Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Prime Video is seeking a Media Workflow Manager for our growing Live Sports Production Technical Operations team. The ideal candidate will provide leadership and support for all workflows from ingest to playout. Responsibilities include the supervision of all digital media procedures for acquisition, distribution, and archive.
The Media Workflow Manager must design, vet, and document workflows alongside the Digital Media Manager well as with the Engineering department within Tech Ops. This role requires vision, ability to deal with ambiguity, and a drive to learn and be curious in a high-stakes environment that is constantly evolving.
A successful candidate will cater to the needs of customers – both internal and external - often with little oversight. You will need to be a quick learner with the ability to work with an existing architecture while taking the time to audit and potentially retool more efficient workflows.
This role will be expected to make decisions to ensure the system fits the group’s changing technical and editorial needs. Project management skills and the ability to balance competing priorities and deadlines will be critical to the success of this position.
The ideal candidate will continue to dive deep on new technology through meetings with vendors and attendance at industry conferences that showcase new best practices and technology advances.
Key job responsibilities
• Oversee day to day workflow of all assets to make sure they are efficiently delivered as required.
• Create a media delivery requirements (MDR) document for all sports in the portfolio to ensure that all needed media assets are recorded, catalogued, and named in a consistent manner.
• Work closely with production teams and vendors to manage timely delivery of assets.
• Liaise with production teams (internal and external) and vendors regularly to ensure best practices are communicated as the delivery of assets move into the QC stage.
• Ensure that all assets and documents (broadcast materials, archival elements/paperwork) are efficiently delivered as required (this includes but is not limited to confirming that assets adhere to technical specifications, follow mandated file naming conventions and pass QC.)
• Learn new platforms as in-house media asset management tools expand.
• Collaborate with Amazon technology teams to improve existing tools and operational workflows by identifying problem areas and providing smart solutions.
• Set file retention policies based on projects and workflows
A day in the life
Production and technical operations support for streaming live sports on Prime Video.
About the team
We provide technical operations support for live sports streaming on Prime Video. A successful team member requires vision, ability to deal with ambiguity, and a drive to learn and be curious in a high-stakes environment that is constantly evolving. We work at the Amazon production facility in Culver City, CA to produce compelling sports content for customers including NFL Thursday Night Football. Prime members can stream a bevy of different sports throughout the year from basketball to baseball to soccer, and boxing.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 8+ years of media management experience
• Deep knowledge of and previous experience with metadata creation, management & remediation best practices
• Knowledge of video, audio, and image encoding formats and industry best practices
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders
• Understanding of the workflow within a marketing, production, or creative department or company
• Experience with high-volume, high-velocity, large-scale file management (workflow orchestration, file-movement, permission management, etc.)
• Experience with budgeting, scheduling, and technical workflows
• Previous experience with metadata schema development & input, organizing a large number of files, high-resolution file transmissions (FTP, servers, etc.), file naming conventions, and database reporting
• Adaptability and resilience to quick changes in priorities, tools, workflow and technology
• Experience educating non-technical stakeholders and working across multiple teams and regions
Job Tags
Full time, Night shift,