Design Curator

Overview

Creative Market is the platform where independent creators buy and sell digital design assets. Our mission is to help creators around the world turn passion into opportunity. As a Design Curator, you will help make this mission a reality by curating and featuring the best products and shops from the marketplace. Your work will impact millions of creators around the world. You will strive to give well deserved exposure to shop owners who work hard to create great products. You will work closely with different teams on topics such as marketplace trends, shop behaviors, brand design, user experience, product creation, and product promotion.

Design Team Purpose

As a Design Curator on the Design Team, you will be the embodiment of the design team’s mission and vision. These will be reflected in all aspects of your work. Our team’s mission is to create a unique, cohesive experience for our community through one unified design system. Our team’s vision is to balance and improve long-term growth with great user experience across our products and brand.

Responsibilities

• Review applications from users who request to open a shop—checking for quality, diversity, and integrity in the applications.
• Browse new product uploads each day and pick high quality products to feature onsite, offsite, and in email promotions.
• Select products from a diverse collection of free asset downloads to share with users each week.
• Manage the monthly Creative Market Big Bundle by identifying and coordinating with talented shop owners.
• Bolster the Support Team’s trust and safety efforts by helping to monitor new and existing shops’ behavior.
• Work with the GrowthTeam on improving shop owner participation, shaping product creation education, and tracking marketplace and shop owner trends.
• Stay updated on design trends in the industry and provide insights from your curation work on the marketplace with the team.
• Examine new product files to assess quality and create use case examples for the purpose of promotion.
• Manage a dashboard that tracks the metrics that are important to your curation work and provide quarterly reports to the team.
• Interact with community members to support their experience on Creative Market.

About You

• Design Eye: You have a strong sense of current visual trends in design and photography. You have an impeccable eye for high-quality design work and can easily identify how useful and effective assets might be to potential customers.
• Professional: You hold yourself to high standards of decorum and discipline. You are a productive, hard-working, autonomous individual with a deep sense of responsibility.
• Selfless: You lack ego and put the best interests of the community, team, and business above your own.
• Learner & Teacher: You love learning about why and how our users exchange core value on our platform. You stay curious about what’s possible in the marketplace and industry, and share what you discover with the team.
• Communicative: You have great listening and empathy skills. You keep others updated on all aspects of your work and proactively reach out before critical issues arise. You communicate with clarity and brevity. You articulate your decisions in a way that defines the problem and how you solved it.
• Collaborative: You value exchanging feedback with your teammates. You offer to help them on their projects and seek out their input on your work and its impact on our users and business.
• User-Focused: You curate products through the lens of the customer’s perception and experience. You value the time and effort our shop owners invest in building their products and desire to help them improve their work.
• Detail-Oriented: You are able to quickly pick up on trends and patterns of behavior. You care deeply about the small details that help influence your decisions, and love to back up what you find with supporting data.

Experiences Desired

• You have a B.A. or B.F.A. in a design-related field (or an equivalent level of education)
• You have 2+ years experience working as a designer in a professional setting.
• You care about your peers in the design and creative professional communities and have a track record of supporting them.
• Bonus: You have experience working on a marketplace or eCommerce business.
• Bonus: You have experience working in a startup environment.

We’re Offering

• Location: San Francisco, CA preferred. Remote in the U.S.A. acceptable in the following states: CA, TX, NC, CO, WA, and NY.
• Competitive compensation
• Stock options
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid time off
• New workstation