F/T - Metadata Strategist, Shutterstock (NY)

Metadata Strategist, Shutterstock – NY

 

Shutterstock is looking for a metadata strategist to champion and lead metadata strategy, effectiveness, and standards in support of the findability of digital assets. We’re looking for a specialist who understands how to use language to optimize the value of digital media.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Drive revenue optimization initiatives through the discovery of key-insights into descriptive metadata eco-system dynamics.
• Define and lead the implementation of metadata strategies to scale digital assets discovery and sales conversion.
• Be the thought leader on introducing and exploring concepts around keyword methodologies, disambiguation techniques, ontologies/taxonomies, containment hierarchies, etc.
• Own metrics related to metadata including quantity and type of descriptive attributes per asset, keyword relevancy, effectiveness, conversions and ROI.
• Analyze performance of metadata application and usage, including keyword trends around seasonality, language, geo-specific terms, and cultural relevance.
• Stakeholder specific to metadata for the development of content moderation services including linguistic and semantic analyses, metadata application, consistency, and relevancy.
• Partner with the SEO and SEM teams to discover opportunities in metadata, implement validation test scenarios and define the desired outcomes of metadata clusters, synonym rings, and similarity search.
• Establish smart, semantic auto-mapping to create seamless integration and interoperability across multiple descriptive attributes, international languages and character sets.

Skills:

• Hands-On Approach: You should be sharp, love rolling up your sleeves, getting your hands dirty, working alongside your team and leading by example.

• Entrepreneurial inclination to discover innovative opportunities for applying analytical techniques to business strategies.
• Working knowledge of media data standards, examples include; IPTC, EMM, Metadata Standards Group, Exif, XMP, RDF, Dublin Core, ONIX, etc.
• Experience in resolving search and information organization issues around synonym rings, synsets, homographs, polysemes, stop words, etc.
• Experience with impact analysis reporting and information visualization techniques – comfortable with statistics and data visualization in Excel.
• Strong understanding of information organization architecture, digital asset management systems, database relationships, semantic modeling, metadata mapping and transformation.

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MLS, Business, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Pluses:

• Knowledge and understanding of the image stock industry business.
• Experience with project planning, resource allocation, and cost modeling.

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V

To apply: http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs.mhtml?nl=1&jvi=o1ssYfwD,Job&jvs=Indeed&jvk=Job