Manager, Search & Vocabulary
Corbis
Seattle, WAThis was removed by the employer on 12/8/2014 3:19:00 PM PST
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Job Description
This is a leadership position in the Metadata department at Corbis. This department is responsible for the quality of ingested keywording records. It oversees the metadata coming from contributors, outsourcers, and media partners, across collections. The Metadata department drives keywords and quality assurance of the data associated to every image we ingest, it owns the keywording guide, can add keywords to specialized sets or images or key collections, and should remain aware of image trends, marketing needs and how clients search on the website, in order to ensure relevant, appropriate keywording records.
The person is responsible leading a team of highly skilled metadata professional and exploring new opportunities to improve the effectiveness of our search engines. This position must continuously align keywording standards with customer needs and other in-house initiatives including decisions related to the development of new metadata tools and workflows across multiple brands. This person also monitors keywording quality while ensuring fulfillment of production quotas. In addition to these duties, the person in this position is also in charge of hiring, training and leading Search Metadata Specialists.
This position is responsible for:
• Participating in developing the vision, direction and structure of the Corbis metadata and controlled vocabulary
• Recommending new keywording tools, standards, and production process; including writing business requirements, creation of documentation, and planning, training and workflow development.
• Participating in strategic discussions related to metadata and keywording and recommending solutions.
• Key decisions related to the maintenance and improvement of metadata archive
• Maintaining search relevancy across the archive and ensuring positive customer experience
• Quality assurance of keywording/metadata by internal personnel, outsourcers and contributors across entire archive
• Supervise the day to day operations of internal personnel who provide keywording, metadata cleanup, outsource solutions and working on interdepartmental projects, including goal settings, reviews, hiring, training and corrective actions as necessary.
• Oversight of metadata production workflow and adherence to cycle-time
• Oversight of outsourcer workflow: meeting targets, staying within budget, and continually improving quality of outsourced metadata.
• Limited budget responsibility for department costs, including personnel and outsource solutions
Contacts:
This position has contact with all levels of Corbis’ management and personnel, as well as contacts with vendors and customers. Close working relationship exists with other technology teams and Corbis business employees.
• Department-wide: Overall leadership and decisions regarding keywording quality, keywording standards, and acts as a point of contact for all members of the keywording team.
• Division-wide: Works closely with Editors and Media Partner stakeholders to ensure that business objectives related to keywords and metadata are achieved. The person in this position also works closely with Production Control, Sales & Research, Creative Intelligence andMarketing, creating and maintaining feedback loops to improve processes and workflows between departments.
• Company-wide: This position also acts as a point person for internal customers, solving search issues discovered on the web site by clients and members of Sales and Research. Along with ensuring the overall quality of keywording, the person in this position also works with Sales, Marketing and Technology to support keyword related strategies and marketing campaigns that target local and international clients.
Requirements:
• 3-5 years of experience, including:
• Online content search structures and organization
• Overseeing metadata workflow processes
• Managing direct reports
• Working cross-deparmentally to achieve business defined goals
• Experience keywording, indexing, or classifying imagery
• Working with to meet or exceed production quotas
• Developing metrics and measuring progress against key performance indicators
• Masters Library & Information Science degree or equivalent professional experience (preferred but not required)
• Strong understanding of customer needs and industry standards as they relate to image content.
• Understanding of search engines, IPTC, controlled vocabularies and automapping of metadata
• Familiarity with Mechanical Turk workflows
• Project management experience (preferred but not required)
• Establishing and managing vendor relationships, getting estimates, and improving vendor
• Proficiency in SQL and advanced Excel functions like pivot tables, macros, and bulk text manipulation
• Independent decision making and time management, and the ability to communicate high level updates
• Resource planning: distributing internal personnel’s time among multiple competing priorities. Hiring and managing temporary staff or freelancers to fulfill metadata projects