Media Solutions Specialist (5479)

RUN STUDIOS LLC • Redmond, WA

20d • $90,000 - $110,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Own the pipeline behind the pixels, be the expert who gets world-class video content from raw file to global launch without missing a frame or a deadline. RUN Studios is seeking a seasoned Media Solutions Specialist to support our client, one of the world’s most recognized interactive entertainment brands. In this role, you’ll serve as the first point of contact and go-to expert for end-to-end video asset management, processing, and global distribution—ensuring high-quality content reaches audiences worldwide on time, on spec, and at scale. You’ll collaborate closely with internal teams, content partner managers, media partners, and high-profile stakeholders to manage the entire lifecycle of media content—from acquisition, encoding, and approvals to hosting, distribution, and archival support. This position requires both strategic oversight and hands-on expertise across a wide spectrum of media solutions, engineering workflows, and event communications.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in video asset management, digital content operations, or broadcast/media production workflows.
• Proficiency with digital asset management (DAM) systems and file transfer tools such as Signiant Media Shuttle, Aspera, or similar platforms.
• Deep knowledge of video formats, codecs, transcoding, and encoding workflows.
• Experience editing and design work in Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop
• Familiarity with CDN hosting and distribution practices for large-scale content delivery.
• Strong understanding of licensing, rights management, and ratings compliance.
• Working knowledge of quality control (QC) processes, including specifications, best practices, and brand guidelines.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, time-sensitive requests across channels with minimal supervision.
• Expertise in prioritizing and triaging requests from diverse stakeholders under tight deadlines.
• Experience onboarding media partners and optimizing end-to-end video workflows.
• Ability to create and maintain accurate asset tracking and reporting for distribution and approvals.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational strength, and process discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across teams, media partners, and executives.
• Demonstrated success working in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
• Confidence serving as a first point of contact for high-profile stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Media Production, Digital Asset Management, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Experience collaborating with large brands, entertainment companies, or gaming content teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for video asset management requests.
• Facilitate immediate video asset distribution on strict timelines across multiple channels for events, retail, websites, executive presentations, and partner needs.
• Partner with media content managers & marketing vendors to receive source files and route them through proper encoding profiles.
• Ensure video files are properly formatted and encoded using internal production teams as well as their encoding hardware.
• Assess and make small editorial and/or design changes, including but not limited to editorial cutdowns, segmenting of content, as well as adding slates and end cards.
• Own the QA/QC of content trailers prior to publishing making sure they abide by ESRB/ratings guidelines AND provided social guidelines
• Manage and coordinate localization requests – subtitle, end cards, SRTs, etc.
• Manage Signiant Media Shuttle portals to send and receive media assets securely.
• Collaborate with the across teams to ensure assets are properly hosted on CDN and available to all required clients.
• Track assets from media partner delivery through to hosting, providing access links as necessary.
• Oversee video usage approvals, including licensing, rights, and ratings compliance for each requested asset.
• Provide Asset Management Support, ensuring seamless handling of media from intake to archive.
• Manage Post-Embargo Public Distribution and EMEA SharePoint EN-US Release Media Support for timely and compliant global launches
• Support workflow design and naming convention standards for efficiency and consistency.
• Deliver Media Asset Search & Archive Restore support requests, including montage video retrieval source assets requests.
• Execute asset edits, ratings, mnemonic alterations, and repair tasks to maintain compliance and quality.
• Perform format conversions across platforms and regions.
• Manage open captions, closed captions, transcription, and audio description procurement and delivery.
• Oversee comprehensive media processing, including encoding, mastering, and delivery.
• Handle Akamai hosting and content distribution network integration.
• Apply audio sweetening for broadcast-ready quality.
• Design and construct private Media Shuttle portals for all events and content teams.
• Coordinate transport membership and onboarding for all client events.
• Deploy emergency notifications and planned downtime alerts to all users.
• Service and maintain Elemental Media Encoder profiles, paths, and operations.
• Coordinate across teams to deliver integrated engineering solutions.
• Craft and deliver status reports to content owners and client leadership, including workflow improvement recommendations and issue escalation.
• Use Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Customer Voice to assist with event notifications, customer lists, and communications for upcoming events.
• QCs new videos and ensure consistency against Video Asset Specs, Best Practices, and Brand Guidelines.
• Manage video procurement requests, tracking and archiving efforts with Microsoft Production Studios.
• Maintain, update, and track all consumer-facing and expired video content through multiple video trackers, ensuring expired content is removed from public distribution as needed.
• Work with a wide variety of business partners with varying time pressures for responses and prioritize and triage asset requests.
• Provide reporting of video files received and encoded on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Onboard new media partners for video acquisition
• Optimize end-to-end video workflow.
• Perform other related duties as needed.

Benefits

• eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level