Curation Specialist, EMEA New

OpenSesame; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenSesame, a remote-first UK-based company, seeks a Curation Specialist for EMEA. You will translate the learning goals of EMEA customers into high‑quality course mappings, curated lists, and learning paths to make the marketplace easy to use and relevant across languages and compliance needs.

You will partner with the EMEA Sales and Customer Success teams, establish relationships with publishers, map courses daily, identify content gaps, localize materials, and support customer training

Responsibilities

• Translate the learning goals of EMEA customers into high-quality course mappings, curated lists, learning paths and recommendations to make the OpenSesame marketplace easy to use.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the EMEA Sales and Customer Success teams, and bring marketplace expertise to customer conversations, pre-sales calls, RFPs, and presentations across the region.
• Create reusable programs, resources, documentation, and best practices that let OpenSesame deliver curation value consistently across EMEA markets and at scale.
• Share marketplace and learning-industry insights relevant to EMEA with internal teams, and contribute to customer-facing resources, webinars, or other thought‑leadership efforts.
• Manage a portfolio of EMEA publisher relationships: act as the primary point of contact, coordinate internal support, share constructive feedback, and identify opportunities to strengthen the publisher offering in the region.
• Surface content gaps, quality issues, and opportunities that improve how EMEA customers discover and use learning content — including content localized for the region's languages and regulatory requirements.
• Keep requests, project details, and stakeholder communication organized and current in the team's operating systems. Deliver clear updates and dependable follow‑through in a fast‑moving environment, across time zones spanning the EMEA region.
• Contribute to cross‑functional initiatives aligned to team and company priorities, including improvements to curation processes, product experiences, and go‑to‑market enablement for EMEA.
• Overlap your working hours with core EMEA business hours to stay accessible to regional customers, publishers, and colleagues.
• Travel as needed for department and full‑team events, both within EMEA and, occasionally, to global company gatherings — typically less than 10% of your time.

Job description

OpenSesame is transforming workforce development with an AI-powered marketplace of skill-building courses and learning pathways. We help organizations build skills and stay compliant through a high-quality content catalog, seamless LMS/LXP integrations, and advanced capabilities like skills-based curation and multilingual content creation. More than 2,000 companies, including 150+ of the Global 2000, rely on OpenSesame to develop the world's most productive and admired workforces.
Learn more: www.opensesame.com/about

About the Role

Most people see a marketplace of over 60,000 training courses. We build something bigger: the chance for companies across the world to upgrade the skills of every employee they have. Global 2000 companies across the region rely on our training programs to build their most productive and admired workforces, and we back that trust with strategic partnerships.

The Curation Team turns a broad, global learning marketplace into focused, effective learning experiences for EMEA customers, prospects, and publishers. As a Curation Specialist, you will pair strong marketplace knowledge with a consultative approach to recommend the right content, build curated programs, and help EMEA customers make progress toward their workforce development goals — while accounting for the region's language diversity, local compliance needs (including GDPR), and varied working cultures.

What You Will Do

• Translate the learning goals of EMEA customers and prospects into high-quality course mappings, curated lists, learning paths, and other recommendations that make the OpenSesame marketplace easy to use.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the EMEA Sales and Customer Success teams, and bring marketplace expertise to customer conversations, pre-sales calls, RFPs, and presentations across the region.
• Create reusable programs, resources, documentation, and best practices that let OpenSesame deliver curation value consistently across EMEA markets and at scale.
• Share marketplace and learning-industry insights relevant to EMEA with internal teams, and contribute to customer-facing resources, webinars, or other thought‑leadership efforts.
• Manage a portfolio of EMEA publisher relationships: act as the primary point of contact, coordinate internal support, share constructive feedback, and identify opportunities to strengthen the publisher offering in the region.
• Surface content gaps, quality issues, and opportunities that improve how EMEA customers discover and use learning content — including content localized for the region's languages and regulatory requirements.
• Keep requests, project details, and stakeholder communication organized and current in the team's operating systems. Deliver clear updates and dependable follow‑through in a fast‑moving environment, across time zones spanning the EMEA region.
• Contribute to cross‑functional initiatives aligned to team and company priorities, including improvements to curation processes, product experiences, and go‑to‑market enablement for EMEA.
• Overlap your working hours with core EMEA business hours to stay accessible to regional customers, publishers, and colleagues.
• Travel as needed for department and full‑team events, both within EMEA and, occasionally, to global company gatherings — typically less than 10% of your time.

Performance Objectives

Within 30 Days

• Build a comprehensive understanding of the OpenSesame curation process and tools.
• Identify the needs of EMEA customers and see where curation fits into their journey.

Within 60 Days

• Establish yourself as the internal and external expert on OpenSesame's course offering for the EMEA region.
• Perform course mappings for EMEA customers regularly and navigate the OpenSesame catalog skillfully on a daily basis.
• Establish relationships with at least 5 publishers serving the region.

Within 90 Days

• Complete curation projects on behalf of 50 unique EMEA customers, and establish relationships with at least 15 publishers serving the region.
• Curate elearning course curricula confidently to support the launch and expansion of customer training initiatives across EMEA markets.

Within 120 Days

• Complete curation requests consistently.
• Serve as each publisher's primary point of contact within OpenSesame, and coordinate internal efforts to support and maintain strong, ongoing publisher relationships across the region.

Within 1 year

• Build strong relationships with 10 or more EMEA publishers, and earn consistently positive feedback from customers and internal stakeholders.
• Support EMEA customers at every stage of the course curation process, and create actionable project plans based on their unique business skills training goals.

Within 18 months

• Become the go‑to resource on the team for questions related to OpenSesame's business skills catalog in EMEA. Think strategically about curation, and identify opportunities to develop programs that help EMEA customers curate at scale.
• Earn trust as an expert for both internal and external stakeholders across the region.

Within 2 years

• Earn promotion to Senior Curation Specialist, EMEA, after building a reputation of excellence with regional publishers, customers, and OpenSesame teammates

You might notice we don’t list a traditional set of requirements or buzzwords here. That’s intentional. We’re looking for proven examples from your career that show your attention to detail, your drive to constantly improve, and your motivation to support your teammates.

Although it should go without saying (but it doesn’t), OpenSesame is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to create a welcoming, inclusive environment that celebrates diversity.

We use AI. For real.

Every team at OpenSesame works with AI tools daily, not as a buzzword, but as practice. You'll build fluency that most companies are still talking about adopting, with hands‑on training and clear guardrails to experiment responsibly. AI amplifies your creativity and judgment. It doesn't replace them. The skills you build here travel with you.

Location

This position can be based anywhere in the United Kingdom. We operate as a remote‑first company, and invest in mandatory all‑company meetings several times a year in addition to required team travel as necessary. All positions require up to 15 days of travel per year. This role will require travel as needed for department and full‑team events, both within EMEA and, occasionally, to global company gatherings, typically less than 10% of your time.

Performance Driven

We're looking for self‑stammers with a track record of delivering excellent results, but we're highly selective about who we hire. We don't focus on typical job requirements, instead, we're interested in specific examples from your past experiences.

Compensation

We carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors, relying on market data to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience. At OpenSesame, we prioritize pay transparency, fairness, and equity to create a positive and inclusive work environment, regularly reviewing our compensation practices to align with our values and goals. We provide competitive and fair compensation to our employees based on their skills, experience, and performance.

Equal Employment Opportunity

OpenSesame is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affinectionary Action employer that values and welcomes diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of various legally protected characteristics, including criminal history, and strive to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. We prioritize safety and security and may use your information accordingly, and you can contact us for assistance or accommodations during the job application process.