Reference # : 10-00559 Title : Digital Catalogue Manager
Location : New York, NY
Experience Level : Start Date : 10/28/2010 Assignment Detail
Description: Digital Asset Librarian
The Asset Management Services department at Ogilvy is recruiting an experienced Digital Asset Librarian. The Librarian's duties include setting up asset catalogs and systems, organizing large volumes of rapidly changing images, creating and enforcing naming taxonomies and metadata schema, tagging files with relevant and accurate metadata, insuring dependable and rapid worldwide distribution to hundreds of users 24 hours a day/7 days a week, creating documentation, defining image workflow, and training users.
Key Capabilities
• Experience in setting up and maintaining enterprise-scale asset management systems
• Proven follow-through and ability to meet deadlines while juggling many projects and priorities
• Diplomacy and ability to negotiate effectively with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication—both one-to-one and in small groups
• Flexibility in accommodating rapid change
• Resourcefulness and ingenuity
• Ability to organize information at a high level
• Calm and productive under pressure
• Skilled at working with creative teams
• In-depth knowledge of media usage rights issues
• Accuracy, excellent memory and eye for detail
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite
• Demonstrated ability to learn new skills quickly
Responsibilities
• Organize asset catalog structures
• Create effective metadata schema
• Enter and validate metadata
• Generate naming taxonomies and glossaries
• Create documentation of workflow and asset system
• Train users
• Verify version control of files
• Track rights usage and expiration
• Provide notification of system status and file availability
• Assist in development of asset management system with Project Manager
and internal IT team
• Collaborate intensively with dozens of people in diverse roles, including Art Buying, Imaging, Traffic, Producers, Creative and Production staff
• Filter, organize and migrate pre-launch assets to long-term asset catalogs
• Interact with vendors and agency partners to improve systems, train users, and transfer image assets and reference material
See: http://careers.ogilvy.com/private/myjobs/openjob_outside.jsp?a=3jdo4jjibi1r49wrf9pgq9n9b2pvqyz45f4wjbysqnrh3rk24g6avteuh5ueleox0&from=COMP&id=2406137&SearchString=&StatesString=
