Senior Media Operations Manager

Blueprint•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Blueprint is looking for a hands-on Senior Media Operations Manager to own and continuously improve Blueprint's end-to-end media infrastructure. We have systems in place today — Frame.io, LucidLink, Box, Synology, Backblaze — but they need a strong, accountable owner to enforce them, tighten the gaps, and evolve them as we grow. This role combines DIT expertise with operational leadership: you'll manage day-to-day ingest, backups, and editorial access while also identifying and driving improvements to the stack over time. We shoot weekly across short-form, long-form, and documentary formats — you'll be on-site for those shoot days (1–2x per week) to handle on-set ingest, card management, and chain-of-custody verification, and own the infrastructure and systems work remotely the rest of the week. This person is the single owner ensuring no footage is ever lost, misplaced, or inaccessible.

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 — this role sets the standard others follow
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 our 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 — we're open to replacing tools that aren't working, but changes must be 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 — no more "we think it backed up"
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