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Metadata Curator

Location: Culver City, CA

Onsite: Tues/Wed/Thurs

Pay: $41.13 per hour DOE

Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401K

Planet Interactive is seeking a Metadata Curator to work with our prominent technology client on a 3-month contract. This is a full-time, 40 hour per week role and will require you to work a hybrid schedule out of their Culver City office.

Metadata Curator Responsibilities:

• Ensure ingested metadata is of the highest quality for subscriptions — Including MLB and MLS
• Curate metadata for TV Originals, sporting event replays, highlights, and spotlights using an internal CMS
• Develop workflow efficiencies through writing automation scripts
• Analyze high volume data using SQL and effectively communicate findings
• Partner with AI/ML teams and Engineering to drive process and workflow efficiencies for large-scale data projects
• Partner with Project Leads to drive operational needs and process improvements
• Use project management applications to collaborate, track, and report in order to meet project deadlines
• Conduct thorough investigations on reported metadata issues to provide root cause analysis, and improvement suggestions for processes and systems
• Understand system dependencies in order to anticipate upstream and downstream impact
• Partner with data team to build data visualization dashboards for (but not limited to) content growth, trend analysis, resource and productivity tracking
• Demonstrate strong and engaging communication and presentation skills to collaborate internally and cross-functionally
• Test tools for bugs, enhancements, and new features, and provide feedback to improve efficiency and accuracy
• Identify documentation gaps and assist in its development

Metadata Curator Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in digital media, technology, or related industry
• An understanding of the TV app’s services and features
• Deep understanding of complex, large-scale media content management systems (CMS), and how metadata interplays and impacts the end-user experience
• Experience with writing automation scripts
• Proficiency in Python and SQL (web scraping, data cleaning)
• Experience partnering with AI/ML teams
• Project and/or program management experience, certifications are a plus
• Localization knowledge/background a plus
• Experience in using a ticketing system and escalation management
• Proven track record of identifying, troubleshooting, scoping and diagnosing data issues in order to resolve or escalate to appropriate cross-functional teams, along with ability to learn from history and prevent errors from recurring
• Strong written and verbal business communication skills
• Proven ability to manage time sensitive escalations
• Ability to remain flexible and nimble through priority changes and ad-hoc/new projects
• Ability to meet deadlines with in a high-pressure environment
• Comfortable with navigating ambiguity to make sound judgment calls
• Experience with using reporting and data visualization tools such as GBI or Tableau is a plus