About the Role
The Media Delivery Operations team provides operational and procedural support for partner products, including system health monitoring, incident management, live and VOD streaming media orchestration, and cross-team communications. As a Media Delivery Operator, you will work with a small but dynamic team responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting the VOD ingestion pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter and technical expert for supply chain operations
- Review audio/visual content against strict deadlines
- Coordinate with external partners to fix content to ensure deadlines are met
- Research and normalize metadata
- Create tracking tickets for assets that need remediation and follow them to completion
- Provide technical expertise for content issues with A/V, XML, and timed text
- Monitor the health of the encoding pipeline and provide technical and operational support
- Identify and triage internal incidents, escalating them to the appropriate technical teams in a timely manner
- Update documentation and train team members on procedures
- Provide ongoing status of the overall health of the ingest pipeline to senior staff
- Work with the larger coordinator team to ensure that assets finish the ingest pipeline, and content is reviewed and approved on time
- Provide technical support of the ingest pipeline and supply chain
- Troubleshoot and debug content issues and escalate as appropriate
- Handle special projects at the request of a manager
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of related work experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Background in video or film is preferred
- Strong knowledge of video codecs and encoding
- Familiarity with video streaming, specifically HLS
- Understanding of closed captions and subtitles
- Understanding of XML and/or JSON structure
- Knowledge of industry standard delivery specifications such as Cable Labs and Movie Labs
- Previous Experience supporting a VOD workflow or Digital Asset Management system
- Strong organizational skills, must be able to track large scale projects
- Strong multi-tasking abilities and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance
- Experience in Quality Control department
- Knowledge of Aspera or other advanced delivery systems
- Spanish language proficiency
Skills
- video codecs
- encoding
- video streaming
- HLS
- closed captions
- subtitles
- XML
- JSON
- Cable Labs
- Movie Labs
- VOD workflow
- Digital Asset Management system
- Aspera
- Spanish language
Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- Minimum of 3 years of related work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- $73,100 to $98,000 per year
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
About the Company
- Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
- The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.
- We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.
- We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
- Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more.
- These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
- We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
