About the Role
We’re looking for an organized, detail-oriented Digital Asset Management Coordinator to support Pottery Barn’s digital photography and DAM system, ensuring assets are accurately tagged, easy to find, and available to the teams that need them. You will maintain metadata standards, support photography workflows and asset migrations, troubleshoot DAM issues, and provide user support.
Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day DAM workflow, including asset synchronization, approvals, organization, and maintenance.
- Review and audit metadata to ensure assets are accurate, complete, and easy to find.
- Tag and validate product and asset information such as Brand, Season, Year, Asset Type, Product Name, Color, SKU, Group ID, and Keywords.
- Research missing information and clean up metadata for legacy assets.
- Perform quality checks and keep production teams updated on progress.
- Test DAM search performance and document issues and results to help improve the system.
- Work with DAM teams across WSI brands to share best practices, troubleshoot common issues, and improve workflows.
- Review and tag photography with accurate product and asset information, correcting naming or metadata issues.
- Move selected photography through the tagging and production process and keep teams updated on status.
- Research product information using internal systems, external resources, and input from Art Producers, Merchants, Creative Production teams, and the Color team.
- Track late-add photography and ensure teams have visibility to changes throughout the season.
- Help refine and improve tagging and metadata practices so assets remain organized and discoverable.
- Help support DAM access requests and user permissions.
- Onboard and train new DAM users on search, navigation, filters, and everyday best practices.
- Help teams find current and legacy photography, including difficult searches with limited information.
- Answer DAM questions, troubleshoot issues, and escalate technical problems when needed.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience with Digital Asset Management, digital production, creative operations, or related work.
- Strong attention to detail and a knack for keeping information organized.
- Good research and problem-solving skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities in a fast-moving creative environment.
- Strong understanding of metadata and taxonomy, and file management best practices.
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, photography, or creative production is a plus.
- Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM Assets) or other DAM platforms.
- Comfortable working in Excel with CSV files and larger datasets.
- Familiarity with Airtable, Kazing, ShotFlow, or similar production tools is helpful.
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud is a plus.
- Like bringing order to a lot of information and catching the details others might miss.
- Enjoy researching, troubleshooting, and figuring out how to connect things.
- Comfortable helping people with different levels of technical experience.
- Ask questions, look for better ways of doing things, and aren’t afraid to dig into a problem.
- Enjoy working with creative teams and understand that priorities can change quickly.
Skills
- Digital Asset Management
- Digital production
- Creative operations
- Metadata
- Taxonomy
- File management
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM Assets)
- DAM platforms
- Excel
- CSV files
- Airtable
- Kazing
- ShotFlow
- Adobe Creative Cloud
Experience Level
- 2-4 years
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000-$80,000
Benefits
- A generous discount on all WSI brands
- A 401(k) plan and other investment opportunities
- Paid vacations, holidays, and time off to volunteer
- Health benefits, dental and vision insurance, including same-sex domestic partner benefits
- Tax-free commuter benefits
- A wellness program that supports your physical, financial and emotional health
- In-person and online learning opportunities through WSI University
- Cross-brand and cross-function career opportunities
- Resources for self-development
- Advisor (Mentor) program
- Career development workshops, learning programs, and speaker series
About the Company
- Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States.
- Our family of brands are Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Rejuvenation, West Elm, Mark & Graham, Outward, and GreenRow.
- We offer beautifully-designed, stylish and functional products for every area of the home, including the kitchen, living room, bedroom, home office, closet, laundry room and even outdoor spaces.
- We've seen some big changes since our first brick-and-mortar store opened more than half of a century ago.
- What hasn't changed is our passion for high-quality products, functional design, outstanding customer service, and enhancing the lives of our customers and the communities where we operate.
- Today, we're a multi-brand, multi-channel, global enterprise supported by state-of-the-art technology and some of the most talented teams in retailing - and we're always looking for new energy and ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, or other applicable state or local laws and ordinances.
