Digital Asset Manager

Title: Digital Asset Manager

Location: Issaquah, WA

Job Description:

 

At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.

 

What's the Short Version?

The Digital Asset Manager designs, executes and manages existing and new infrastructure for assets at an enterprise level. They oversee the flow and storage of high volumes of images, owning file handling, tagging, and date expiration for print and digital assets. The Digital Asset Manager ensures assets are well-organized and resources are in place to meet targets, coordinating directly with our internal studio operations team, digital product team, production managers and various other cross-functional teams. They guide the digital asset life-cycle from creation to asset delivery through to archiving.

 

What Will You Be Doing?

• Administer the day-to-day operations and ongoing ingestion, organization and maintenance of two DAM systems (one is for customer-facing and cross-functional teams and one is for internal studio/creative use only).


• Determine, administer and oversee the full lifecycle, naming convention standards, archiving and distribution of all digital assets including images, video and brand assets and capture uniform processes in SOP's for documentation.


• Determine, administer and oversee metadata schemas and taxonomies, ensuring quality control is maintained.


• Develop automated workflows and maintain those workflows.


• Manage usage rights, ensuring assets are only available to appropriate user groups and own the communication to PM's & creative partners to notify of expiring assets in advance.


• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to build and improve upon systems and infrastructures that address internal and external digital asset needs.


• Partner with Digital Product team to handle internal user account creation, permissions and onboarding and perform routine user audits as well as ensuring tags meet necessary requirements for our design studio integration.


• Partner with the Supervisor, Imaging to manage the flow of image/video assets through all stages of the studio workflow.


• Collaborate as needed with outside Digitechs and outside clipping vendor, providing necessary feedback.


• Advise teams on data transfer and data management practices and stay up to date in technological trends that can yield workflow and efficiency improvements.


• Manage critical and time-sensitive post-production requests for internal and external teams.


• Proactively optimize storage space, system stability, backups, automation workflows, upgrades, troubleshooting and infrastructure planning.


• Anticipate and effectively mitigate problems, and consistently communicate to stakeholders/managers about updates on progress, relevant delays or issues.


• Perform other duties as assigned.


• Comply with all policies and standards


 

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience


• 1-3 years as a digital asset manager or similar for a commercial corporate team


• Professional experience in a high volume, high production environment


• Proficiency in or willingness to learn script writing - Apple Scripts and PC Scripts


• Extreme organizational skills and high acumen for attention to detail


• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Project Management software


• Understanding of image/video specs and file formats


• Working knowledge of photography/video methods, file preparation and retouching within the Mac OSX and PC environments a plus


• Ability to influence and build successful working relationships with a diverse set of partners


• Experience educating non-technical stakeholders and leading process improvements and/or operations tool implementations


• Proven ability to make and implement decisions


• Excellent writing, verbal communication and interpersonal communication skills


• Employee must be able to handle strenuous deadlines and be flexible and available to interact with employees at all level


 

 

What's Our Offer?

 

Salary Range: You`ll earn between $77,970 - $90,000 annually, depending on experience.

 

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 10% of base salary.

 

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 8 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

 

Additional Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits


• 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle


• Life insurance


• Short/long-term disability coverage


• Paid maternity/paternity leave


• Pet insurance


 

 

What Should You Expect?

 

Hybrid: SanMar's Eastpointe office is located in Issaquah, WA in the Seattle metropolitan area. Employees are required to work in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week and additional days may be added based on business needs. Our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions. Quarterly travel may be required.

 

Why Work at SanMar?

 

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.

Whether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.

SanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they're a part of something special.

Here's your chance to be a part of this story. If you're ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we're ready for you.

 

SanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer

 

Whoever you are, wherever you're from, whoever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar.

SanMar participates in E-Verify.