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East Coast Project Manager

Digital Transitions
5.0 out of 5 stars
Washington, DC
$55,000 - $65,000 a year - Full-time

Location

Washington, DC

Benefits
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  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off

Full job description

Introduction

Pixel Acuity, a division of Digital Transitions, is a small dynamic company of over 36 employees with offices in NYC, LA, and DC. Pixel Acuity provides photo imaging services to clients in the heritage space including, but not exclusive to, museums, libraries, public archives, and corporate archives. Like our parent company, which is world-renowned for providing best in class imaging solutions to the Heritage and other photographic markets, we hold ourselves to a very high standard. We are a person-focused organization, which embraces a long-term, sustainable work-life balance, and where vacation time is actually taken and respected. Our positive work environment, strong management, and amazing clients have led to consistent growth, high talent retention, and market success.

Job Overview

The East Coast Project Manager oversees the digitization workflow of current and prospective offsite projects as well as projects in the Chantilly Office. This role is client-facing and requires the ability to manage an imaging production team, which includes: communicating with clients and account managers, monitoring project progress, setting deadlines, evaluating project performance, defining project goals, and seeing projects through to completion.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Responsible for generating daily and weekly production reports to client
  • Responsible for final stages of quality control and processing
  • Serves at primary tech lead in hardware and software troubleshooting for PhaseOne/DT Hardware
  • Forecasts and schedules Incoming and Current projects and quotas
  • Oversees, Documents, and Manages projects through entire Digitization Workflow
  • Communicates with Client, Account Managers, and R&D as needed
  • Master advanced Capture One concepts, scripting, tethered capture technologies
  • Hardware troubleshooting for Phase One/DT Hardware
  • Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • BFA in photography, imaging, or related field, and/or or equivalent related work experience
  • 3 years experience managing heritage digitization projects
  • Experience with digital preservation and curation practices and principles
  • Experience managing digital projects in an academic library, museum or commercial imaging environment
  • Experience with using spreadsheets
  • Excellent organization and time management skills
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and team management skills
  • Quality control experience, assessment through remediation
  • Knowledge of non-destructive editing, current imaging and heritage technologies, standards, and best practices (FADGI standards)
  • Valid US Driver's License
  • Able to lift 50 pounds
  • Local to Washington, DC Metro Area: Reliably commute to Chantilly or planning to relocate before starting work

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with Digital Transitions products
  • Experience with using Capture One, Adobe Creative Suite, BasICColor, Golden Thread
  • Expert knowledge of ColorSync and digital color management, creating custom profiles, reading calibration targets, and RAW imaging processing
  • Experience with using digital asset management systems and workspaces

Salary: Commensurate with experience. Includes full benefit package including medical, dental, and 401K

Work: Monday to Friday, 8:30 - 5:30

If interested, please submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@pixelacuity.com

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person