Digital Asset Architect & Metadata Steward

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Troy, Chicago (MI, IL); On-site; USD 81,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k matching

Paid time off

Work Your World program

Job summary

Publicis Commerce seeks a Digital Asset Manager to oversee asset ingestion, tagging, and governance across multiple DAMs. You will manage migrations, generate asset reports, and support enterprise DAM requests, ensuring metadata consistency and efficient searchability for cross-functional teams.

You will coordinate with creatives, PMs, and IT, applying best practices in asset lifecycle management and rights handling while contributing to process documentation and end-user training.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of asset management experience in an agency environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
• Knowledge of metadata schemas, taxonomy development, file-naming conventions, database reporting, DAM governance, and rights management.
• Knowledge of image, video, and audio encoding formats and best practices.
• Experience with DAM implementation, migration, and consolidation.
• Experience with a wide range of filetypes (INDD, AI, EPS, PSD, XD, AE, PRPROJ, PDF, JPG, PNG, HTML, MP4, MOV).

Responsibilities

• Manage asset ingestion and upload content assets into DAMs; add tags and monitor automated ingestion.
• Migrate content from external sources into the DAM.
• Tag assets at key lifecycle points (upload, rights clearances, final assets).
• Generate and distribute asset reports.
• Assist with asset requests and sharing/retrieval for teams.
• Support client enterprise DAM requests and field user questions.
• Conduct content audits to identify assets for reuse.
• Govern and audit the DAM to maintain health and integrity.
• Enforce metadata consistency and folder structure for searchability.
• Assist with DAM processes and documentation.
• Collaborate with admins/IT for user support and access control.
• Help train and onboard new users; support end users.

Skills

Asset management

Adobe Creative Suite

Metadata & taxonomy

DAM governance

File-type knowledge

Education

Library/Information Science or Digital Asset Management degree

Tools

Widen

Brandfolder

Aprimo

AEM

MediaBeacon

Bynder

Job description

Publicis Commerce seeks a Digital Asset Manager to oversee asset ingestion, tagging, and governance across multiple DAMs. You will manage migrations, generate asset reports, and support enterprise DAM requests, ensuring metadata consistency and efficient searchability for cross-functional teams.

You will coordinate with creatives, PMs, and IT, applying best practices in asset lifecycle management and rights handling while contributing to process documentation and end-user training.