Job Title: Media Assistant
Location: Burbank, CA.
Employment Type: Contract (9 months)
Industry: Entertainment
Compensation: $ 40
Schedule: 40.00 hrs/Week
About the Opportunity:
- Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of client linear networks and theatrical content.
- This includes client media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more.
- The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with client regional business teams.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Perform the processing and management of media assets in a results-driven environment.
- Traffic media in systems such as google, air table or other internal tooling.
- Media Prep for OTT, Streaming and necessary downstream destinations.
- Make editorial updates to final files for compliance with network specs.
- Perform audio loudness measurements to ensure correct specs.
- Review and remediate timed text files for final distribution.
- Receive and Send media via Aspera or other cloud-based delivery mechanisms.
- Help to troubleshoot issues with files and recommend fixes.
- Perform metadata validation and entry including segment timings to create broadcast automation database records.
- Collaborate with team members as part of a high functioning team that is able to effectively and efficiently execute assignments.
- Assist manager in developing, maintaining and creating daily, weekly executive reporting.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 2+ years of experience in media asset preparation, operations or editorial work
- 2+ years of experience in Data I/O, Media Curation and Trafficking
What Sets You Apart:
- Prior use of cloud-based asset management software such as Aspera on Cloud, MAMs and Data I/O
- Understanding of streaming specifications and workflow from curation to delivery
- Ability to transcode and encode video and audio files using tools such as Premiere Pro
- Ability to handle ex
- Solid Understanding of digital file formats and creation of ProRes files, and Proxy files
- Solid Understanding of Timed Text files both English SDH and Foreign language subtitles
- Knowledge of HDR and SDR color workflows and using tools such as Colo front Transkoder to interpret color space
- Prior use of cloud-based asset management software such as Aspera on Cloud, MAMs and Data I/O
- Understanding of streaming specifications and workflow from curation to delivery
- Experience with short form clips, especially in horizontal and vertical formats.
- Experience with validating assets through tools such as Media Info and Dolby Vision Metafier
- Experience with Harding software for PSE testing
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Apr 08, 2026