Junior Asset Manager (Cybrarian)

OLIVER+; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 30 000 - 60 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Junior Asset Manager, where your expertise in digital asset management will help shape impactful creative work. In this remote role, you will collaborate with a global team to enhance asset storage practices and ensure effective communication with clients. With a commitment to innovation and inclusivity, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to industry-leading projects while fostering your professional growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with enterprise digital asset management platforms.
• Deep understanding of DAM, metadata, and taxonomy principles.

Responsibilities

• Assess and improve best practices for asset storage and sharing.
• Manage communication and expectations with stakeholders.
• Establish dashboards for monitoring asset usage.

Skills

Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Metadata Management

Collaboration Skills

Communication Skills

Time Management

Job description

OLIVER+ 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 a 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: Junior Asset Manager

Location: South Africa (Remote)

About the role:

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

You will be providing technology services, taking briefs from clients, and ensuring a consistent and accurate approach to fulfilling these briefs within agreed timescales. Personal responsibility for time management and completing timesheets are also important.

What you will be doing:

1. Assess & improve best practice approaches to asset storage and sharing based on client global footprint, asset types, and usage.
2. Ensure naming conventions and guidelines are followed and assessed for relevance in a fast-moving environment.
3. Liaise with internal technology teams to drive metadata tagging rules and processes.
4. Capture and document best practices for sharing assets.
5. Provide initial in-market training on DAM workflows.
6. Manage communication and expectations with stakeholders.
7. Develop, own, and distribute monthly asset highlights (usage, re-usage, engaging content).
8. Define metadata structures and guidelines, develop and maintain taxonomy.
9. Upload assets and metadata within SLA, maintain logs.
10. Establish dashboards for monitoring and reporting asset usage and insights.
11. Locate assets across DAM, catalog, and update metadata; support internal requests for asset availability and rights management.
12. Check visuals for usage restrictions, source, and costs for extensions.

What you need to excel in this role:

• Over 3 years of experience with enterprise digital asset management platforms.
• Deep understanding of DAM, metadata, and taxonomy principles.
• Effective collaboration within a globally dispersed team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Resourcefulness and eagerness to learn through exploration, self-education, and teamwork.

Our values:

Be Imaginative to push boundaries, Always learning and listening to understand, Results-focused to exceed expectations, and Pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients, and creations.

OLIVER+, part of the Brandtech Group, is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds.