Senior Asset Manager (Cybrarian)
OLIVER+
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
OLIVER+ is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent and ambitious opportunities worldwide.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Senior Digital Asset Manager
Location: South Africa (Remote)
About the role:
In a highly competitive and saturated marketplace creating visually stunning, impactful and effective creative work is essential. We want to create industry-leading, world class work that's truly beautiful, smart, and effective.
You will be providing technology services. You will take briefs from the client and therefore the role demands a consistent and accurate approach fulfil the brief within agreed timescales. Taking personal responsibility for time management and the completion of timesheets are all important requirements.
Role mission:
Working in partnership with our client, responsible for leading long-term deployment strategy, implementation and workflow of the Digital Asset Management system.
What you will be doing:
What you need to be great in this role:
The DAM professionals who communicate with management need to have an understanding of high-level business needs and how DAM can meet those needs. Why?
Because it is important to quantify:
Digital Platform Specialist
Personality; someone who has a willingness to:
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
Be always learning and listening to understand
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations
OLIVER+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.'
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Senior Digital Asset Manager
Location: South Africa (Remote)
About the role:
In a highly competitive and saturated marketplace creating visually stunning, impactful and effective creative work is essential. We want to create industry-leading, world class work that's truly beautiful, smart, and effective.
You will be providing technology services. You will take briefs from the client and therefore the role demands a consistent and accurate approach fulfil the brief within agreed timescales. Taking personal responsibility for time management and the completion of timesheets are all important requirements.
Role mission:
Working in partnership with our client, responsible for leading long-term deployment strategy, implementation and workflow of the Digital Asset Management system.
What you will be doing:
- Act as primary liaison between client and various studios with regard to naming conventions, campaigns storage, assets, new photography and archiving
- Develop and maintain a metadata entry protocol. Work with various stakeholders across the enterprise to define metadata and taxonomy guidelines. Actively promote data consistency to support common standards and analytic
- Responsible for assigning appropriate metadata for assets to ensure accurate usage rights
- Manages the Digital Asset system and facilitate the uploading of assets as well as maintaining and upgrading the system
- Registers internal and external users to the Digital Asset Management system based on permissions
- Facilitates retrieval of previously catalogued images/shoots
- Processes raw images using the appropriate software
- Archive assets as necessary
- Generates asset download reports
- Maintains accurate procedures and records for the system
- Keeps informed of latest Digital Asset Management technology trends and innovations
- Other duties as identified and assigned by
- Establish periodic data verification review processes to ensure data accuracy and to support easy and consistent search and delivery of assets
What you need to be great in this role:
The DAM professionals who communicate with management need to have an understanding of high-level business needs and how DAM can meet those needs. Why?
Because it is important to quantify:
- Cost savings
- Time savings
- Reductions in risk (with knowledge of rights)
- Administrator (DBA) Archivist
- With Digital, not just analogue (print) experience
- Analyst
- Consultant
- Either an internal, permanent staff for ongoing consultation OR an external (temporary), outside perspective looking in with a fresh viewpoint
- Advisor, coach and/or functional role
- Support DAM system and users
- An industry expert in the field
- Organize and upload assets
- Metatag assets
Digital Platform Specialist
Personality; someone who has a willingness to:
- Learn about DAM
- Worked on metadata and taxonomy
- Upload assets
- Librarian
- Worked with Digital, not just analog (print/physical cataloging) experience
- Metatagger (aka Metator, Cyberian)
- Project Manager
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
Be always learning and listening to understand
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations
OLIVER+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.'
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