Digital Asset Manager

Historic New England•Haverhill, MA

About The Position

Historic New England seeks a Digital Asset Manager to play a central role in managing and improving the systems and practices that support the organization’s digital collections and content. This position oversees the governance, organization, preservation, and reuse of digital assets across the organization while working within Historic New England’s preservation philosophy and practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information science, museum studies, library science, digital humanities, or a related field, or equivalent combination of skilled work experience
Experience administering or supporting digital asset management platforms
Strong understanding of metadata standards and controlled vocabularies
Familiarity with digital preservation principles and lifecycle management
Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams
Experience working with cloud storage platforms and migrating content from legacy systems
Knowledge of copyright, licensing, and usage rights as they relate to digital assets
Experience developing documentation, training, or user support for digital systems
3–5 years of experience managing digital assets or digital asset management systems

Nice To Haves

ResourceSpace experience a plus.
Experience working in museums, archives, libraries, or other cultural heritage organizations
Experience with cultural heritage metadata standards and vocabularies (e.g., Dublin Core, LIDO, EAD, Getty vocabularies)
Experience improving search, discovery, or reuse of digital content, including using qualitative and quantitative data to understand user needs and behavior
Experience or interest in applying emerging or AI-assisted tools to support metadata creation, transcription, or content analysis
Familiarity with web content workflows and content management systems (e.g., WordPress)
Familiarity with collections management systems or other structured databases (SQL knowledge a plus)

Responsibilities

Leads the day-to-day administration and ongoing improvement of digital asset systems, including the organization’s DAM platform and related storage environments (e.g., cloud storage and shared drives).
Develops and maintains standards, governance frameworks, and workflows for managing digital assets across their lifecycle.
Leads migration of digital content from legacy file systems into sustainable, well-managed environments.
Ensures digital assets are organized, described, and preserved to support long-term stewardship of collections, properties, and institutional records, while enabling discovery and reuse across systems.
Works closely with teams across the organization—including Property Care, Preservation Services, Conservation, Visitor Experience, Marketing, Collections Services, and Development—to support effective management and reuse of digital content.
Develops and delivers training, documentation, and guidance to build internal capacity and promote consistent practices.
Provides hands-on support for teams generating large volumes of digital resources, including property documentation, conservation records, and preservation easement materials.
Establishes and maintains metadata standards and practices that support discovery, reuse, and interoperability across systems.
Improves the quality and consistency of asset description.
Develops and supports rights management practices, including copyright, licensing, and usage guidelines, to enable appropriate access and reuse of digital content across exhibitions, publications, fundraising, and digital platforms.
Plays a key role in improving access to digital materials across systems and services, helping align digital content across platforms.
Contributes to ongoing improvements in digital asset workflows and tools, including the evaluation and use of emerging or AI-assisted technologies to enhance search, metadata creation, and discovery of relationships between assets.