Curation Specialist

Company Description

Our mission: Spread ideas, foster community and create impact

TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.

Job Description

Position Overview:

TED is looking for a Curation Specialist for TED@Work. We are looking for someone with excellent information management skills and a sharp editorial eye, who can continue to shape the way clients experience TED ideas within the corporate learning context. 

Core to this role is client curation: based on client needs and their learning goals (provided by the TED@Work Customer Success team), producing high-quality curation recommendations for clients. (80% of role).

This individual will also maintain the relevance of the TED@Work library and client-facing playlists, which includes the following responsibilities: assigning new talks from TED.com, the TEDx review pipeline, and other pipelines to add to the TED@Work library (on a quarterly basis); overseeing the strategic retirement of older talks (annually); maintaining accurate metadata for courses, including tagging and talk classification; and refreshing client-facing playlists on the TED@Work platform (20% of role). 

The ideal candidate for this role has previous experience in content development and content curation, with a minimum 4 years of experience in these domains. Deep experience with TED’s library of content is a huge plus. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of and/or interest in the Learning & Development space. 

This role will become an expert in TED’s content (across TED Talks, TED-Ed animations, podcasts and TED original series) and manage a growing collection that comprises TED’s library for corporate learning. Thus, we are looking for someone who can absorb and maintain a mental inventory of an extensive library of content and metadata, using their knowledge of TED ideas and L&D industry trends to make smart editorial decisions, and informed recommendations for clients. 

This individual will also be tasked with other content-focused projects, including helping with data hygiene and drafting playlist descriptions.

Responsibilities: 

• Learning and staying up-to-date on the TED content library (including published, and to-be-published talks) to maintain the freshness and relevance of the TED@Work collection. 
• Executing client curation based on clients’ learning goals and strategies: translating client needs into which target skills/insights to support, and which TED Talks would be most relevant. 
• Executing an editorial workflow involving curation, metadata creation, and database organization. 
• Maintaining a complex, multi-partner database that reflects partner curation. 
• Staying up-to-date on L&D industry trends: understanding the evolving content and business needs of customers. 
• Assisting with market research. 
• Assisting with other content development and marketing execution tasks as needed.
• Other duties and special projects across TED@Work may be assigned. 
• Willingness to contribute however possible to ensure overall effectiveness and positive impact of position.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience

• Up-to-date knowledge of the Learning & Development landscape: existing, new and emerging learning trends, common or pressing problems companies are solving for, competitor offerings, and beyond. 
• Demonstrated ability to adhere to a “brand voice” and TED’s brand positioning.
• Experience owning or maintaining a large content library and/or a Content Management System (CMS).
• Experience in project management, which will be necessary in being able to produce curation recommendations against strict client deadlines.
• An understanding of editorial/production workflows between content development and design. 
• Prior content curation experience is a huge plus. 
• Fluency in a second language is a huge plus. 

Skills, Abilities and Traits: 

• Excellent editorial judgment to determine content appropriateness and alignment to client’s business needs. 
• Ability to synthesize client’s needs and apply them to TED@Work curation outputs, finding adjacent talks and making creative recommendations where needed. 
• Stellar project management and organizational skills in a fast-paced, deadline-driven context. 
• Stellar attention to detail and polish in work, in creating spreadsheets and documents that will be shared with clients. 
• High comfort level managing technologies that power our workflows (Airtable, AWS, Excel, etc). 
• A fabulous work-ethic. 
• Team-oriented. 
• Creative problem solver. 
• Deadline driven, self starter.
• Customer satisfaction focused.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in the content development space. 
• B.A. or equivalent.
• Must be based in the NYC area and able to work a hybrid schedule.

Additional Information

Salary range: $70,000 - $80,000