Content Discovery & Growth Lead DeviantArt

As a Content Discovery & Growth Lead youll design and shape what users see on the DeviantArt network. Youll be tasked with a dual mission: grow discovery and engagement through relevant and engaging recommendations for a rich and holistic browsing experience while safeguarding quality and network health. This role involves significant collaboration with remote teams primarily in Vancouver Canada. Central to your success will be the ability to close the feedback loop bridging the gap between human taste and machine learning.

In your day-to-day you will 

• Lead the directional framework and principles for content consumption across the network working collaboratively to balance conflicting KPIs and metrics with stakeholders. 

• Design comprehensive offline and online evaluation frameworks and set guidelines for content discovery and recommendations by translating community insights and human taste into inputs that inform scalable machine learning signals. 

• Collaborate with ML teams to bridge the gap between high-level quality definitions and low-level feature engineering ensuring models capture nuances like artistic style medium and technical execution while delivering on network KPIs.

• Translate user consumption needs into product requirements and help plan the product roadmap to meet those needs. 

Qualifications :

• 5 years of experience in editorial curation content strategy or a related field 

• Competence in data analysis and A/B testing with the ability to run experiments and analyze user behavior 

• Understanding of how recommendation models work and the ability to communicate effectively with machine learning engineers (embedding-based retrieval collaborative content-based filtering).

• Strong user empathy and understanding of the psychology of creators and consumers including how network changes impact their livelihood and creativity 

• Experience working closely with remote teams and managing cross-location collaboration 

• Experience with taxonomy design or designing annotation tasks for human-in-the-loop systems to create high-quality training data an advantage 

Additional Information :

DeviantArt is the worlds largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts and a platform for emerging and established artists to exhibit promote and share their works with an enthusiastic art-centric community. Were the movement for the liberation of creative expression. We believe that art is for everyone and were creating the cultural context for how its created discovered and shared.

Founded in August 2000 and part of Wix since 2017 we have over 100 million registered members and attract over 120 million unique visitors per month. Our members known as deviants upload tens of thousands of original pieces of art every day. DeviantArt also enables creators to monetize their work and during the first half of 2025 over tens of thousands of creators sold for more than $10 million USD in network.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time