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Job Summary:
AbelCine is a leading provider of products, services, and staffing solutions to the production, broadcast, media, and content creation industries. They are currently seeking a Junior Visual Designer to join their team, where the role involves producing high-quality visual content across digital, brand, presentation, and marketing initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-level MAM/DAM systems, including ingestion pipelines, metadata structures, permissions frameworks, and long-term archival strategies.
• Architect end-to-end ingest workflows for video, audio, and ancillary media—including transcoding paths, automation rules, QC checkpoints, and delivery specifications.
• Oversee and participate in daily ingest operations, ensuring accuracy, proper metadata tagging, and seamless availability of assets for production and editorial teams.
• Maintain real-time reporting dashboards on ingest metrics (e.g., total media ingested, project/source breakdown, system throughput, storage utilization, and projected capacity needs).
• Evaluate existing post-production and media-management processes, identify bottlenecks, and drive system-level improvements across ingest, editorial, review, and archive workflows.
• Collaborate with Engineering, IT, Production, and Post-Production teams to define requirements for new tools, integrations, storage solutions, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Configure and administer MAM/DAM platforms (e.g., CatDV, Dalet, IPV Curator, Adobe Experience Manager), including metadata schema design, automation tasks, user roles, and permissions.
• Implement and maintain scalable storage systems with strong backup, versioning, retention, and DRM/security compliance.
• Build and manage automated workflows and file-transfer pipelines (e.g., Telestream Vantage, Signiant, Aspera, API-based automation).
• Develop and enforce ingest standards, naming conventions, delivery specs, editorial handoff workflows, and archival consistency.
• Conduct high-level QC on incoming and outgoing media, identifying systemic issues and creating preventive solutions.
• Serve as the technical lead for on-site or remote ingest operations during live events, multi-camera shoots, or high-volume production days.
• Train internal teams—editors, producers, assistants, and external vendors—on MAM usage, ingest workflows, metadata tagging, and best practices.
• Stay up to date on industry trends in media pipelines, AI metadata extraction, cloud-based workflows, storage architectures, and remote review tools.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 1–3 years of professional design experience in an agency, in-house, production, freelance, or consulting environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating real-world, professional work experience across a variety of mediums and project types; academic or student work alone will not be sufficient.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Strong understanding of visual design principles, typography, layout, branding, and visual storytelling.
• Versatile designer who is comfortable working across digital, presentation, social media, marketing, and brand design projects.
• Excellent organizational, project management, and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Self-motivated and accountable, with the ability to work independently and take ownership of projects from concept through execution.
• Demonstrated initiative, resourcefulness, and problem-solving ability in fast-paced environments.
• Adaptable and comfortable working in an environment where priorities and business needs may evolve.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a positive attitude and team-oriented approach.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality work under deadlines and navigate real-world creative challenges.
Preferred:
• Motion graphics and animation experience is a plus.
• Exposure to art direction and participation in larger creative campaigns is highly desirable.
Company:
AbelCine is a motion pictures and Film company that offers film production equipment and technology. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Burbank, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.