Remote Culture Market Curator & Editor

Agency; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridial seeks a Market Curation Editor for Culture to join the Product Data Operations team supporting a beta social-predictions app. You are the human judgment layer to a nightly automated pipeline, deciding live markets, sharpening near-misses, and catching misses.

You must be fluent in U.S. entertainment and culture, from shows to fandoms, with the ability to adjudicate dates, awards and chart methodology, while upholding community standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in entertainment journalism, editorial, social or community management, or a comparable role.
• Demonstrable fluency in U.S. entertainment culture—TV, film, music, fandom—and up-to-date knowledge.
• Working knowledge of the U.S. media landscape: reliable outlets, real vs. speculative announcements.
• Sound judgment on ambiguity: rumor vs. confirmation, shifting release dates, chart methods.
• Ability to interpret sources quickly and reach defensible determinations.
• Exceptional written precision under deadline.

Responsibilities

• Review a daily queue of system-generated culture markets against a fixed completion deadline.
• Assess each candidate for factual accuracy, clarity, and whether the resolution criteria can actually be adjudicated.
• Verify that open and close timing matches the real event: an announcement, a broadcast, a release, a ceremony.
• Make the relevance call - decide whether a market is genuinely live right now, or technically correct but culturally dead.
• This judgment is the core of the role.
• Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines.
• Culture sits closest to the line on markets about real people - escalates anything touching private life, health, minors, grief, or unverified allegations rather than making an unsupported call.
• Approve, edit, or reject each candidate, recording a structured reason every time.
• Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision and for how fans actually talk, including fandom vocabulary a generic writer would get wrong.
• Author timestamped clarifications when ambiguity emerges in a live market, and handle settlement on markets with no authoritative feed.
• Run proactive gap scans across social platforms, fan communities, and entertainment press for culturally live moments the pipeline missed.
• Participate in weekly calibration reviews to stay consistent with published guidelines and fellow curators.

Skills

Entertainment journalism

US culture fluency

US media landscape

Judgment under ambiguity

Source interpretation

Written precision

Privacy discipline

Evening/weekend availability

Job description

Meridial seeks a Market Curation Editor for Culture to join the Product Data Operations team supporting a beta social-predictions app. You are the human judgment layer to a nightly automated pipeline, deciding live markets, sharpening near-misses, and catching misses.

You must be fluent in U.S. entertainment and culture, from shows to fandoms, with the ability to adjudicate dates, awards and chart methodology, while upholding community standards.