Digital Asset Specialist

Salary:
The salary range for this role is between $68,685 and $85,871

Created: July 30, 2025

We have ambitious plans, and we know the most critical step is building an incredible team that reflects the diverse fabric of our nation and embodies our values. Our team is made up of people who are equal parts dreamers and doers. We are people who care as much about how we achieve our goals as we do about the goals themselves.

Our values drive our team and are instilled in the work this Foundation does every day. We are also committed to creating an anti-racist organization in order to do our part to help combat racism and inequity in all forms, in communities across our nation and around the world. Read our full statement on anti-racism and equity here.

Purpose of Role

The Digital Asset Specialist supports organization-wide digital asset management best practices for the Obama Foundation’s Digital Asset Hub and reports to the Digital Asset Manager. You will contribute to establishing and operationalizing workflows, documentation and usage guides, ingesting assets with appropriate metadata, and supporting staff’s use and understanding of the Digital Asset Hub to enable self-service to the greatest extent possible while maintaining quality control.

You will work with our Metadata and Digital Discovery Strategist staff to ensure digital asset records conform to metadata and tagging guidelines upon ingest and through metadata remediation activities. As a member of the Product and Technology team, you will also work closely with Content Operations to ensure digital asset usage is properly tracked across our website, digital marketing, and interactive experiences at the future Obama Presidential Center.

This role is key in providing care and stewardship of our digital assets as the Foundation forges innovative digital experiences for both online audiences and in-person visitors of the Obama Presidential Center.

Core Job Responsibilities

Working closely with the Digital Asset Manager, execute general digital asset management activities and administration of the Digital Asset Hub DAMS (powered by Orange Logic’s Orange

DAM, aka Cortex)

Facilitate project based ingest of Foundation assets and external partners, including the National Archives and external agencies; provide quality control for these operations, including metadata and file integrity

Work with our Content Operations, Exhibits, and Creative teams to improve and optimize workflows/processes ensuring assets flow smoothly from creation and editing to ingest, description, publication, and display

Partner with metadata management staff to ensure assets are properly tagged, described, and archived

In partnership with the Digital Asset Manager and Digital Products Operations Manager, coordinate with and provide support to colleagues across the Foundation and outside partners to help increase use and knowledge of the DAMS, CMS, and/or integrated systems

Participate in the planning, creation, and delivery of training and onboarding sessions for new users to the DAMS

Augment, create, and manage DAMS internal and user-facing documentation

Test integrations with related systems and internal publishing workflows between the DAMS and the Foundation’s various content management instances

Facilitating DAMS use, documentation, user satisfaction, and lifecycle management of digital assets through inventory, ingest, cataloging, quality control, training, and user support

Verifying correct application of metadata for assets (e.g. alternate text) and working with our metadata team to affect corrections where needed

Understanding DAMS integrations with the CMS and other systems, and participating in refining workflows between systems

Assisting with user workflow design and training for both the CMS and DAMS, and other integrated systems

Required Qualifications

Experience supporting users and workflows of digital asset management systems handling multiple terabytes of data; past experience with Orange Logic’s Orange

DAM (aka Cortex) a plus

Demonstrated success coordinating, managing, or manipulating digital files and metadata in a digital asset management, library, museum,…