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ABOUT THIS JOB
Gracenote Global Video Data is the definitive collection of worldwide TV, movie, and on-demand data. Top cable, satellite, OTT, and service providers around the world rely on Gracenote to power TV schedules, turbo charge video search, and discovery, and empower audiences to find and enjoy their favorite shows. With deep data describing movies and TV shows, including episode and series descriptions, genres, moods, and cast details, as well as live sports events, music, and more, Gracenote powers next-generation user interfaces and discovery engines. From TV listings to touchdowns, Gracenote is the first and only provider of descriptive data for Movies, TV, Sports, and Music, as well as stunning imagery on a global scale.
We are looking for a Schedule Editor for the French market specifically with French language skills. Responsible for the efficient processing and curation of television schedules. It requires diligent workflow management to accurately process and update electronic programming guides (EPG) as they become available by different content providers. Schedule Editors are also responsible for maintaining, updating, and improving the Gracenote database that powers the consumer product and ultimately the end-user experience. Schedule Editors assist and report directly to Ingest Metadata Production Team Leaders, who manage all market-specific daily operations. The ideal candidate will be able to accurately process a high volume of entertainment metadata in a timely fashion. They will be able to manipulate this data, to normalize and enhance it for evergreen use in the Gracenote database.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Acquire, normalize and enhance entertainment metadata (television electronic programming guides) from various content providers.
- Processing and manipulation of data required to ingest correctly into in-house software tools.
- High attention to detail is required to ensure that high-quality, accurate and timely, evergreen content is created in the Gracenote database.
- Investigate, query, and confirm questionable programming content when applicable.
- Run quality and assurance checks via systematic reports looking at the live database.
- Analyze and recommend process improvements.
- Contribute to team and department projects as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proficient knowledge of French language (B2 and above)
- Keen interest and broad sports knowledge are a real benefit for this position.
- Experience using computer software and databases, very good keyboarding skills.
- Data entry experience using content management systems beneficial.
- Experience with, or desire to work within a team, excellent communication skills.
- Must be able to work accurately under deadline.
- Good knowledge of television, movies and VOD programming is a plus, especially in the market language.
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