Quality Control Specialist - Design, Contract

Critical Mass; Calgary; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency in Calgary is seeking a Freelance/Contract Quality Control Specialist who will ensure the quality of production outputs. You will monitor compliance, manage quality requirements, and assist with data organization. The ideal candidate has strong editing skills, knowledge of video software, and strong communication abilities. This role requires in-office presence five days a week.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills essential for effective collaboration.
• Experience with video and audio editing software such as Davinci Resolve & Premiere.
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite including Photoshop & After Effects.
• Understanding of video delivery specifications and exporting standards.
• Organizational skills with experience in managing video files.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production compliance and check for errors in outputs.
• Manage QC requirements and improve workflows.
• Organize, track, and ensure quality of final files.
• Assist with data ingest and file organization.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Knowledge of editing video and audio in software including Davinci Resolve & Premiere

Broad knowledge of Adobe Suite software including but not limited to Photoshop & After Effects

Understanding of video delivery specs and exporting standards

Strong organizational skills with experience in video file sharing

Data ingest and management experience

Strong sense of catalog organization and file naming convention to manage file storage

Keen eye for design principles and strong attention to detail

Job description

As a Freelance/Contract Quality Control Specialist, you are an excellent communicator who is able to work closely with Producers, Design Supervisors, Production Designers, Studio Artists and Technical artists to ensure assets are successfully delivered without errors. Mitigating risks and managing QC can be challenging, but your organizational and interpersonal skills are up to the test. Through working closely with our content creation studios, Wander and ArtBot, you have a holistic view of all the projects to ensure excellent quality control. As a self-starter, you work with the team from a project’s creation, to its archival. You apply your Quality Control skills to production outputs large and small including video executions, mobile applications HTML banners and digital products. You are excited by the fast pace of advertising and work to support the team.

You will

• Monitor production compliance to provided standards and guidelines.
• Check for copy alignment, spelling, technical specification alignment, and technical errors on any output produced.
• Manage QC requirements and risk analysis by enforcing and improving the workflow.
• Organize, track, and ensure quality of final files before delivery to trafficking team or clients
• Execute planning, scoping and estimation of QC efforts.
• Assist with data ingest and file organization management on our Wander server alongside the Asset Management team

You have

• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of editing video and audio in software including Davinci Resolve & Premiere
• Broad knowledge of Adobe Suite software including but not limited to Photoshop & After Effects
• Understanding of video delivery specs and exporting standards
• Strong organizational skills with experience in video file sharing
• Data ingest and management experience.
• Strong sense of catalog organization and file naming convention to manage file storage
• Keen eye for design principles and strong attention to detail.

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office 5 days a week. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

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