Job Title: Digital Asset Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt
Hours: Full-Time
Salary Range: $66,000.00-$72,000.00 per year with flex up to $78,000 for exceptional candidates
Location: Omaha, NE (onsite)
Reports To: Creative Director, with dotted-line accountability to the Hurrdat Media Director
Cover letter that details your relevant experience and what you bring to the role required.
About Hurrdat
Hurrdat is one of a kind. A media, marketing, and entertainment agency.
We were founded in Nebraska in 2010, and after a decade of growth later we have grown to be a uniquely well-rounded marketing and advertising agency with in-house media, sports, entertainment, and film divisions.
Steady year over year growth, expansion of services, plus mergers and acquisitions over the years (Lukas Partners, Canary & Coal, and Parkville Media to name a few) has grown our team to over 150 people.
We serve over 200 clients who collectively operate in 46 states and 3 countries. Our clients range from local businesses just starting to build their brand and online presence to enterprise organizations.
About the Role
We are hiring an experienced Digital Asset Manager to own how Hurrdat captures, organizes, secures, and distributes the photo, video, audio, and design assets generated across Hurrdat Marketing, Hurrdat Media, Hurrdat Sports, Hurrdat ONE, our in-house video and creative production teams, and our enterprise client work.
This is not a training-wheels role. The expectation on day one is that you already know how to run a DAM operation at scale. What we will train you on is how Hurrdat works today, who produces what, and where the seams are. What got us here is a decade of pragmatic, cobbled-together systems that served a smaller operation. None of it is sacred. We are actively rebuilding around custom cloud and data infrastructure being architected on Google Cloud, AWS, and Snowflake, and we expect this role to help drive the migration off legacy tools like PhotoShelter into something purpose-built for our volume and our use cases.
The candidate we want leads with an AI-first mindset. Before you propose adding headcount, a vendor, or a manual process, your first question should be how AI, automation, or smart architecture can solve it. We expect you to bring a point of view on AI-assisted tagging, transcription, search, rights management, derivative generation, and workflow orchestration, and to push us on what is possible.
What You Will Own
Asset architecture and migration. Lead the transition off legacy systems like PhotoShelter onto our emerging cloud and data infrastructure. Partner directly with our Senior AI/ML Engineer and Data Science Director on storage, retrieval, search, and access architecture across Google Cloud, AWS, and Snowflake.
Library operations across divisions. Govern the unified asset library serving Hurrdat Marketing, Hurrdat Media, Hurrdat Sports (live game and event capture, podcasts, video production), Hurrdat ONE, in-house video and creative production, and enterprise client work.
AI-first workflow design. Identify, evaluate, and implement AI and automation across ingest, metadata generation, tagging, transcription, search, derivative creation, and distribution. Build the case for what to keep manual and what to automate.
Ingest and standards. Set the standards for how assets enter the library from photographers, videographers, audio engineers, motion designers, and external contributors. Build the protocols that make this routine, not heroic.
Metadata and findability. Define the metadata schema, taxonomies, and naming conventions that make assets findable across teams, projects, clients, and time. Push for AI-assisted enrichment wherever it improves recall without sacrificing accuracy.
Distribution and access. Build the access model. Make it easy for the right people to find and pull what they need, and difficult for the wrong people to do anything they should not.
Quality control and audits. Run regular audits for duplication, versioning, file integrity, resolution, and format. Resolve issues at the system level, not one file at a time.
Backup, security, and disaster recovery. Own the backup strategy, retention policy, and access controls. Coordinate with our internal IT and data leads on enforcement.
Rights, licensing, and compliance. Track and manage usage rights, licensing terms, and clearance status for client work, sports content, music, talent likeness, and any third-party assets. Build the system that prevents us from using something we should not.
Cross-team enablement. Train and support producers, designers, account teams, and creators on how to work inside the system. The goal is self-service, not gatekeeping.
Who You Are
5 plus years running digital asset management in a high-volume creative, media, sports, or production environment. Coordinator-level experience alone will not be enough for this role.
Hands-on experience leading a DAM migration or full system replacement. You have done this before, not just read about it.
Direct, hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform and AWS, plus working knowledge of Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse. This role partners closely with our Senior AI/ML Engineer and Data Science Director on the underlying database and storage architecture. You will not be a passive user of what gets built. You will help shape it.
Demonstrated track record of applying AI and automation to asset workflows. Specific examples expected in your cover letter or interview.
Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite file types, video codecs and containers, RAW photo formats, audio formats, and the realities of working with very large media files.
Working understanding of metadata standards, controlled vocabularies, and taxonomy design.
Working understanding of copyright, licensing, talent releases, and usage rights in a media and sports context.
Excellent communication skills. You can explain technical decisions to creative people and creative needs to technical people.
Self-directed. Bill manages to outcomes, not hours. You should be comfortable owning a roadmap and being measured on results.
Bonus Points
Direct experience replacing PhotoShelter, Photomechanic Plus, Bynder, Brandfolder, Frame.io, Iconik, or comparable platforms with custom or hybrid infrastructure.
Experience designing or contributing to a custom-built DAM layer on top of cloud object storage (S3, GCS) rather than off-the-shelf SaaS only.
Experience supporting live event and game-day capture workflows at scale.
Experience with rights management for sports media, music licensing, or talent likeness.
Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, or AI-assisted media search.
Bachelor's degree in a related field. We care more about what you have built than where you studied.
What We Offer
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Parental Leave
Employee Discounts
401(k) Retirement Plan
Paid Time Off Policy
Flexible Schedule
Disclaimer
The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees. It is not designed to contain, nor is it to be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and objectives required of employees assigned to this position.
Hurrdat is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer as defined by the EEOC.
