Media Asset Management Specialist (New York) Job at Quantum World Technologies I

senior Media Asset Management (MAM) specialist with deep hands-on experience in Avid MAM , focused on large-scale media and metadata migration in a broadcast/news environment.

Location: New York, NY (Sub-contract)

Experience: 1015 years

Domain: Media / Broadcast / Cloud Migration

🔹 What the Person Will Actually Do

1 Avid MAM Data & Metadata Migration (Core Responsibility)

• Export media assets + metadata from Avid MAM
• Clean, normalize, and validate metadata
• Ensure metadata stays correctly linked to media files and assignments
• Prepare data so it can be ingested into new systems without loss or mismatch

👉 This requires deep functional knowledge of Avid MAM , not just general IT skills.

2 Media Migration (Cloud)

• Move large media archives from AWS S3
• Validate transfers and troubleshoot migration issues
• Ensure reliability, integrity, and scalability of migration workflows

3 Cloud & Ingestion Integration

• Support ingestion into Mimir (media processing platform)
• Proxy generation
• Archival workflows
• Archive final assets into Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
• Integrate with CBS News file transfer platforms

4 Workflow & Automation

• Design and optimize migration workflows
• Automate where possible
• Ensure workflows scale for large broadcast datasets

🔹 Required Skills (What REALLY Matters)

Must-Have

• Strong hands-on Avid MAM experience (non-negotiable)
• Media asset & metadata migration experience
• AWS S3 (media archives, cloud storage)
• Metadata handling, validation, normalization
• Experience in broadcast / media environments

Good to Have

• Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
• Mimir ingestion pipelines
• Automation and workflow optimization
• Strong troubleshooting & collaboration skills