Careers

What are we?

Cureus is the medical journal and professional sharing platform for a new generation of doctors and patients. Based in San Francisco, California, Cureus is a Springer Nature journal leveraging the power of an online, crowd-sourced community platform to promote medical research and discovery with tools to better serve and highlight physicians and researchers around the world. The result? Better research, faster publication and easier access for everyone.

That’s why we created Cureus, an online medical journal with no or minimal cost to publish and free reader access - a freemium business model based on digital advertising, hosting mini journals and publishing competitions. We’re working to reduce the barriers to publication whenever possible with the goal of increasing the global literature of medical knowledge.

Who are we?

We are a tight-knit group that hires smart people and trusts them to do their best to meet goals. We check egos and entitlement at the door, but welcome intellectual honesty. We take pride in our work to drive change and challenge the status quo. We're here to solve a big problem in the publishing industry. We're passionate about creating remarkable experiences and products for our customers.

Where are we?

Cureus is based in San Francisco, CA, but the entire team is currently working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Benefits

Available Positions

Digital Marketing Assistant

Part-time - Remote

Job Description

Cureus, a San Francisco-based journal, part of Springer Nature, is seeking a part-time Digital Marketing Assistant. In this role, you’ll be integral in refining our marketing systems, ensuring data accuracy, and using cutting-edge AI tools to enhance efficiency. You’ll have a direct impact on our mission to make high-quality medical research more accessible worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Paid Advertising Management: Run, optimize, and report on all paid advertising campaigns across Google Ads and Meta, using HubSpot Enterprise for creating, tracking, and analysis.
• System and Data Optimization: Organize, audit, and maintain our HubSpot database. Identify areas for improvement in our digital marketing systems, troubleshoot issues, and ensure data accuracy.
• Campaign Assistance: Support the creation, execution, and reporting of HubSpot marketing campaigns and email workflow automations.
• AI Tool Utilization: Use AI tools intelligently to improve marketing processes, including automation, content generation, and performance analysis.
• Content Creation & Design: Design engaging visual content for social media including posts, infographics, videos, and curated user-generated content.
• Community Engagement: Assist in community management, content scheduling, and interaction across social media platforms (X, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube).
• Analytics and Reporting: Track, analyze, and report on key marketing metrics from social platforms and HubSpot. Provide insights to inform future strategies.
• Intern Management: Assist in onboarding and mentoring digital marketing interns, helping them succeed in their weekly tasks and growth.

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of experience in digital marketing, with a strong focus on paid ads (Google, Meta) and HubSpot.
• Detail-oriented with a knack for data organization and spotting inefficiencies in systems.
• Expertise in managing and optimizing Google Ads and using Google Analytics for performance tracking.
• 1-2 years of experience with HubSpot Enterprise, including campaign management, data segmentation, and reporting.
• Familiarity with Zapier for automating workflows and integrating various marketing tools.
• Strong multitasking skills and an ability to work under deadlines.
• Passion for social media metrics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making.
• An understanding of or interest in the medical/academic publishing industry is a plus.
• Proven experience in developing creative campaigns across multiple digital platforms, showcasing excellent writing and communication skills.

This is a part-time, remote position with the potential to grow into a full-time role. If you are eager to make an impact, streamline marketing processes, and help grow Cureus’ global reach, we’d love to hear from you!

For consideration, please email your resumé to: [email protected]

Strategic Sales Manager

Part-Time - Remote

Are you looking for a new part time challenge with an industry innovator? The Cureus Journal of Medical Science is recruiting a part time Strategic Sales Manager.

Job Description

The Strategic Sales Manager will work with the CMO/COO and Digital Marketing Strategist to execute a sales plan for Academic Channels, Publishing Competitions, and Digital Marketing Campaigns that will support and achieve our accelerated revenue performance projections. The Strategic Sales Manager should use past sales experience to help strengthen and improve our current sales strategy.

You will:

• Follow up on inbound sales leads
• Liaise with the CMO/COO and Digital Marketing Strategist to generate new leads
• Organize sales funnel and lead outreach using HubSpot or similar application
• Meet or exceed quarterly and annual sales goals and revenue growth targets
• Negotiate and close contracts for new sales and option add-on sales

Qualifications

You have:

• Demonstrated experience prospecting through a broad range of outreach methods including email marketing, targeted outbound calling, trade shows and other networking activities or equivalent customer service experience
• Enthusiasm and passion for pursuing and winning new business with a consultative, solution-sales approach
• Experience working within an academic, research or scientific environment is highly desired
• Exceptional communication skills including collaborating, negotiating, persuading, public speaking, and listening are required
• Experience with GoogleMeets, screen sharing, and leading remote pitch meetings
• Motivated, assertive, and goal-oriented with ability to work independently while also being a team player
• Must possess excellent time management skills
• Experience using HubSpot or other sales management software
• It’s a plus if you bring some of your own medical industry leads and connections

Benefits

• Monthly Retainer
• Generous Commission plan based on performance

Social Media Marketing Internship

Remote

Do you want to help revolutionize and democratize a segment of the medical industry? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Cureus is looking for the right person to assist with our social media efforts. The ideal individual for this role has a strong interest in learning about social media strategy and helping implement daily social media functions across all of our channels: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Reddit. A familiarity with scheduling tools such as later.com is a plus. You should be organized, diligent, and detail focused. This is an unpaid internship that will provide rewarding experience in the social media and medical worlds.

Responsibilities:

• Search for aesthetically and medically appropriate stock images via Adobe Stock Photos
• Help search for and schedule content on our social media calendar
• Help organize social media spreadsheets
• Post daily within Facebook interest groups and subreddits
• Use content to create daily Instagram stories
• Search for and connect with our users on social media platforms

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current high school or college student
• Experience using social media platforms
• Experience using google suite (sheets, docs, etc…)
• Thrive in a self-starter, fast-paced and changing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in social media and/or professional healthcare segment
• Passion for making a difference in the world through positive changes in healthcare

Minimum Commitment:

• This is a summer internship (that could turn into a longer term internship), so working through the end of August is required
• Minimum 7 hours per week commitment; ideally 15 hours per week

Job Type: Internship