About Slickdeals:
We believe shopping should feel like winning. That’s why 10 million people come to Slickdeals to swap tips, upvote the best finds, and share the thrill of a great deal. Together, our community has saved more than $10 billion over the past 26 years.
We’re profitable, passionate, and in the middle of an exciting evolution—transforming from the internet’s most trusted deal forum into the go-to daily shopping destination. If you thrive in a fast-moving, creative environment where ideas turn into impact fast, you’ll fit right in.
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:
- 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 graveyard shift which will include 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
Work Authorization
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
TCW & Slickdeals are Equal Opportunity Employers; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other protected status. Slickdeals will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the "Ban the Box" legislation. We may access publicly available information as part of your application.
TCW in partnership with Slickdeals participates in E-Verify. For more information, please refer to E-Verify Participation and Right to Work.
TCW in partnership with Slickdeals does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies and is not responsible for related fees.
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