Digital Asset Manager - Freelance

HKS • Dallas, TX

17h • Onsite

About The Position

This is an opportunity for a highly organized and detail-oriented Digital Asset Manager to contribute in a critical role of shaping how HKS manages and delivers its visual content across practices including healthcare, hospitality, venues, and the built environment. In this freelance position, you’ll bring structure and clarity to a growing library of images, video, and digital files—ensuring every asset is thoughtfully curated, properly formatted, and easy to discover. You’ll apply a strong visual sensibility to select the most compelling imagery and footage, while also managing the technical side of asset preparation, including file conversion to precise specifications. Through meticulous tagging, metadata management, and system organization, you’ll enable teams across the firm to quickly find and use the right content. Your work will directly support storytelling efforts across brand and comms by ensuring that the highest-quality, most relevant assets are always accessible and ready for use.

Requirements

• Prior, proven experience as a digital asset manager
• Identify a clear “best of” assets for leaders to review
• Responsible and share regular updates on progress
• Efficient and effective organizing as well as batching assets for upload
• Think through the tagging based on prior searches and proactively elevate new tags too
• Care deeply about the quality of the work and the success of the team
• Impeccable organization
• Ability to manage multiple projects and media from a variety of sources
• In depth understanding of video and image formats and when appropriate to use each
• An understanding of legal issues around visual assets and how they apply to a variety of use cases
• Develop, schedule, and conduct DAM user training and guidance
• Understanding of Adobe video and photography editing software

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Open Asset a plus

Responsibilities

• Process, upload and tag media into digital asset library
• Work with sector leads, designers and media team to refine and streamline asset workflow and cataloging
• Work with media team to ensure asset standards and categorizations are clear
• Influence taxonomy based on usage needs
• Monitor system performance and make asset management recommendations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees