Position Details
Content Acquisitions Coordinator
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Summary
Gaia (www.gaia.com), the world’s largest subscription video on demand provider of transformational media, seeks a Content Acquisitions Coordinator for its Digital Operations team in Louisville, Colorado.
This role will manage media intake and QC for licensed, acquired and externally produced content through the duties listed below.
Content Intake and Quality Control:
- Review upcoming titles in coordination with the Head of Acquisitions to ensure contract deliverables alignment.
- Organize folders and logins for content intake.
- Initiate communication with licensors and producers and facilitate online content transfer.
- Manage the intake process for all media, metadata, and artwork related to licensed, acquired, and externally produced content.
- Format and adjust media as needed to meet required specifications (frame rates, audio levels etc).
- Perform minor editing tasks such as adding pre-roll, fixing frames, and burning in subtitles.
- Process media through technical QC software and review QC reports.
- Communicate any failed QC items directly with licensors, content acquisitions, or producers to request necessary fixes, and diligently track resends, secondary QC, and final approvals.
- Collaborate with Publishing & Digi Ops teams to automate workflows and enhance efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Ensure all new content is uploaded to Youtube for copyright protection.
- Review copyright claims and approve or release.
- Verify Gaia affiliates are cleared and new affiliates added.
- Investigate issues and initiate removal of content for ad-hoc copyright violations.
- Cross-train as backup for media ingest.
- Support for various projects.
Qualifications
- Familiarity with various video codecs (MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, WM9, QuickTime, ProRes, H.264) and audio codecs (WMA, AAC, MP3, MPEG, AC-3, WAV).
- Experience with media transcoding and editing using Adobe Premiere.
- Meticulous attention to detail and motivated by process.
- Strong organizational and time management skills for tracking multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to operate and think independently, as well as collaborate with others.
- Ability to quickly learn new systems & software related to digital operations and media management.
Essential Qualifications:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to efficiently communicate with internal and external teams.
- Affinity for Gaia’s content or existing Gaia subscriber preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or related field/equivalent work experience.
- Trust-worthy, team player, eager to learn.
- Experience with Agile method-based project management a plus (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience with Airtable or similar relational databases a plus.
- Full fluency in English, fluency in one additional language a plus (Spanish, German, French).
- US citizenship or US residency with an existing work permit is required
- Non-smoker
- No matter how extraordinary a candidate might be, even if they could bend space and time with their brilliance, we solemnly swear that we will remain unyielding in our dedication to the in-office experience. Our commitment is etched in stone and cannot be swayed by even the most awe-inspiring talents.
- Only those who possess the utmost love for in-office work need apply. Remote work enthusiasts, we respect your passion but stand firm in our ways.
Compensation
- Type: Salary
- Range: $55000 - $65000 (USD)
More About Gaia
Gaia exists as a transformational network to empower a global conscious community.
Gaia (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a publicly traded company in Louisville, Colorado. We offer global video streaming of over 8,000 original series, shows, films, documentaries, and practices for conscious living to our members in over 190 countries. Our vast video library serves as a vessel for the community we seek to empower. We are not a subscription service that streams whatever pays our bills. Our content goes deep into select niches of Seeking Truth, Transformation, Alternative Health and Yoga channels. We often cover subjects that other media companies won’t touch.
We expect you did explore Gaia’s library of original shows, documentaries, and films. If our work on ancient wisdom, who are we, our true history, coverups, and metaphysics resonates, you might be a good fit for Gaia. We seek to hire and inspire employees who embrace our mission to empower a global conscious community, who hope their work empowers our community of inspired members, to be a catalyst of transformation. The best work we do every day is to remember our vision is “to empower the evolution of consciousness.”
The perks of working collaboratively with a team dedicated to sharing this mission include an on-site gym; a beautiful solar-powered campus, complete with hiking and running trails, community garden, and a labyrinth; and an on-site, mostly organic café that serves breakfast and lunch daily including a full-service espresso bar featuring locally roasted coffee.
Full-time employees are offered alternative and traditional medical benefits including preventative coverage; as well as dental, vision, 401K, and life insurance.