Product - Talent Community

Curated Product Teams periodically hire for a variety of different roles. Apply to join our talent community and be considered as relevant positions open up! 

The Product Team at Curated is highly strategic, focusing on the long-term growth of the platform

We especially value people who can think holistically about the big picture, while also being able to zoom in and derive meaningful insights from data. The Product organization is currently broken into a few functional areas, though our PMs tend to work fluidly across them. 

• Consumer: Curated.com. Consumer PMs are typically very data attentive, focused on building diversified growth flywheels and user-centric product innovations. 
• Expert: Expert PMs build the product and technology that enables experts to connect with customers in real-time, empower them with intelligent insights, and optimize supply and demand in the marketplace.
• Platform: Platform PMs tend to be more technical, focused on core systems that drive scale and efficiency, including everything from machine learning solutions to physical inventory management. 
• Growth: Growth PMs work cross-functionally to drive acquisition, activation, and retention of consumers, experts, and partners.

Why you'll love working here 

• Inspiring experts. Everything we do is to make our experts successful. When our experts are successful, our customers have an amazing experience and get products they love. Our experts are students, firefighters, teachers, stay-at-home moms, golf pros, authors, retired restaurant managers, and more. 
• The product. When an expert and a customer click, the end result is magical.
• Fantastic team. Led by industry veterans with multiple successful exits under their belts, we’re a small, tightly-knit team of innovators, creators, and builders. 
• High trust culture. We seek to enable team members with minimal red tape. We operate from the assumption that our teammates are well-intentioned and chasing high-impact challenges. 

How we interview

Our interview process varies by team, but we always commit to transparent and timely communication. We know that interviewing takes time, energy, and commitment, so we do our best to facilitate a fulfilling and high-context experience. For Product, our interview process typically goes something like this: 

• Recruiter Screen. First, candidates connect with a Recruiter for a 30-minute introductory call. These calls provide us with an opportunity to learn about your background and interests, while also sharing a bit about Curated and screening for surface-level skills alignment. 
• Hiring Manager Interview. Next, a member of the Product team conducts a phone interview for a deeper technical dive. On these calls, you can expect to discuss past projects, general product sensibility, and often hypothetical problem-solving. These calls are typically 45 minutes to an hour long. 
• Take-Home Assessment. For some positions, we frontload a tightly-scoped exercise to better understand how you work and to evaluate an apples-to-apples work sample. When we issue a test, we do our best to keep the scope reasonable. We review it in detail, and usually have follow-up conversations about your solution. 
• “Face to Face” Interviews. After that, we’ll arrange four 45-minute face to face interviews, often in sets of two. These interviews focus on different aspects of the role and often include relevant stakeholders from adjacent functions. We’ll let you know who you’re meeting in advance, and commonly evaluate the following: 
• Business acumen
• Strategy
• Analytical thinking
• Execution
• End-user empathy
• Technical & general communication

From there, we typically take a more open approach to ensure that all of your questions have been answered and that our team is likewise comfortable moving forward!

Interview Tips

Here are a few general guidelines that will help you to be successful throughout your interview experience:

• Get to know our space. If you’re not already familiar with e-commerce, gig-economy companies, or marketplaces, spend some time familiarizing yourself with these topics and exploring our platform. Don’t worry about bothering experts for their time; they’re compensated for conversations and will be happy to connect. 
• Past projects can provide a ton of insight into your skills, expertise, and history of delivering impressive products or features. Prepare to go into detail on past projects that demonstrate your range of skills. How might you change your approach if you did the same project today? 
• Think out loud. We’re very interested in understanding your thought process - how you break down problems, set goals, choose success metrics, prioritize features, etc.
• Collaboration is critical at Curated. Be prepared to talk about experiences working directly with stakeholders with different perspectives; engineers, designers, executives, users, etc. 
• Ask questions. A great way of demonstrating engagement and critical thinking skills is by asking poignant questions.

Skills and Qualifications

Job requirements vary by team and role, but we generally see a few themes among our strongest candidates for Product roles.

• Culture and Values Alignment. Every new hire moves our company culture by one game piece, either reinforcing aspects of our existing culture or moving us in a new direction. 
• Passion. We care a lot about our business, and we are looking for people who are inspired by what we do. Our goals are to eliminate buyer's remorse and to enable passionate experts to monetize their knowledge. We want missionaries, not mercenaries! 
• Problem-Solving Skills. We're a startup, which means we have limited resources and big challenges, some of which are fundamentally unique. We look for people who prioritize high-impact opportunities and identify viable solutions to tricky problems. We’ve seen excellent problem-solving skills across diverse candidate backgrounds, ranging from:
• Startup experience, such as shipping under tight deadlines and working effectively with limited resources. 
• Depth. We look for proven experience and people who have "done it before." 
• We are especially excited about candidates who have role-relevant product engineering experience, at scale, at consumer technology companies. 
• Analytical Skills. Data informs almost every meaningful decision that we make at Curated. We look for people who are comfortable tying together datasets, building thoughtful models, and cutting through the noise to drive positive impact. 
• Leadership. We have an entrepreneurial culture built on collective trust. Every employee at Curated is an owner and is the subject matter expert for some piece of the bigger picture. We look for people who take pride in their work. 
• Collaboration. Most of our work is cross-functional, and we will only be successful if we continue to work well together. We are a low-ego, low-bureaucracy, flat organization, focused on coming together to solve novel challenges.