What are the responsibilities and job description for the Media Title Metadata Specialist position at Smart IT Frame LLC?
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Role: Media Title Metadata Specialist
Location - Burbank, CA - onsite
Fulltime
The ideal candidate has a background in technical operations in the media and entertainment industry but also experience organizing and describing content accurately and effectively You should be able to work in a high-volume deadline driven environment while working Cross functionally with operations and curation teams You will become familiar with different areas of our content production workflows such as media and JSON file ingestion quality control of assets review of metadata and artwork with your primary responsibility being title matching and tagging Strong information literacy and proficiency in editorial writing will also contribute to success in this role We invite you to help us deliver top tier entertainment experiences through title metadata management and enrichment.
Job description
Responsibilities
- Matching incoming program records to existing internal and external titles
- Researching titles on public websites as well as on internal databases
- Curating and applying original descriptive metadata for titles to best support stakeholder needs
- Escalating unidentifiable records
- Recognizing gaps or overlaps in the tagging vocabularies and flagging these for review
- Tagging content for discoverability and findability in an effective and efficient manner and according to established guidelines
- Meeting deadlines and managing priorities
- Communicating status and progress updates in a clear and timely manner
- Using available tools and resources to track progress of work within shared departmental systems
- Check artwork and metadata for technical correctness and adherence to client standards.
- Assisting with metadata remediation projects such as auditing portions of the catalog standardizing tagging based on newly normalized values correcting inaccuracies in production metadata backfilling enriched metadata from a third party source
- Identifying and describing unique titles using a title management and matching platform
- Perform technical QC on various media codecs ProRes H264 HQ MPEG and M3U8 to make sure files meet client specifications Upload download organize transfer and transcode media files as needed
- QC of HD SD media files including video playback using a media asset management system
- Accurately upload ingest and QC content and metadata
- Working with reading and editing JSON files
- Working with closed caption and subtitle files
Qualifications and Experience
- 3 years experience in a professional setting for new media audio video andor interactive consumer entertainment products preferably in a video delivery environment
- BA degree in TVFilm production Library and Information Science or related discipline preferred
- Knowledge of standard digital media formats and metadata
- Experience in nonlinear editing systems Final Cut Pro Avid Premiere
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot technical and operational problems and challenges
- Knowledge of large language models LLMs and tools prompting and responsible use of artificial intelligence AI to review descriptive metadata for inconsistencies suggest relevant keywords assist in translation and accelerate workflows
- Ability to effectively collaborate in a team setting as well as multitask organize and prioritize work independently
- Strong attention to detail
- Proficient working on both Mac and PC platforms
- Strong knowledge of administrative software and cloud storage Microsoft and Google Suite applications
- Ability to read JSON files feeds searches
- Descriptive cataloging or tagging
- Copywriting or editorial experience
- Experience with project management software and tracking workflows
Skills
Mandatory Skills : Media, metadata, content operations