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Image Production Specialist: TED.com
by Michael Glass
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Oct 30, 2008 at 9:43:36 pm |
Image Production Specialist -- www.TED.com
TED.com is an award-winning website with several million users each month who visit us to stream, download and share our video content, featuring inspired presentations from the world's leading thinkers and doers. The site's high production values extend to our best-of-class video player, encoding techniques and photography. We are rapidly expanding the scope of our work, and are looking for an image production specialist who will help with the day-to-day work of managing our photo archive, preparing images for video and the web, and taking on other design-related tasks as they arise.
Responsibilities will include:
+ Managing our extensive archive of images including curating, categorizing, and tagging images
+ Selecting & prepping 10+ images a week for publication on the web
+ Rapid fulfillment of internal and external image requests
+ Rapid development of comps for site and sponsorship needs
+ Designing, building and managing slide decks
+ Sourcing stock photos and working with our consulting photo editor
+ Other presentation and production design tasks as required
The ideal candidate has an excellent eye for dynamic imagery, and is very comfortable working with digital photography.
Specific skills should include:
+ Expertise in Photoshop CS2 or later, including Photoshop's type and design tools
+ Comfort with digital asset management applications such as Photo Mechanic, Aperture or Lightroom.
+ Fluency in Powerpoint and Keynote
+ At ease in an Apple/Macintosh computing environment
+ Understanding of image rights and Creative Commons licensing
Any experience with the following a big plus:
+ Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Quark
+ Proprietary content management systems
+ Moving media across local and remote networks
+ Basic knowledge of print pre-press
The ideal candidate also has experience working with video, a genuine excitement about working with new technologies, and interest in intelligent leading-edge content. Strong organization and project management skills are assumed. A broad interest in the world -- including science/technology, design/architecture, entertainment and the arts -- is a very big plus.
This is a full-time position based in TED's downtown New York office. Role will begin as a 3-month contract position, with strong possibility of full-time position, including full benefits.
Email resume and work samples to ips@ted.com
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