Asset Librarian

Brandtech Plus; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 360.000 - 520.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

BRANDTECH+ seeks an experienced Asset Librarian to manage digital assets across our global DAM platform. You will curate metadata, maintain taxonomy, and support cross‑functional teams in a fast‑paced, creative environment.

Remote work is available until further notice, with ongoing collaboration across multiple time zones. The role requires strong organizational skills and a proactive approach to asset governance, metadata structuring, and rights management.

Qualifikationen

• Over 5 years of experience with enterprise-level digital asset management platforms.
• Extensive understanding of DAM, metadata, and taxonomy principles.
• Strong collaboration across globally dispersed teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Aufgaben

• Define and maintain metadata structures and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain taxonomy and metadata content.
• Upload assets and metadata to DAM within SLA.
• Create dashboards to monitor asset usage and adoption.
• Assist stakeholders with asset availability and rights information.

Kenntnisse

DAM expertise

Metadata

Taxonomy

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

DAM system

Jobbeschreibung

BRANDTECH+ is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent and ambitious opportunities worldwide.

As part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role: Asset Librarian

Duration: 01 Nov 2026 to March 2027

Location: Remote working until further notice

About the role:

In a highly competitive and saturated marketplace, creating visually stunning, impactful, and effective creative work is essential. We want to create industry-leading, world-class work that’s truly beautiful, smart, and effective.

You will be providing technology services. You will take briefs from the client, and therefore the role demands a consistent and accurate approach to fulfil the brief within agreed timescales. Taking personal responsibility for time management and the completion of timesheets are all important requirements.

What you will be doing:

• Continually assess & improve best practice approach to asset storage and sharing based on client global footprint and associated nuances, asset types, and usage.
• Ensure naming conventions/guidelines are followed & assessed for relevance in a fast-moving environment.
• Liaise with internal technology team to drive meta-data tagging rules & process.
• Communication
• Capture and document general best practices for sharing.
• Provide initial in-market training on DAM ways of working.
• Manage communication and expectations with stakeholders.
• Develop, Own and distribute Monthly Asset highlights (Usage, re-usage & engaging content)
• Master Data Management
• Define meta data structure and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain taxonomy.
• Upload appropriate assets and metadata content to DAM library within agreed SLA timeframe.
• Maintain log of asset uploads.
• Reporting
• Establish a suite of dashboards to monitor and report.
• Asset adoption: mega, major, minor and adapts.
• Report key insights from data to feed into user communication and asset knowledge management.
• User assistance
• Establish a suite of dashboards to monitor and report.
• Responsible for locating assets across DAM - including cataloguing and completing key word meta-data for all new & existing images and other assets.
• Provide information to support internal requests for availability of images and limitation of usage rights.
• Asset rights management
• Check visuals for usage restrictions, source, and supply costs for any usage extensions.
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate metadata is assigned to assets, particularly around usage rights and asset expiry.

What you need to be great in this role:

• Over 5 years of experience in enterprise-level digital asset management platform utilization.
• Extensive understanding of DAM, metadata, and taxonomy principles.
• Effective collaborator within a globally dispersed team spanning various locations and time zones.
• Proficient interpersonal abilities, a constructive demeanour, and adeptness in a collaborative agency setting with multidisciplinary groups.
• Strong communication skills, encompassing verbal and written, capable of comprehending and interpreting requirements.
• Inquisitive and resourceful, comfortable with acquiring new knowledge via exploration, self-education, and team collaboration.

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Our values shape everything we do:

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

BRANDTECH+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

BRANDTECH+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.