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Chief Question Officer

Location: London, UK
Employment Type: Full-time

What You’ll Do

Over the course of 12 months, the Chief Content Officer will have taken ownership of ensuring every single existing question in Outsmarted meets our extremely high standards, and grown our library of question packs from 50 to 200 within 12 months, across 10+ international markets. In your first two months, you’ll have developed a network of the world’s best question writers in all regions, helping evolve Outsmarted into the Netflix of trivia products, by achieving the following:

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  • Quality checking all existing 15,000 questions in the Outsmarted app, across all regions – the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

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  • Ensure a minimum of 50 Breaking News questions are added weekly in every single region.

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  • Develop and maintain a funnel for recruiting the world’s best freelance question writers. Working directly with the COO, you’ll design a commission-based incentive scheme and software system for managing and compensating question writers.

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  • Develop a question quality control process to ensure all new & existing questions in the Outsmarted app are error free and meet a pre-defined quality threshold.

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  • Work with translators to produce local versions of the Outsmarted core pack of 6,000 questions, in Spanish, Swedish, and Norwegian. As well as ensuring all 10+ markets have high quality local question content.

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  • Develop a content release schedule for all regions, releasing an additional 150+ question category packs across all regions (15,000 – 20,000 questions total), managing all international question writers and taking total ownership of quality control.

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  • Coordinate with QPLAY’s back-end developer to ensure our question management system is optimal for managing multiple question contributors and version control.

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  • Work closely with QPLAY’s Community Manager and Customer Success Manager to ensure all newly released & scheduled content is in tune with customer preferences & demand.

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  • Assist QPLAY’s Community Manager to ensure all new content is continually promoted for a combined target of 1 million of content sales in 2023.

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  • Report sales of all content on a weekly basis to the entire QPLAY team.

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  • Coordinate with co-founders on creative ideas for new question formats, which could be incorporated in Outsmarted.

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  • Manage licensing partnerships with image, music & video licensed content partnerships and explore new partnerships to enhance the quality of Outsmarted questions. Track & record all content assets used in the Outsmarted app.

Who You Are

  • You yourself are a great question writer: In order to be a successful CCO, you will be a perfectionist, and a very creative & talented question writer, understanding the idiosyncrasies of what makes a great quiz question, and the most exciting ways to ask it.

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  • You are a problem solver: Quality checking 20,000 questions and producing 15,000 new ones can be done in a number of ways. Investing in recruiting a network of the world’s best writers will maximize your chances. How creative will you be in finding them?

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  • You’re a team player without ego: As a small team of four Outsmartians, growing to ten, everyone must have both a unique and valuable contribution to the mission, and enjoy collaborating within our small team.

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  • You are curious & like tech: You show an interest and aptitude for researching useful new software tools & technologies for producing the world’s best quiz questions.

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  • You have a flexible attitude: Can adapt to changing environment and an evolving product; possess a willingness to attack problems from new angle.

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  • You have a startup mentality: Our goal is to hire a leader, not a manager, with a bootstrapping approach, accepting that menial tasks are sometimes necessary.

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  • You must have: Advanced Excel skills, excellent written English. Bonus points for any experience associated with writing or managing questions for TV shows or production companies, or managing teams of content contributors.

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Where You’ll Work

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QPLAY has a hybrid work model. We recognize the power of choice and importance of flexibility for the well-being of both our company and our individual Outsmartians. A typical week will require 3 days per week spent in our Bromley office, and the rest in your own space. 

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What We Offer

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We offer a competitive salary of £35,000 - £45,000. We’re also proud to offer access to an exciting Share Option Scheme for this particular role. As a VC backed start-up, in making yourself indispensable to the mission, there’s no limit to what the opportunity can bring.

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