Careers

About the Role

Catch&Release Engineering is looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join our team. You’ll report to the VP of Engineering and be responsible for the frontend and backend code in our system.

You’ll be expected to pick up new concepts quickly and will likely make your first commit on your first day. We expect that all our engineers will provide feedback on how we can learn, grow, and make the engineering department continue to get better.

What You'll Work On

• Communicate persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation
• Mentor, pair, and delegate work to encourage the growth of those around them
• Use fundamental patterns and provide examples for others to follow
• Make well-reasoned decisions that inspire and energizes others
• Become intimately familiar with the systems they build and take pride in writing maintainable code
• Are technical leaders who know how to break down work that others can contribute to confidently
• Help recruit, interview, and generally make Catch&Release a great home for developers

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years building web applications
• You use Ruby, Javascript and SQL or are comfortable learning a new language
• Comfortable in any part of the stack
• You are known for being a great communicator and use various tactics (pictures, metaphors, storytelling etc) to improve understanding
• You write tests to improve the design and quality of code
• You are organized and focused when working toward a goal
• You show humility when you are right and have the confidence to admit mistakes
• You are passionate about building products that feel fun and intuitive to use
• You have been a technical lead on a team that built something you are proud of
• You have a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other related field

Who We Are

At Catch&Release Engineering, we are striving to not do things just because that's how it's been done. We're in, what we consider to be, a lifelong effort to create the best environment that breeds great work.

In our engineering day-to-day, we strive for clear, easy to understand, and maintainable code. We also believe that great engineering is not about a list of things we have to do, but rather it's a way we have to be about the job to achieve great things.

Get in Touch

Ready to make a sizable impact and redefine the advertising production industry? Drop us a line at careers+engineering@catchandrelease.com.

About the Role:
Catch&Release’s sales leadership is seeking a dynamic Account Director to join our growing sales team. This is a great opportunity to join an early-stage company that's already highly productive, results-oriented, and team-driven, creating a strong foundation to build from. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with advertising agencies and marketers. Successful candidates will be motivated, enthusiastic, self-starters who are able to work effectively both independently and in a team environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Achieve / exceed quarterly revenue quotas by successfully working across active accounts, while maintaining continuity of clients’ relationship with Catch&Release.
• Develop list of targeted Contacts and Accounts with sales leadership and track progress.
• Screen potential new project deals, analyze opportunities, deal requirements, revenue potential & profitability, collaborate with project management teams to execute.
• Continually demonstrate knowledge and support of C&R’s mission, vision, values and standards, policies and procedures, operations, workflows, confidentiality, and spirit.
• Maintain an active following of the industry and technology developments as they relate to our customers, prospects, and competitors.
• Provide customer and market advice internally to all functional areas as needed.
• Take part in recurring departmental training, maintaining current knowledge of Product offering, messaging, and value proposition.
• Service and drive customer satisfaction for accounts in territory.
• Drive mindshare and market share gains across agencies through consistent and strategic coverage plans.
• Partner with the Operations teams to set proper expectations with customers and super-serve their needs.
• Develop presentations to brands and agencies designed to educate.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to maximize advertising revenue, including product marketing, research, project management, and more.
• Structure and direct the entire sales process from account identification to close.

What You Bring: 

• Polished skills across all phases of Project and Account Discovery, Bidding, Negotiation, Closing, and Account Management.
• Natural ability to manage, lead, and support multiple projects and initiatives.
• Reliable pipeline replenishment and revenue forecasting skills.
• Stellar ability at networking and building relationships.
• Ability to navigate internally within organizations to uncover decision-makers and additional revenue opportunities.
• Established relationships within Advertising agencies and/or Fortune 500 Brands.
• Proficiency working in Salesforce CRM, Google Suite, Slack.
• 4 years’+ prior experience in a sales role.
• BA/BS required.
• Prior demonstrated prospecting experience through cold calling, networking and meeting functions.
• Proven track record of reaching sales targets and revenue goals

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Knowledge of intellectual property licensing and/or industry-related experience is an added plus.
• Being knowledgeable and savvy with digital and social platforms, with an in-depth knowledge of the commercial production process is a plus. 

Location: New York, Chicago, Remote

Location: Remote

Reports To: Head of Product 

About the Role:
The Senior Product Designer we hire for this role will own all aspects of design across our platform. This means you will design products and experiences for our Agency and Brand advertisers (demand side), our creative contributors who license their user generated content (supply side), and for our internal teams who connect the two sides of our business together.

You’ll work closely with our product and engineering teams to turn complex problems into intuitive user experiences that solve the needs of our customers while driving the company towards achieving our objectives.

You’ll have a tremendous impact on the company and be able to see your work get to market quickly. We value someone who is creative, self-driven, customer-oriented, organized, can understand the big picture, and doesn’t let any details slip through the cracks. This position will report directly to our Head of Product.

What You’ll Do:

• Deeply understand our customers’ needs and pain points
• Work at the intersection of interaction design, visual design, customer empathy, business strategy, and product thinking
• Own the visual, UI, and UX design of all products across our platform
• Translate quantitative data and qualitative insights from user research and stakeholder feedback into hypotheses and informed product and design decisions
• Be a partner to Product in identifying requirements, use cases, and user journeys
• Create high-fidelity prototypes to convey your design vision
• Quickly iterate on your designs based on design reviews, user testing, data analysis, and customer feedback
• Own and evolve our design system, including visual design, UI components, and UX patterns

Who You Bring: 

• 4+ years of experience owning the end to end product design process. You have designed multiple products from concept through launch, growth, and demonstrable success
• You have a portfolio with a history of impactful projects that showcases your best work and design process
• You’re a fast learner, great at adapting, and great at applying what you’ve learned to new problems
• You always start with the customer first, and then work backwards
• You have strong UX, interaction, visual design, and product thinking skills
• You can work at different altitudes; from strategic visualizations in support of long-term design goals to detailed user flows
• You’ve demonstrated an ability to work independently and autonomously
• You have experience working at an early stage startup
• You’re able to successfully collaborate remotely and transparently with distributed teams
• You’re fluent in Figma or can be quickly

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Ability to write and edit HTML, CSS, and Javascript, as well as experience using Codedsandbox or a similar tool
• Familiarity with front end frameworks like React
• Experience designing for a marketplace
• Experience growing, leading, and mentoring a design team
• Experience working at an early stage / growing technology startup

Get in Touch 

Ready to make a sizable impact and redefine the advertising production industry? Drop us a line at careers+product@catchandrelease.com.

Location: Remote

About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help own the product roadmap for the B2B side of our marketplace where you will enhance the creative process for advertisers and brands so they can create more compelling stories for their audiences using UGC.

You will be responsible for the research, creation, execution, and long term success of a significant portion of our product platform which is critical to our strategy as a company. This will include leveraging customer-driven design to build innovative workflows and tools for creating with UGC, as well as driving our integration with existing creative products so Catch&Release can meet customers where they already are.

You’ll have a tremendous impact on the company and be able to see your work get to market quickly. We value someone who is creative, self-driven, analytical, organized, can understand the big picture, and doesn’t let any details slip through the cracks.

What You’ll Do:

• Run user research, usability studies, and data-driven experiments to inform product direction for an entirely new marketplace
• Deeply understand our customers’ needs and pain points
• Work closely with the engineering and operations teams to drive the application of technologies like machine learning, computer vision, and recommendation engines to solve our business objectives
• Work closely with the design team to create intuitive user experiences that inspire millions of content creators to use Catch&Release to license their content
• Develop and execute an impact-driven product roadmap while completely owning the products you are responsible for from ideation, through development, to launch, growth and iteration
• Establish, monitor, and measure success metrics of your products
• Communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions clearly across the entire company

Who You Bring: 

• 5+ years of product management experience bringing successful end-to-end consumer web and mobile products to market. You have taken multiple products from concept through launch, growth, and demonstrable success
• You’re a fast learner, great at adapting, and great at applying what you’ve learned to new problems
• Strong UX and workflow design skills
• You always start with the customer first, and then work backwards
• You constantly drive projects and tasks to completion
• You’ve demonstrated an ability to work independently and autonomously
• You’re able to execute multiple, complex projects in parallel
• You have experience working at an early stage startup
• You’re able to successfully collaborate remotely and transparently with distributed teams

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Experience building B2B products with complex workflows
• Experience creating and growing a marketplace
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science, or other engineering degree
• Experience starting/scaling a successful technology startup from the ground up

Get in Touch 

Ready to make a sizable impact and redefine the advertising production industry? Drop us a line at careers+product@catchandrelease.com.

Level: Individual Contributor

Location: Remote

Reports to: Director of Clearances & Acquisitions

About the role:
The ​Clearance Specialist​ works collaboratively with the Director of Clearances & Acquisitions,
Project Managers, Curators and fellow Clearance team members to facilitate the acquisition and
clearance of various media for Customer projects.

The Clearance Specialist should have a minimum of 3 years of experience in the content rights
and clearance space for media or related assets. The ideal candidate should understand
content ownership, usage rights, permissions, and industry standards for content & IP licensing
in advertising. The Clearance Specialist should know how to negotiate clearances on time and
on budget

What you'll do:

• Assess and evaluate assigned unit (shot) for “True Source”
• Assess and evaluate strategies for determining Copyright and Model, Real Property and Intellectual Property (“IP”) holders
• Provide counsel to the clearance team on clearance & copyright negotiation strategies
• Expert use of the C&R platform in all Clearance and Licensing states
• Maintain up to date knowledge of industry, terms, trends, and best practices
• Finalize all Contributor agreements and releases as necessary per unit (shot)
• Lead Clearance role of Customer projects as required
• Monitor unit (shot) and Project assignments on a daily basis in the C&R platform, including updating all relevant fields, reach out logs, and status
• Communicate to Copyright, IP, Model, and Real Property holders to validate Path to Clearance and receive written approval to clear the copyright and releases
• Negotiate Fees (if applicable) for Copyright, IP, Model, and Real Property holders to validate Path to Clearance and receive written approval to clear the copyright and releases
• Collaborate with​ Business Affairs​ on delivery of final documentation for sub-licensing to the Customer
• Create recommendations for process efficiencies and Product improvements
• Support C&R external supplier relationships as required
• Develop written support and knowledge base documentation

What you bring: 

• Minimum 3 years of experience in the content rights and clearance space for media or related assets
• Understanding ownership, usage rights, permissions, and industry standards for content & IP in advertising
• Strong enthusiasm toward disrupting the media industry with technology
• Dedication to operational efficiency, and the interplay between process, policy and
  technology
• Comfort working within a fluid start-up and distributed working environment
• Ability to work independently and reliably in a fast-paced environment under tight time frames, with minimal supervision, simultaneously embracing C&R’s culture of collaboration and transparency
• Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities, demonstrating sound judgment
• Curiosity and willingness to learn and ask questions about things outside of own domain expertise
• While you may be located near a C&R hub, you are also set up to work in a home office environment to align with our “virtual-first culture”

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Working with rights and clearances is near and dear to your heart, and you can’t imagine yourself doing any other kind of work!

Get in Touch 

Ready to make a sizable impact and redefine the advertising production industry? Drop us a line at careers+clearances@catchandrelease.com.

Level: Individual Contributor, Part-time Hourly

Location: Remote

Reports to: Director of Curation

About the role:
As a Curation Specialist, you will be responsible for curating content from the worldwide web-based on our client’s creative briefs. You will become an expert on Catch&Release’s Platform, an application that tracks the curation, clearance and licensing of found and User Generated Content. You should be a curious problem solver with an eye for high-end visual aesthetics. The Curation Specialist collaborates on projects with a Curation Lead and other team members to provide content for advertising spots produced by well-known agencies and brands.

What you'll do:

• Responsibly search for video, photography and audio content via source platforms, such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Twitter
• Execute on search direction provided by the Curation Lead heading up the project
  Analyze brief and client materials via Catch&Release Platform
• Load on-brief and true-source content to Catch&Release Platform and trim shots to relevant moments
• Determine accurate contact information for content-owners
• Communicate regularly with the Curation Team via Slack throughout the work day

What you bring: 

• You’re a self-starter, accountable, and able to manage time independently
• You’re someone with great communication skills, thriving on transparency
• You work well in a collaborative, virtual team-oriented, rapid-feedback culture
• You have well-developed, modern, aesthetic sensibilities
• You’re fluent in the area of online and mobile search, at ease navigating the web and social media
• You have an entry-level proficiency in basic video editing (or are open to learning)
• You preferably have a degree from an Art School or a BA from a University
• You preferably have start-up experience and are generally tech-savvy

Requirements:

You’re set up to work in a home office environment to align with our “virtual-first” culture:

• Access to a modern personal computer that includes a webcam
• Access to fast internet connectivity
• You’re comfortable communicating using modern cloud-based team collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, etc.)
• Availability to work an 8 hour shift starting at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST.

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Some weekend availability preferred but not required

Get in Touch 

Ready to make a sizable impact and redefine the advertising production industry? Drop us a line at careers+curation@catchandrelease.com.

Level: Associate

Location: Remote locations available

Reports to: Sales / Operations

About the role:
We are seeking a Sales Operations Coordinator to support our end-to-end sales process of project bids for our customers. As part of the Catch&Release Sales/Operations team, you will be primarily responsible for supporting the Catch&Release Sales Team. This will include developing sales bids, soliciting key stakeholder approvals, and preparing and/or reviewing customer bids for the sales team for presentation to customers. The role includes coordinating with the Account Directors, Business Development Directors and Partnership Directors as well as the Resource Manager, Curation, and Clearance stakeholders. You will ensure bids are created accurately, quickly, and delivered in a timely manner to customers.

The ideal candidate will be organized, efficient, and focused. You are motivated to support and be a key stakeholder in the successful execution of our customer bids and onboarding workflow. Your success will be measured by bids being executed in an expeditious manner, and consistent monitoring and tracking of results with the goal of constant improvement and efficiency. The Sales Operations Coordinator is a critical stakeholder in the success of the Catch&Release sales pipeline.

What you'll do:

• Manage the project bid lifecycle, which includes verifying the accuracy of bids with the operational stakeholders and collaborating with the sales team for delivery of bids to customers
• Tracking project bid data and managing applicable reports in Salesforce
• Analytics on project bid data, win rates, loss rates
• Maintenance of pricing books and catalogs
• Maintenance of current bid templates and creation of new bid templates through software integrated with Salesforce
• Document retention and reporting functions related to sent and executed bids as well as non-disclosure agreements

What you bring: 

• 2+ years of experience in a similar role
  Working knowledge and use of Salesforce
  Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities
• Proposal management experience
• Demonstration of previous exposure to contracts and an understanding of basic contract language
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Relevant certifications a plus
• While you may be located near a C&R hub, you are also set up to work in a home office environment to align with our “virtual-first” culture

What will make you stand out:

• You are detailed, deliberate and determined to be accurate
• You are someone who appreciates the importance of details and maintaining compliance
• You are passionate about building and want to work for a growing company
• You are enthusiastic about a career in operations, sales or business affairs
• You are strong in math and quick to calculate
• You are an excellent communicator
• You have the ability to work independently and reliably in a fast-paced environment under tight time frames, simultaneously embracing Catch&Release’s culture of collaboration and transparency

Get in Touch 

Ready to make a sizable impact and redefine the advertising production industry? Drop us a line at careers+salesops@catchandrelease.com.