Now that the summer seems to have sadly departed, you’d be totally forgiven for retiring to your bedroom early of an evening to devour entire box sets and semi-rubbish films on Netflix. However, you might want to set aside some of that time to sort out your CV, as Netflix the company is looking for someone to binge-watch loads of their films and TV for them.
They need a bright spark to categorise the films and tag them up so that viewers can be guided round the site’s homepage using a fancy algorithm. Yes, apparently the site is organised by more than those broad ‘Kids’, ‘Documentaries’ and ‘Romcoms’ categories, and the recommendations you get through friends on Facebook who you don’t know that well (but you know love House of Cards).
‘Successful applicants will be responsible for watching and analysing films and TV programmes that will be streaming on Netflix in the future. The tagger will deconstruct the films and programmes and describe them using objective tags.’
If you’re wondering what the catch is, it probably is that you have to watch some really rubbish TV and films, and might have to sit around on your sofa more than is socially acceptable. But on the plus side, it’s flexible hours and you might get to serve as an ‘UK/IE cultural consultant, highlighting UK/IE cultural specificities and taste preferences,’ basically telling people what British and European people like and don’t like.
There’s no mention of the salary, but it’s a pretty big company, so we’d doubt that they’d scrimp on paying someone for this important role. So if you’ve got a degree or training in film history or experience behind the camera and don’t get sore eyes from watching hours of TV… and can think of some very precise tags to help categorise films and TV, then it’s totally up for grabs.
Get some eyedrops and give it a go!
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.