Media Coordinator

Media Coordinator

EMG/Gravity delivers an unparalleled range of media services and solutions to clients worldwide: 30 offices, more than 100 outside broadcast trucks and fly packs and 40 studios across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Australia, offering market-leading broadcast, technology, production, and post-production solutions across many of the world’s most-watched live events and entertainment programs and working with the world’s most renowned sports rights holders, production houses and broadcasters.

The group’s acknowledged broadcast technology and production partnerships across major sports including UEFA EUROs, Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, Champions League and Premiership football, Formula E, the Bathurst 1000, the ATP Tour, Australian Open, US Open and French Open, Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Tour Down Under, NBC Sports and College Sports across the US, the World Aquatics Championships, the Melbourne Cup, the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

JOB PURPOSE

We are looking for a Media Coordinator with an exacting attention to detail to join the Gravity Media Asset Management team stationed within Riot Games facility. Your aim will be to ensure accurate tagging of active live e-sport broadcasts for League of Legends and Valorant events (among others). You will be supporting Sponsors and Producers with clips and footage and ensuring that feeds are recorded and monitored for QC purposes. You will also retrospectively tag and add Metadata to previous broadcasts for archival, ensuring naming conventions are adhered to.

The ideal candidate will have a proven attention to detail, will share an enjoyment for Metadata inputting and archiving, and will be charged with streaming to millions of viewers around the world. You will need to be a clear and confident communicator, able to adapt quickly to on-air changes and remain calm under pressure. Executing day-to-day Media Management activities using our internal platforms at the Remote Broadcast Center, the ideal candidate will develop a comprehensive understanding of the company’s live event productions from the pre- production phase through to the end of the process.

In this role, you will be an integral part of the Asset Management team and you will report to the Service Delivery Manager at the remote broadcast center. The position is based in the greater Seattle area. The position may require travel on occasion.

The successful candidate will be assigned as on-site Gravity staff embedded at the Riot Games remote broadcast center. They will work across the live esport broadcasts focusing on championships and tournaments from around the world. The Media Coordinator will be working with the latest technology in one of the most advanced remote broadcast centers in the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Pre-Event

• Ingesting media/assets.
• Building of sources using relevant software packages.
• Performing system and user testing for new processes and workflows, logging performance and potential output to assist future productions.

Event/Live Show

• Application and logging of metadata for live events, extraction of administration/technical/structural metadata from broadcast regions.
• Consistently meet the Global Content Operations standards and metadata tagging benchmarks for timeliness and accuracy.
• Quality control and monitoring of broadcast recordings and associated files – ensuring records match the Media Management plan agreed per event. Execute checks, confirmations, and quality control on assets to ensure they adhere to technical specifications. Effectively communicate issues and flag errors as they arise.
• Content delivery for assigned content partners e.g., Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, and any other distribution partner worldwide, following publishing guidelines set by GCO.
• Help fulfil the needs of product, creative and on-air production teams to ensure all footage and materials are delivered in a timely manner.
• Work closely with EVS to share and export clips/footage as required.

Post/Live Show

• Continue metadata tagging of assets.
• Delivery of all associated media and assets as promised according to the Media Management plan.
• Prepare for next day’s records etc. as per the Media Management plan.
• Update and maintain all SOPs and contribute to new SOPs and the sharing of business/skill knowledge.
• Performing regular reporting on performance of the centers by identifying and tracking data for KPIs.

This position will have access to all live and pre-recorded assets and, as such, must be managed with great integrity. Professional and best practice behaviors in this role are essential at all times.

Health & Safety:

Ensuring that all company risk assessments are observed where applicable to your role, taking ownership of improvements and escalating concerns where necessary.

EXPERIENCE PROFILE

Essential

• 2-3 years’ experience with Media Asset Management System.

• Experience with any of the following software is highly preferred – Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Creative Cloud tools, and other NLE and broadcast applications.
• Experience with any of the following DAM/MAM platforms is preferred: Iconik, Cantemo, Front Porch Digital or Dalet, and media conversion tools like Adobe Media Encoder, Elemental Server, Telestream Vantage.
• Passionate about troubleshooting issues, exploring, and experimenting new methods.
• Working knowledge of main broadcast and digital video and audio formats.
• Experience with cloud-based & file-accelerated media upload applications and understanding of the conversion of video formats to be deliverable across a variety of networks and platforms.
• Passionate about Esports.
• Any background or experience with Live production - with strong fundamentals in video content production workflows and related production technologies.

Desirable

• Basic knowledge of XML and JSON.
• Experience working with and operating EVS for file extraction.

COMPETENCIES

• Strong computer skills, including working knowledge of Google business apps.
• Ability to travel and represent Global Content Operations onsite at broadcast events, ensuring recording and delivery of media.
• Communication – the ability to speak and produce documentation that can be clearly understood by others, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, style, and communication tools. Communicate across departments to ensure seamless integration. Effectively communicate issues and flag errors as they arise.
• Teamwork – a sense of team can make a significant difference in whether you meet or fail your objectives. Team meetings are required to share information, tips and successes are essential. Just as important is creating and maintaining the bond across the team.
• Initiative – the willingness to move things forward by taking action without needing to be asked and without due escalation.
• Resilience – the ability to cope with difficulty, negotiate obstacles, to optimize performance in the face of adversity. Take rejection as a personal challenge to succeed with the next client and turn a loss into a development opportunity.
• Organizing Work – the ability to marshal and manage resources to achieve a task. Able to manage your time efficiently, to handle multiple activities in parallel to accomplish goals. Be conscientious and take great pride in your work. How-to prioritize workload and asks.
• Inquisitive – the ability to ask appropriate questions and understand the implications.

• Analysis – the ability to gather relevant information, notice relationships between different pieces of information, reason from cause to effect and generate effective solutions to practical problems.

• Interpersonal Sensitivity – the ability to recognize clearly and accurately others’ points of view, feelings and needs and the willingness to take these into account.
• Integrity – the willingness to adhere to social, ethical, professional, and organizational standards. Be respectful and listen to others.
• Achievement Orientation – the determination to set oneself and meet high standards, exceeding norms and expectations.
• Judgement – the ability to be rational, objective and unbiased when making decisions or taking action.
• Visionary – the ability to demonstrate personal commitment to Company goals in an energetic way so as to motivate others and create an environment where the core values are realized.

PHYSICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to work evenings, weekends, and overnight.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds and push or pull up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to sit, reach outward or above the shoulder, stand, walk, handle with fingers, stand, bend, and stoop.
• Ability to operate a keyboard, view a video display terminal screen.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job and is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Gravity Media is an equal opportunities employer and aims to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of any protected characteristics