As a global marketing experience company, Quad’s goal is to help our clients win every day. We use our data-driven integrated marketing and manufacturing platform to streamline solutions for our clients, reduce friction and enhance their marketing spend effectiveness. We’ve built a rich legacy by believing in our people, allowing them to act like owners and to take charge of their own success. Whether an operator, sales rep, a graphic artist or a clinician, we’re all driven to perform at our best— for ourselves and our clients. At our core, we’re a company that believes we can always create a better way. GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB The primary role of the Digital Asset Manager is to manage department tasks, workflows and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, metadata, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets for multiple purposes while maintaining brand consistency. The (DAM) Manager will also develop protocol for downloading, renaming, backing up, rating, grouping, archiving, optimizing, maintaining and exporting files. Digital Assets consist of, but are not limited to, image and video files. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES + Receives and supplies receipt acknowledgement of internal, client, vendor or third party supplied assets. + Compares assets to accepted published standards for inclusion in Client and/or Quad databases. + Enters metadata and product data that pertains to the image and product depicted in the asset. + Help maintain and plan complex workflow to support onsite and offsite needs including access by clients. + Manages asset requests from clients. Maintains lists of assets requested by client and the status of the fulfillment of that request. Reviews reports of asset searches in order to anticipate an asset request. + Organizes assets within the databases based on criteria established for each client. + Ensure all digital assets meet internal and client specifications before final delivery. + Purges old or out of contract images from the image databases. + Requests product data from client to complete image data record. + Coordinates and manages multiple projects simultaneously. + Tracks and reports daily / weekly on status of image assets in excel and proprietary client systems. + Works with IT to determine improvements needed in database and database interfaces. + Add files and metadata to a central repository. + Comment, collaborate and/or make notes on assets to determine and control uses and promote an asset’s ability to be repurposed effectively. Create keyword hierarchies so assets can be located quickly. + Index and classify assets in a number of ways in which they can be controlled and easily retrieved by approved users to use for appropriate communications. + Preserve the integrity of the digital file and its metadata for the lifetime of an asset so that it can be controlled, versioned, repurposed and archived according to administrative direction. + Search, find, access and/or deliver assets in the proper file formats (often involving file transformation services) so that the asset(s) may be used according to the intended and/or permitted uses. + Coordination of retouching images + Back up images + Send out equipment for repairs when needed + Ordering of supplies + Other duties as assigned by manager JOB REQUIREMENTS Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on an equivalent basis Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in print production Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: N/A Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: + Working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office software – specifically Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint + Working knowledge and experience with CaptureOne, Adobe Photoshop, Bridge, Acrobat. + Understanding of printing and pre-press specifications + Work well with others, including internal staff and external audiences (clients and prospects) + Exceptional listening skills to properly assess the needs of our clients\ #LI-EK1 We offer excellent benefits to eligible employees, including 401(k), holidays, vacations and more. Quad is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a place of belonging — a space where employees do not need to sacrifice who they are to exist and grow in our workplace. Quad does not discriminate on any unlawful basis including race, religion, color, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Quad also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Drug-Free Workplace