Setting up an online course or digital storefront on Podia and actually enjoying the process of untangling its settings is a fairly specific kind of satisfaction, and this role was built for people who already know that feeling.
A growing company needs someone to live inside their Podia workspace full-time, keeping the digital products side of the business running smoothly rather than held together with workarounds. The role sits close to marketing and operations, which means you will rarely be working in isolation.
Digital products businesses tend to grow in bursts, a new course here, a membership tier there, and the workspace often shows the scars of that growth. Part of what makes this role satisfying is going back through those layers and making the structure match how the business actually works today, not how it worked a year ago.
You will also be the person a founder or product lead comes to when they have an idea for a new offer and want to know whether the current setup can actually support it, or whether something needs to be rebuilt first. Being able to answer that quickly, instead of promising to look into it and circling back days later, matters more than people expect. It is one of the small things that makes a specialist feel like a genuine partner rather than a ticket queue.
You will also periodically audit older parts of the workspace even when nothing is visibly broken, since problems in a system like this tend to surface quietly, well after the change that caused them, rather than announcing themselves right away.
One week might mean rebuilding a course delivery sequence that was quietly sending the wrong welcome email to new students. The next might mean training a marketing hire on how tagging works so campaigns stop overlapping with each other and confusing subscribers.
You will typically report into an operations or marketing lead, but your actual day involves regular back-and-forth with whoever owns a given product launch. A course creator preparing a new cohort launch, for instance, needs their enrollment flow, drip emails, and payment plan options all working together before the doors open, and you are the one who makes sure none of those pieces silently breaks under load.
Support also leans on you when a customer reports an issue that turns out to be a configuration problem rather than a genuine bug. Being able to quickly tell the difference, and fix the configuration instead of filing a ticket that goes nowhere, saves everyone a lot of back and forth over the course of a normal month.
Most of these skills get built by actually breaking things in a live workspace and learning from it, not from a course. If your background includes a couple of platforms rather than just Podia specifically, that range of exposure tends to help more than it hurts.
You will want a bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or something adjacent, plus around two years of hands-on experience actually configuring and managing a platform like Podia. Certification through the platform is a nice bonus if you have it, though plenty of strong candidates do not.
Problem-solving matters more than any single credential. If something breaks and the manual does not cover it, you should be the kind of person who digs in rather than escalating right away and waiting for someone else to figure it out.
A degree in an unrelated field is not automatically disqualifying if the hands-on platform experience is clearly there. What tends to matter more in practice is a portfolio of real configuration work you can point to and explain, rather than the exact wording on a transcript.
Specialists who spend a couple of years deep in one platform often end up owning a wider set of business tools, or moving into a broader operations role where Podia is just one piece of a larger toolkit. The path is not fixed, and it tends to follow whatever the business actually needs as it scales.
A few specialists move toward a more strategic role advising on which tools a growing catalog of digital products should actually run on, rather than just maintaining whatever is already in place. That shift usually happens once you have a track record of catching problems before they cost the business real revenue.
None of this happens on a fixed timeline. Some specialists move into a broader role within a year, and others are happy staying deep in the platform work indefinitely, which is a perfectly reasonable choice too if that is the kind of day-to-day you actually enjoy.
This is a full-time role paying $81,500 a year, with a full benefits package attached.
Beyond the standard package, teams hiring through Remoteroles for platform specialist roles tend to offer real flexibility around working hours, since the work itself does not depend on a specific time zone to get done properly.
Apply with your resume and, if you have one handy, an example of a Podia setup you have built or improved. A screen recording works just as well as a written summary. From there, expect a short conversation about a real workflow problem before any final decision gets made, plus a reference check.