Digital Asset Management Specialist

The Digital Asset Management Consortium, Inc.; Michigan; On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Slate in Michigan is seeking a Digital Asset Management Specialist to own and evolve our brand’s asset ecosystem, including photography, video, and digital design files. You’ll steward the DAM platform, ensuring assets are organized, tagged, discoverable, and distributed across teams, agencies, and partners.

You will drive system evolution via PIM integration, AI tagging, and automated workflows, while maintaining version history and access controls for secure, scalable content management.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in digital asset management, media operations, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience administering a DAM platform (Brandfolder, Bynder, Widen, or Adobe AEM).
• Strong understanding of metadata structures, taxonomy design at scale.
• Familiarity with photo/video production formats and digital design assets.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the DAM platform, including folder architecture, taxonomy, metadata schemas, and user permissions.
• Own asset ingestion workflows from shoots and design teams.
• Maintain version history and check-in/check-out discipline for traceability.
• Audit the library with duplicate detection and resolve redundant uploads.
• Manage licensing, usage rights, releases, and renewals as needed.
• Develop and enforce naming conventions and tagging standards.
• Lead DAM-PIM integration to sync product data and imagery.
• Evaluate facial/people tagging for searchability and rights enforcement.
• Configure multi-language asset metadata and bulk translations.
• Configure workflows and approval chains; train teams on best practices.
• Generate reporting on usage, health, tagging, and adoption.
• Collaborate with IT/legal on data governance and retention.

Skills

DAM administration

Metadata design

PIM integration

AI tagging

Workflow automation

Adobe Creative Cloud

CI Hub integration

Collaboration tools

Tools

Brandfolder/Bynder

Adobe AEM

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Smartsheet/Jira/Asana/Monday

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a Digital Asset Management Specialist to own and evolve our brand's asset ecosystem spanning photography, video, motion graphics, documents and print/digital design files. You'll be the steward of our DAM platform, ensuring every asset is organized, tagged, discoverable, and distributed correctly across internal teams, agencies, and external partners, while driving the system's evolution through PIM integration, AI-powered tagging, and automated workflows.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

Asset Operations & Governance

• Administer and maintain the DAM platform, including folder architecture, taxonomy, metadata schemas, custom fields, and user permissions (including SSO/SAML configuration)
• Own asset ingestion workflows for photo, video, motion, documents, print collateral, and digital design files from in-house shoots, hired shooters, and design teams, and other company stakeholders
• Maintain version history and check-in/check-out discipline so in-progress assets stay traceable and current assets stay authoritative
• Audit the library regularly using built-in duplicate detection, flagging and resolving redundant uploads
• Manage asset licensing, usage rights, model/talent releases, and expiration dates, flagging renewals or takedowns as needed

Metadata, Taxonomy & AI Tagging

• Develop and enforce naming conventions, tagging standards, and custom-field taxonomy that scale across departments (marketing, commercial, PR, experiential, accessories, digital and more)
• Configure and manage bulk metadata conversions to auto-generate tags and custom fields from embedded file metadata, reducing manual tagging workload
• Lead integration between the DAM and PIM (Product Information Management) systems, keeping product data, specs, and approved imagery synced across channels
• Evaluate and manage facial/people recognition tagging to streamline talent tracking, usage rights enforcement, and searchability of people-based content
• Manage multi-language asset details and bulk translations, asset names, descriptions, tags, and custom fields, to support content across regions/markets

Print & Digital Design Workflows

• Manage print and digital templating through the DAMs template Editor, PrintUI, and InDesign ingest, enabling non-designers to self-generate on-brand materials from locked templates
• Maintain the CI Hub integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, enabling bi-directional asset sync for designers working directly in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• Support print production files (print-ready PDFs, die lines, CMYK profiles) alongside standard photo/video formats

Workflow & Collaboration

• Configure custom workflows and approval chains within the DAM, and connect them to our project management tracker so asset approval status stays visible end-to-end
• Leverage proofing for review/approval cycles on creative deliverables
• Train internal teams, agency partners, and new hires on DAM best practices, search/retrieval, and tagging standards
• Generate reporting on asset usage, library health, tagging accuracy, and adoption metrics for leadership
• Collaborate with IT/legal on data governance, access security, and retention policies

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• 3-5 years of experience in digital asset management, media operations, or a related field
• Hands‑on experience administering a DAM platform: Brandfolder experience strongly preferred; Bynder, Widen, or Adobe AEM also considered
• Strong understanding of metadata structures, custom fields, and taxonomy design at scale, including bulk/CSV-based metadata management
• Familiarity with photo/video production formats (RAW, ProRes, PSD, layered files) as well as print production files and digital design assets (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
• Experience with PIM platforms (Akeneo, Salsify, inRiver, Plytix, or similar) and connecting product data to asset libraries
• Exposure to AI-driven/automated tagging and metadata generation, and how machine-generated tags integrate with human-curated taxonomy
• Familiarity with facial recognition/people‑tagging in a DAM/MAM context, with sensitivity to the privacy and compliance considerations involved
• Comfort managing multi‑language asset metadata and bulk translation workflows
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud integrations (CI Hub or similar) a strong plus
• Experience working within a production tracker or project management tool (Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Monday)

Nice to Have

• Experience building or scaling a DAM system from the ground up
• Background in media production or packaging design workflows
• Experience with computer vision/AI asset-recognition platforms (Imagga, Clarifai, Google Vision, Veritone)
• Familiarity with 360° product viewer setups
• Automotive, commercial photography, or brand/marketing environment experience

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Employer: Slate

Location: Michigan, USA

Posted Date: 15/10/2026

Expiry Date: 15/02/2027

Type: Full-Time

Categories: DAM / MAM / BAM Manager / User, Metadata Management / Taxonomy / Ontology, PIM / Product Manager / Digital Shelf

Ref: DN-JB-3096

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