Backstage Affairs turns events and artists into platforms that the world's biggest brands pay to belong to. We're looking for one operator to run the day-to-day — powered by our AI ecosystem, trained in our standard, working right next to the founder.
This isn't an application form. It's a challenge. Four rounds, in English, each harder than the last. No CV required — we don't care where you've been, we care how you think. Finish it and you're on the radar. Win it and we talk.
By starting, you accept the role is full-time, based in São Paulo, and built around working closely with the founder. Compensation is discussed directly with candidates who advance.
Quick judgment calls. There are no trick questions — but there is, for each, a clearly better answer. Pick it.
Our AI does 80% of the production. The 20% that decides whether the work is great is taste. This round measures yours. Some answers are multiple choice; some ask you to write. Write like the founder will read it — because he will.
This is the actual job, compressed into one task. Take 1–3 hours. Use any AI tools you want — that's the point. We're not testing whether you can do it alone; we're testing whether you can direct the machine and have the judgment to fix what it gets wrong.
MELT is a 6-year-old electronic-music festival in the interior of São Paulo. ~12,000 attendees, a strong visual aesthetic, a loyal young crowd — but a weak commercial structure. They've just hired Backstage on a monthly fee to make them sellable to industry sponsors (think Heineken, Red Bull, Pernod).
Your task: produce a one-page platform vision for MELT — how this festival becomes something a brand would pay to belong to, not just slap a logo on. Not a full deck. The embryo: the core idea, three sponsorable territories, and the one line you'd open a sponsor meeting with.
You made it here, which means you can actually do the work. So this part finally matters. Short and honest.
That puts you in a very small group — most people drop somewhere in the middle. Your responses are in. Here's exactly what happens next, no mystery:
Even if this specific seat isn't the match, finishing this challenge puts you in our talent network — the first people we call as we grow. You earned that.
Belt-and-suspenders: (in case you want a record of what you sent).
Thanks for putting real effort in — that already says something. This particular challenge is a hard filter for one very specific seat, and for now we're going to focus elsewhere in the process.
But you're in our talent network now. Backstage Affairs is moving fast and growing — when the next seat opens, the people who showed up for this are the first ones we contact. Keep building, keep an eye on the feed.