About Slickdeals:
On a mission to bring the joy of discovering a great deal to shoppers, Slickdeals thrives on the active participation of its 10-million-strong community. Users share, upvote, and uncover the best prices on popular products from trustworthy brands.
With a robust track record of 25 years in business, marked by profitability and a thriving community that has saved more than $10 billion, Slickdeals is currently undergoing a transformation. As we evolve into a daily shopping destination for millions more, joining Slickdeals presents an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurially-minded builders to create an innovative deal discovery platform.
The Purpose:
This is a contract position with TCW in partnership with Slickdeals. The ideal Deal Editor candidate is someone who is passionate about deals, loves to learn, knows and is curious about different products/categories, detail oriented, and has the ability to work on their own in a fast paced environment. As a Deal Editor you will help identify and write good deal detail content and merchandise the top trafficked pages of Slickdeals.net to help our shoppers discover great deals.
What You'll Do:
- Keep an eye on the Popular Deals section and use internal tools to consider deals for our Front Page
- Assess the deals by comparing pricing with other stores on the web as well as recent and past deals on Slickdeals, etc.
- Rewrite the deal content for the Front Page and post deals in forums
- Using the basic forum editing interface tools
What We're Looking For:
Required Experience
- Must have access to a computer with a mouse and a headset
- Love for online shopping, understanding consumer behavior, and deal gymnastics (how to achieve the deal price)
- Awareness of social commerce, popular trends, products, and brands
- Ability to articulate in the Slickdeals voice to the community what the deal is and what its attributes are
- Extremely reliable and responsive
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, often juggling multiple assignments at one time
- Proven ability to meet productivity and quality standards
- Able to work holidays and weekends
Preferred Experience:
- An active Slickdeals member in good standing for a minimum of 6 months or longer
- Track record of posting deals members love
- Ecommerce deal content writing and/or merchandising experience
LOCATION: Remote (Anywhere in the United States)
SCHEDULE: Thursday - Monday (Off Tues & Wed)
Thursday & Friday 10am - 6pm PST, Saturday 8am - 4pm PST, Sunday & Monday 10am - 6pm PST