Digital Asset Librarian

Position: Digital Asset Librarian (1-year Contract)
The Role:

This position is part of the technology team supporting the global IPG Studio network and providing services to the Craft Worldwide Studio network and clients.

Possessing a strong understanding of taxonomy, metadata, and digital asset organization to ensure the platform delivers accurate and relevant results. Awareness of the fast-paced needs of studios and clients is essential; therefore, workflows must be optimized for efficient asset ingestion and retrieval within the DAM.

Collaboration with the team is required to evaluate client needs related to asset organization and searchability, ensuring that locating assets in the DAM is intuitive and seamless. Responsibilities also include tracking and applying usage rights while monitoring the full asset lifecycle to prevent misuse or premature release.

A clear understanding of the DAM’s role as a central component in the production technology stack is expected. Focus should remain on ensuring all assets within the DAM ecosystem are properly catalogued, accurately tagged, and well-organized to deliver the best possible experience for clients and partners.

Most importantly, a hands-on approach is essential—preparedness to engage deeply with the assets is a must, even if it means getting elbows-deep in the process.

The Team:

We are the Technology team at IPG, providing services to the Craft Worldwide studio network and clients.

As a Digital Asset Librarian, you will be part of a global team of Librarians, Project Managers and solution focused Program Directors who optimize the DAM experience for our agency partners and clients.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

- Organize, catalogue, tag and publish assets going into the DAM ecosystem.
- Create, manage and apply appropriate usage rights records to assets in the DAM to prevent the misuse or untimely release of assets.
- Manage and process asset fulfilment requests and workflows.
- Supporting IPG and Craft’s values
- Be part of an environment of mutual respect and partnership, strategic thinking, appropriate risk taking, open lines of communication, on-going performance feedback, professional development, and adherence to agency policy.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

- Basic knowledge of DAM, metadata and taxonomy concepts
- A profound love and passion for Technology
- Excellent collaborator working as part of a global team across multiple offices and time zones.
- Strong interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative agency environment with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbally and electronically with the ability to understand and translate back requirements and needs.
- Curious and resourceful; comfortable learning new things through exploration, self-training and teamwork