Media Operations Specialist – OTT & Asset Prep

SRI Resources; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

SRI Resources has an immediate contract opportunity for a Media Operator in Glendale, CA, supporting a major corporation on a 6+ month assignment. The role focuses on data I/O, media ingest, asset conformance, editorial updates, and asset validation across OTT and streaming workflows.

The ideal candidate understands both horizontal and vertical formats, timed text localization, and has hands-on experience with automation-driven media operations, encoding, and trafficking.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in media asset preparation, operations or editorial work.
• Prior use of cloud based asset management software such as Aspera On Cloud, MAMs and Data I/O.
• Understanding of streaming specifications and workflow from curation to delivery.
• Ability to transcode and encode video and audio files using tools such as Premiere Pro.
• Solid Understanding of digital file formats and creation of ProRes files, and Proxy files.
• Solid Understanding of Timed Text files both English SDH and Foreign language subtitles.

Responsibilities

• Perform the processing and management of media assets in a results-driven environment.
• Traffic media in systems such as google, air table or other internal tooling.
• Media Prep for OTT, Streaming and necessary downstream destinations.
• Make editorial updates to final files for compliance with network specs.
• Perform audio loudness measurements to ensure correct specs.
• Review and remediate timed text files for final distribution.
• Receive and Send media via Aspera or other cloud-based delivery mechanisms.
• Help to troubleshoot issues with files and recommend fixes.
• Perform metadata validation and entry including segment timings to create broadcast automation database records.
• Collaborate with team members as part of a high functioning team that is able to effectively and efficiently execute assignments.
• Assist manager in developing, maintaining and creating daily, weekly executive reporting

Skills

Media asset prep

Operations experience

Editing basics

Transcoding/encoding

Asset validation

Cloud workflows

Automation mindset

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Aspera On Cloud

MAMs

Data I/O

Premiere Pro

Colorfront Transkoder

Media Info

Dolby Vision Metafier

Transkoder

AI video recognition software

Air Table

Job description

SRI Resources has an immediate contract opportunity for a Media Operator in Glendale, CA, supporting a major corporation on a 6+ month assignment. The role focuses on data I/O, media ingest, asset conformance, editorial updates, and asset validation across OTT and streaming workflows.

The ideal candidate understands both horizontal and vertical formats, timed text localization, and has hands-on experience with automation-driven media operations, encoding, and trafficking.