Curated Cutlery / Knives Expert (Contract) – Curated

33% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 228% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $141.5M Venture Funding

What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?

Turn your knowledge into reliable income.  Connect with customers.  Build a community. Work from anywhere. 

Curated, founded in 2017, is an online marketplace that provides shoppers with one-on-one personalized advice to find the right products, which they purchase directly on Curated’s website. We have a network of over 1,000 experts who get paid to provide their knowledge to customers, bringing an in-person shopping experience online. 

We are expanding into new product categories, and hiring for Category Launch Specialists in Cutlery / Knives. As a Category Launch Specialist, you will focus on building out the expert side of our new Cutlery category from the ground up – interacting with and selling to customers, engaging with prospective experts, and helping us define our systems and practices. You’ll also be joining a supportive community of people who share your love of all things cooking and cutlery.

Key Duties:

• Engaging with and providing product recommendations to prospective customers, while building enthusiasm for our marketplace and brand. 
• Supporting content creations needs, such as writing articles, compiling top most recommended product lists, generating Q&A content, etc.
• Validating our approach to marketing (keywords, landing pages, images, etc.)
• Vetting other prospective experts for technical knowledge and fit with Curated.

What you will bring:

• Experience working with a range of kitchen knife styles / brands, and ability to speak to the technical differences between different products
• Excellent written communication skills, and the ability to connect with customers while off-shift (via cell phone or computer)
• Strong organizational skills and self-motivated to thrive in a remote position
• Previous sales or customer service experience
• A product mindset – willing to confront a new market opportunity, and think with us on how to best serve that market 
• Consistent access to a computer and reliable internet connection
• Nice to have: ACF certification, Culinary Arts degree

Other details:

• We are initially conceiving of this as a temporary 3-month role, as we build out the category – with longer mandates a possibility
• Upon category launch, you will have a guaranteed minimum salary, plus the opportunity to earn commissions and 100% of tips on certain sales transactions!

Note: This position is 100% remote. You can work from anywhere with a computer and reliable Wi-Fi.

Tagged as: >100% 2 Yr Employee Growth, 201-500 Employees, Hide US-Only Jobs, Venture Funded