Media Asset Manager

Media Asset Manager

• REMOTE
• CHESS

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 650+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 125M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

About You

You have an unwavering dedication to maintaining order and a keen interest in organizational systems. You are an expert in navigating complex technical environments, and enjoy it! You have the ability to translate human requirements into effective organizational systems and propose suitable technical solutions for their implementation. You are a proactive communicator and take extra measures to ensure clarity. You demonstrate a strong commitment to progress and strive not only to uphold systems but also to construct and enhance them.

What You’ll Do

You will play a critical role in managing our media operations as we are in the process of moving our media operations to the cloud and scaling up our events, editing support, and distribution. You will work closely with our internal teams to ensure that all media plans are aligned with our goals and objectives.

• Process media assets throughout milestones, including ingestion and archiving
• Develop, execute, and uphold organizational strategies and policies for data lifecycle
• Proactively oversee utilization of production storage
• Keep asset-tracking databases current and ensure their maintenance
• Supervise the acquisition, arrangement, and coordination of digital and physical media, including storage off-site
• Handle the creation and delivery of required materials for licensors and partners
• Collaborate with IT to monitor the well-being of asset management systems
• Stay informed about the latest industry trends in media asset management
• Manage the Iconik software, ensuring that all media is properly indexed in the cloud with accurate metadata for easy retrieval and editing.
• Create protocols to ensure that all media is properly indexed and that metadata is accurate and up to date.

Preferred Skills

• Experience deploying and maintaining digital asset management systems
• Experience using Filemaker
• Ingesting tar/LTFS archives from LTO tape
• Operation of data-tape libraries and related archive management software
• Operation of digital and analog VTRs
• Media transcoding
• IT troubleshooting
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)
• [This is open to applicants who can legally work in the US]