PEP, Ingest Associate (Freelance)

Versant•Englewood Cliffs, NJ

5d•Onsite

About The Position

VERSANT is seeking a PEP Ingest Associate to support media ingest, recording, routing, quality control, file conversion, and troubleshooting across a fast-paced news, entertainment, sports and digital production environment. This freelance role is ideal for someone with strong technical skills, sound judgment, and the ability to support producers, assignment desks, shows, and production partners in a deadline-driven live production setting. The Ingest Associate helps ensure that critical media is captured, organized, verified, and delivered accurately so teams can move quickly and confidently across daily coverage, planned programming, and breaking news. This is an onsite role based in New Jersey. Candidates must be able to work a flexible schedule, including overnight, weekends, and holidays as business needs require. This role is overtime-eligible.

Requirements

3+ years of experience working in a large media market or comparable production environment.
Strong understanding of PC and Mac platforms, digital media workflows, transcoding, file conversion, and digital file delivery.
Experience working in a production or newsroom environment with the ability to stay calm and focused under tight deadlines.
Strong technical aptitude, troubleshooting skills, and comfort learning new tools, systems, formats, and codecs.
Ability to build effective working relationships with producers, assignment desk teams, shows, and technical partners.
A flexible schedule, including availability overnights, weekends, holidays, and breaking news coverage as needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience setting audio/video levels to spec
Verifying remote signal quality prior to air
Working with non-linear editing and scheduling tools

Responsibilities

Schedule and manage recordings for newsgathering coverage, entertainment specials and live sports production in a quick-turn environment.
Ingest, convert, transfer, migrate, and back up a variety of digital media files across platforms, devices, and file delivery methods.
Provide quality control for incoming footage, verify successful ingest, and ensure media is properly organized and ready for production use.
Partner with producers, shows, assignment desk teams, and technical partners to support Media Ingest requests and troubleshoot file-based ingest issues.
Import and manage files from sources such as websites, FTP sites, Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, Woody Social, and other digital gathering tools.
Create screening exports and deliverables for producers and shows through online delivery methods or physical media as needed.