Image Assistant Archivist

Gagosian; Paris; Sur place; EUR 30 000 - 40 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading commercial gallery located in France is seeking an Assistant Archivist to support the organization and maintenance of both digital and physical archives. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in image editing and multiple tools like Adobe Photoshop. Fluency in both French and English is essential. This role requires attention to detail and the ability to manage various projects efficiently.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years' experience with digital/physical archives or arts environment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of artist's copyright and image rights preferred.
• Fluent in French and English required.

Responsabilités

• Cataloguing and filing of image and document archives.
• Quality control of incoming image assets.
• Manage digital asset workflow and schedules.
• Perform high-quality image rendering for production.

Connaissances

Image editing in Adobe Photoshop CC

Knowledge of Adobe Bridge, InDesign

Confidence with Microsoft Office and DAMS

High attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Formation

Graphic design course or knowledge

Outils

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Bridge

InDesign

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

Core hours: 10.30am to 6.30pm, Tuesday to Saturday (subject to adjustment according to company requirements)

The Assistant Archivist is responsible for supporting the organisation, cataloguing, and maintenance of the gallery’s digital and physical archives, following Gagosian’s archival and imaging standards.

In particular the role involves assisting in editing, colour corrections, and the preparation of digital files and renderings for archival, exhibition, and publication purposes. You will support the distribution of high‑quality images and documents on demand to internal teams. The image archivist will report to the Senior Image Archivist and works in close coordination with the Research, Exhibitions, and Sales departments.

This is a highly demanding sales focused role in a commercial gallery environment. The ideal candidate will have the ability to multitask, work both independently and collaboratively, with superb communication and organization skills, and an eye for detail and with archival integrity and confidentiality

Duties include (but not limited to):

• Supporting the cataloguing and digital filing of image and document archives, ensuring metadata is complete and standardised across systems.
• Quality controlling incoming image assets from artist studios, freelancers, and in‑house photographers.
• Monitoring project management systems to ensure imaging projects are on schedule.
• Ingesting new assets into the gallery’s digital asset management system; assigning known metadata.
• Fulfilling internal image requests, for example: creating to‑scale digital art mock‑ups, exhibition model chips, and poster facsimiles in Photoshop; coordinating photography.
• Advancing digital workflow tools, and production procedural guides. Creation of digital PDF presentations to present exhibitions as a commercial tool (InDesign skills required).
• Submitting invoices and maintaining expense reports; ad hoc projects as assigned; managing external publication requests.
• Perform high‑quality image rendering and post‑processing for archival and production use.
• Generate PDF invitations and or presentations.
• Ensuring rendered assets meet technical and aesthetic standards.

Essential skills:

• Advanced level and proven record of image editing and colour correction in Adobe Photoshop CC at a minimum.
• Confidence and excellent working practical knowledge of Adobe Bridge, InDesign, Acrobat, Microsoft Office, DAMS and SketchUp.

Requirements

• 1–2 years’ experience working with digital or physical archives, image libraries, or in an arts‑related environment (gallery, museum, publishing, or photo agency) preferred; graphic design course and knowledge preferred.
• Ability to work on multiple projects at any given time whilst always bearing in mind the importance of prioritising and keeping to deadlines.
• Knowledge of artist’s copyright and image rights preferred.
• Willingness to work longer hours when necessary and under your own initiative in order to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work calmly and efficiently and able to recognize and prioritise what’s most important under pressure.
• Previous commercial gallery exposure highly advantageous.
• Fluent in French and English is required.