Role: Digital Asset Manager (Contract-to-Hire)
Location: Hybrid, Stamford, CT (4 days per week onsite at 1 remote)
Hours: 40 per week
Engagement Type: Temp to perm
Rate: $60-69/hr ( after temp period salary offered for full-time is $125k + )
Overview
This senior Digital Asset Manager will build and lead a modern asset management function within a high-output creative organization. The role focuses on designing and enforcing the systems, standards, and workflows that keep creative content organized, discoverable, compliant, and ready for activation across channels.
This is a hands-on leadership position within Creative Services. The ideal hire understands how creative teams work and how to support them without adding friction.
Key Responsibilities
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Platform Ownership and Governance
- Act as the primary owner of the Bynder DAM platform as the authoritative hub for all creative assets.
- Design and maintain a clear organizational structure for assets, including naming, metadata, taxonomy, and folder logic.
- Implement and uphold rigorous standards for asset quality, version control, and rights/usage management.
- Set and manage user roles, permissions, and access levels across global and cross-functional teams.
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End-to-End Creative Workflow
- Map and optimize the full asset journey from production through approval, ingestion into DAM, and distribution.
- Ensure that only final, approved, and rights-cleared assets are stored for broad use.
- Partner with Creative, Marketing, Legal, Product, and other stakeholders to align on approval steps and compliance requirements.
- Identify and eliminate gaps, redundancies, and unclear handoffs in the asset lifecycle.
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Cross-Functional Partnership
- Serve as the central DAM expert for creative, marketing, eCommerce, and related teams.
- Ensure assets are created and delivered in the formats and specifications needed for product detail pages, digital shelf, campaigns, and retail channels.
- Collaborate with IT on integrations with tools such as PIM, CMS, and eCommerce platforms while retaining strategic ownership within Creative.
- Influence upstream activities (briefing, production, approvals) to support a clean, scalable asset ecosystem.
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Optimization and Scaling
- Continuously refine metadata, tagging, and workflows to improve searchability and reuse of assets.
- Track and drive improvements in key outcomes such as time-to-market, asset reuse, and content availability.
- Design systems that support high volumes of content, multiple brands, and global markets without sacrificing quality or control.
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Training, Enablement, and Adoption
- Develop and deliver training for new and existing DAM users across regions and functions.
- Create easy-to-follow documentation, playbooks, and usage guidelines.
- Set expectations and hold teams accountable to DAM standards and best practices.
Required Background and Skills
- Minimum of 8 years focused experience in Digital Asset Management.
- Background in an in-house creative department or a leading creative agency is mandatory.
- Demonstrated ownership of an enterprise-level DAM platform; experience with Bynder is strongly preferred.
- Deep knowledge of metadata models, taxonomy and schema design, tagging strategies, and asset lifecycle management.
- Strong familiarity with workflows for photography, video, campaign assets, and eCommerce content.
- Proven success operating in fast-paced, high-volume settings with many stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Ability to implement structure and enforce standards while still enabling creative speed and experimentation.
- Confident communicator with strong presence and the ability to influence senior partners and cross-functional leaders.
