Intrepid · Tue 15 Sept10:00 AM

Who is in the room

Rebecca Conlin
GLOBAL IMAGE MANAGER · THE INCUMBENT

Producer background, going on maternity leave. Her question is whether she can hand this over and switch off. Be curious about why things are the way they are, and never diagnose her library.

David Nagle
HEAD OF GLOBAL BRAND PRODUCTION · YOUR MANAGER

His team made Only Intrepid, around 1,000 assets. His question is whether this makes his team faster. He is a producer, so turn every systems answer into a production outcome.

The one reframe

The roadmap already exists. The PD says the role delivers a predefined improvement roadmap. You are there to carry it, not to rewrite it.

Arrive
9:55am. They asked for five minutes early
Way in
567 Collins. Lifts on the right, touch screen to Intrepid, Level 7. Turn left into the lobby, ask for Andrew or Charlotte
Dress
Smart casual. No formal dress code, in their words
Stage
At least two interviews. Today is not the decision

Five things to land

  1. iconik development at Quad Lock was mine
    The tagger, the review console, the governance gate and Iconik Bot, reporting to Cameron Marshad. Sole ownership of the function, not a seat on a team. Lead with this.
  2. Administered 500,000+, hand-tagged 80,000+
    Two different numbers. Never merge them. Much of the 500,000 was RAW that never needed full metadata, and deciding what not to tag was half the judgement.
  3. The roadmap is yours, and I would deliver it
    Then ask to be walked through it. This is the sentence that separates you from everyone arriving with a plan of their own.
  4. Only automate what you can measure
    The precision and recall gate, before anything wrote back unattended. Confidently wrong tags are worse than no tags.
  5. Designed for handover from week one
    A named owner, a written standard, a review date. It has to work after the contract ends.
Open the approach deck

Four questions, no more

“Could you walk me through the roadmap as it stands, and which part worries you most?”
Ask this early. It proves you read the PD, it hands them the floor, and their answer tells you what the job actually is.
“When someone needs a clip today, what do they actually do?”
For Rebecca. The real behaviour, not the documented process.
“After a campaign the size of Only Intrepid, where did the library feel the strain first?”
For David. Specific, flattering, and straight to why the role exists.
“What surprised you about working here?”
Near the end. Their own candidate pack invites it, and it gives you something real to follow up on.
If it goes technical

“Are you on iconik’s new AI Discovery rollout, or still on transcription and object detection?” Only if the room is already there.

Backlight announced AI Discovery at IBC this month: AI-suggested metadata for human review, plus plain-language search. That is what you had already built. Say you arrived at the same answer independently. Never imply you had inside knowledge of their roadmap.

Facts worth having

About you
Salary
$90,000 to $98,000. Say it plainly, then stop talking
Right to work
Permanent resident, full working rights, no sponsorship
Years
The PD has no years requirement. Do not raise it
Asana
Named in the essentials. Say what you have used, then move on
About them
Scale
118 destinations, 35 offices, 2,500+ tour leaders
Trading
Record NPS and their biggest June for bookings on record, as at July 2026
Only Intrepid
Around 1,000 assets, AU$5m+, their largest campaign
Recent
Acquired the Altaï Group, making France their fourth largest market
Climate
Left offsets and SBTi, and now counts customer flights in lifecycle emissions
Policy
Their July 2026 Responsible Marketing & PR Policy added a section on AI and digital integrity
Afterwards

Three lines to Charlotte.Day@intrepidtravel.com. One specific thing from the conversation, no pitch. Name Rebecca and David.

Open the cheat sheet The long version, if you want it