Production Archivist

PragerU•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$75,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Archivist will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and scaling a digital library of assets from past, current, and future video and audio projects across the PragerU Production Team’s arsenal of content lines. This is a new position with the goal of “cleaning house”: organizing stock assets, archiving completed projects to cold storage, and other assignments as needed. This role will be highly self-managed. The ideal candidate is hyper-organized and tech-savvy, with a passion for creating detail-oriented systems in a complicated, fast-moving environment. Extreme tenacity will be required: this role will be cleaning up layered and inconsistent organization from years past, taking this project from idea to implementation to scaling.

Requirements

5-7+ years of post production experience, especially in terms of systems management. Background as an AE, DIT, or DAM could be helpful but not required
Self-sufficient, a quick thinker, and a fast learner. Technologically savvy and process-minded
Possess extreme tenacity to work on long-term, detail-driven assignments
Strong problem-solving skills, organization, and discernment
Able to juggle multiple projects simultaneously and work with a variety of team members and departments
Adhere to established processes and structures
Able to follow specific instructions while also demonstrating big-picture comprehension
Able to work with startup-type hustle and “keep things simple” without overcomplicating
A true Team Player, proactive, helpful, honest, and calm under pressure. This is a no-ego environment where no task is too small

Responsibilities

Analyze existing assets and organization to ideate a library system that fits PragerU Production’s needs for stock footage, photos, music, sound effects, and more, with foresight to potentially work cross-departmentally down the road.
Dig through past projects to source assets from stock subscriptions, and log license details accordingly. Some past projects will be easy to sort through and track down; others will be difficult.
Oversee archiving, uploading, and organizing completed project files to cold storage. Use Adobe Premiere to prep files. On occasion, move projects from cold storage and prepare for editorial to re-open.
Liaise with other departments to help build company-wide systems while advocating for Production team needs.
Work with the IT department to ensure that Production team systems align with company systems.
Assist with other projects as needed/available