Market Curation Editor (Culture)

The role

You will act as a human judgment layer for an automated pipeline of candidate prediction markets. You will review, edit, and approve system-generated culture markets to ensure factual accuracy and cultural relevance.

What you will do

• Review a daily queue of system-generated culture markets against a fixed completion deadline.
• Assess candidates for factual accuracy, clarity, and adjudication feasibility.
• Verify that open and close timing matches the real event.
• Decide if a market is genuinely live or culturally dead.
• Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines.
• Approve, edit, or reject each candidate and record a structured reason.
• Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision and fandom vocabulary.
• Author timestamped clarifications and handle settlement on markets with no authoritative feed.
• Run proactive gap scans across social platforms, fan communities, and entertainment press.
• Participate in weekly calibration reviews.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in entertainment journalism, editorial, social or community management, or a comparable role requiring current subject-matter expertise.
• Demonstrable current fluency in U.S. entertainment culture — television, film, music, celebrity, and fandom landscape.
• Working knowledge of the U.S. media landscape.
• Sound judgment on ambiguity.
• Ability to interpret sources quickly and reach a defensible determination.
• Exceptional written precision under deadline.
• Strong instinct for where a market about a real person crosses from public interest into private life.
• Availability for evening, overnight, and weekend work around live events.

Nice to have

• Current or former entertainment journalist
• Experience trading on, participating in, or otherwise familiar with the workings of prediction markets.
• Prior work in a newsroom, or managing large social platforms for a news or entertainment brand with a hard daily deadline.
• Familiarity with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards
• A track record of spotting trends and big moments forming in real time.
• Experience contributing to guidelines, style guides, or annotation standards.
• Genuine, active standing in high-velocity digital communities or fandoms

About the company

Meridial places skilled, remote-first professionals into high-trust, high-precision operational roles for leading technology companies. Their teams work as an embedded extension of clients' own product and operations organizations.