Senior Media Operations Manager

Blueprint•Los Angeles, CA

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

Blueprint is seeking a hands-on Senior Media Operations Manager to take ownership of and continuously improve the company's end-to-end media infrastructure. The role involves managing existing systems like Frame.io, LucidLink, Box, Synology, and Backblaze, ensuring their reliability and evolving them as the company grows. This position combines Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) expertise with operational leadership, overseeing daily ingest, backups, and editorial access. The manager will be responsible for ensuring no footage is lost, misplaced, or inaccessible. The company produces weekly content across various formats and requires on-site presence for shoot days (1-2 times per week) to manage ingest, card management, and chain-of-custody verification, while handling infrastructure and systems work remotely the remainder of the week.

Requirements

3+ years of experience as a DIT or Media Manager on professional video or film productions.
Hands-on experience managing and maintaining media storage systems (NAS, cloud storage, tiered archiving).
Deep understanding of video production workflows from shoot day through editorial handoff.
Experience enforcing access control and permissions for sensitive media assets.
Experience managing or coordinating across a team of camera ops, editors, and freelancers.
Track record of building operational documentation and enforcing process with a team.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with tools in our current stack: Frame.io, LucidLink, Box, Synology, Backblaze.
Experience with proxy generation and proxy-first remote editorial workflows (DaVinci Resolve, Premiere).
Experience migrating or consolidating large media libraries (30TB+).
Comfort with scripting or automation for media workflows (checksums, watch folders, ingest scripts).
Experience handling security-sensitive content with audit logging and confidentiality controls.

Responsibilities

Own and enforce day-to-day media operations across existing tool stack (Frame.io, LucidLink, Box, Synology, Backblaze), ensuring ingest, backup, and access workflows run reliably on every shoot day.
Evaluate the current system continuously and drive improvements, with openness to replacing tools that aren't working, provided changes are deliberate and loss-free.
Own end-to-end media ingest on shoot days, including chain-of-custody card offloading, checksum verification, and ensuring footage is editorial-ready by the next business day.
Build and maintain a proxy-based, browsable b-roll library with clear taxonomy, searchable metadata, and tiered access controls (including restricted tiers for sensitive pre-release content).
Enforce and monitor multi-layered backup systems with verifiable proof of integrity.
Manage project-based access permissions for editors, freelancers, and vendors with instant-revoke capability; coordinate with IT on SSO and offboarding.
Create and maintain SOPs, ingest checklists, and training materials so the system operates without tribal knowledge and is fully handoff-ready.