Media Management Specialist (Project Based)

BuzzFeed Studios is looking for a dedicated Media Operations Specialist to join our Los Angeles Post Production team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing and maintaining all storage pools and workflows relating to asset migration. Candidates may be asked to troubleshoot common issues and be comfortable with scripting for automations in a MAM ecosystem.

Rate: $350-400/day based on experience

Location: Los Angeles with ability to work in-office.

Responsibilities:

Domestic & Global oversight of media

Maintain day-to-day care of assets in shared storage environments

Manage and maintain ecosystems for Iconik, Qumulo, and FrameIO

Act as primary archivist for all completed projects

Retrieve archived assets for reuse or redistribution

Track and maintain all production drives

Identify, inform, and forecast physical purchases

Daily management of users on shared storage

Coordinate with international offices to transfer and backup data

Troubleshoot problems reported by users

Prep production drives & DIT kits for productions

Document new and updated workflows

Qualifications:

2+ year of experience as a media manager, archive library coordinator, or similar

Excellent communication & time management

Attention to detail

Excellent knowledge of Post workflows, including local storage devices, DIT hardware, and modern cabling standards

A Fundamental understanding of video standards, frame rates, aspect ratio & data bitrates

Experience working with Iconik

Experience with AWS buckets and storage tiers

Experience with SAN & NAS environments and permissioning preferred

Experience with bash and scripting automation preferred

Experience with performing API Calls preferred

Experience with SMB and network protocols preferred

Intermediate Premiere knowledge preferred

Intermediate Airtable knowledge preferred

Experience with shared remote and proxy-based workflows and remote storage preferred

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