Photo Archivist
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$42.35 to $47.06/hr
Start Date:
06.03.2025
Summary
Our team collaborates closely with creatives across various services to craft a wide range of exciting and unparalleled creative content for our products, ranging from photography/motion of subjects including musicians and live sports events to art buying and illustration.
We are seeking a Photo Archivist with extensive knowledge around DAM systems, photography ingestion, creative file management, and documentation creation to join our team. In this role you’ll work closely with the photography team to maintain and connect creatives to our vast image and video archive, and to create infrastructure that supports the production of media content that is experienced on a global scale.
As an archivist, you have a deep interest in organizational principles and a keen ability to understand accessibility needs in a multi-disciplinary and cross functional organization. You have an excellent understanding of artistic standards including color spaces and the bespoke needs of visual file management, and are excited at the prospect of anticipating the archiving needs of complex and complicated projects.
Qualifications
- Prior Digital Asset Management (DAM) experience (uploading, organizing, data entry, etc.)
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and tools such as Wrike, Airtable, Asana, WorkFront or similar platforms.
- Experience with Capture One’s tethering, image adjustments, and metadata presets
- Quality Control experience specific to photography assets
- Familiarity with testing new software features and reporting and documentation of bugs to stakeholders/engineering efforts
- Advanced guide/documentation creation for teaching purposes
- Deep knowledge of metadata/structural hierarchies
- Asset workflow/pipeline planning and future proofing
- Ability to work rapidly with short deadlines
- Clear and concise communication skills
- A sense of ownership to complete projects without needing direct supervision
- Excellent organizational skills
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $42.35 to $47.06 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
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Client Description
Our client, a leader in consumer electronics, is one of the greatest, most innovative, world-changing companies ever created! More like a cluster of start-ups versus a large company, they are single-handedly credited with creating some of the most impactful products of this generation.
Working alongside some of the brightest and most talented people, the work you do here will add up to something big that could not be done anywhere else. There is no doubt that your best work will be brought out achieving some hefty goals at a heroic pace.