Digital Media Technician

Full Time Job
About the Role

The Digital Media Technician is primarily responsible for
validating assets according to service specifications and the
distribution (delivery) of assets to broadcasters and digital
service providers. Each Digital Media Technician should be a
quick learner, highly organized, a motivated self-starter and
possess a discriminating eye for detail.

Responsibilities:

* Quickly comprehend technical specifications and apply
that understanding on a daily basis
* Monitor and parse a high volume and time sensitive order
queue
* Ensure source assets are restored and conformed as
required
* Validate metadata, image, video, audio and timed text
media assets against a variety of client and internal
specifications
* Package source assets and metadata as per servicing
profile specifications
* Communicate and document internal rejections to the
appropriate teams
* Verify integrity of deliverables and delivery package
prior to servicing
* Maintain servicing action logs as needed
* Succinctly and efficiently handoff projects with next-up
shifts
* Operate with a high sense of urgency and discretion
* Other tasks as needed to meet project deadlines

- - - Required Skills:
• Understanding of various media formats such as video, audio,
image and timed text.
• Understanding of industry format standards such as PAL, NTSC,
timecode, framerate, codec, audio settings/configurations,
metadata (title and technical – html, xml)
• Understand media encoding, transcoding, and file transfer
protocols
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be
able to communicate and collaborate with all levels of
personnel
• Keen data entry and proofreading skills
• Be open to work flexible hours to meet occasional tight
deadlines
• Highly organized and be able to work with minimal supervision,
escalating when needed
• Proficient with both Mac and PC
• Be enthusiastic, willing to learn, and knowledge share with
the team
• Thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment (we all do
our part!)
• Comfortable with change and able to adapt as workflow flexes
to the meet the needs of our
clients
• Able to work on more than one project at a time (aka
multi-task)

* UHD HDR – 4K (Dolby Vision / HDR10)
• Media Formats and
Codecs
• Broadcast Deliverable Specifications
• Frame Rate / Standards Conversions
• Captions, Subtitles, Forced Narrative, SDH
• Audio Normalization
Guidelines
• Media Transfer Mechanisms (Aspera, Signiant, Amazon S3, FTP,
etc)
• Media Content Protection • SOP Security Protocol

Education:
- High School Diploma or GED required.

Experience:
• College degree or equivalent experience in the field
• General Editing/Studio/TV/Film/Pre or Post production
experience

*This position is based in Stamford, CT 06902 and is an
in-office-based position.

**This position is a 10am-6:30pm shift, Monday-Friday, overtime
may be requested as needed.

*** NO PHONE CALLS, OUTSIDE AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS