is culturally live or technically correct but effectively dead. Confirm policy compliance against community standards and content guidelines, escalating any markets touching private life, health, minors, grief, or unverified allegations. Approve, edit, or reject candidates with structured, categorized reasoning — this record is a core product deliverable.

Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision and authentic fandom voice. Author timestamped clarifications for live markets and handle settlement where no authoritative feed exists. Proactively scan social platforms, fan communities, and entertainment press for culturally significant moments the pipeline missed. Participate in weekly calibration reviews to maintain consistency with published guidelines and fellow curators.

What We're Looking For 3+ years in entertainment journalism, editorial, or social/community management with current subject-matter expertise. Demonstrable, active fluency in U.S. entertainment culture — TV, film, music, celebrity, and fandom — following it now. 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 vs. confirmation, contested outcomes, and shifting methodologies. Exceptional written precision under deadline — crafting unambiguous rules that hold up after outcomes are known. Strong instinct for when coverage of a real person crosses from public interest into private life, with the discipline to escalate rather than guess. Availability for evening, overnight, and weekend work around live events.

Nice to Have Background as an entertainment journalist (e.g., Entertainment Tonight, People, BuzzFeed News, or a relevant Substack). Familiarity with prediction markets as a participant or observer. Prior newsroom experience or managing social platforms for a news or entertainment brand under hard daily deadlines. Experience with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards around private individuals.

A track record of spotting trends and cultural moments forming in real time. Active standing in high-velocity digital communities or fandoms (reality TV, streaming, pop culture, gaming). How Success Is Measured Consistent, on-time completion of the daily market queue. Decision quality — strong agreement with peers on calibration samples and a low rate of markets requiring void or amendment. Reason quality — structured, specific, and correctly categorized rejection rationale.

Rewrite quality — published questions that survive contact with real-world outcomes without dispute. Proactive contribution — culturally live moments surfaced that the pipeline didn't generate. As a contractor, you will supply your own secure computer and high-speed internet. Company-sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply.