Digital Asset Manager

Historic New England seeks a Digital Asset Manager to play a central role in managing and improving the systems and practices that support the organization’s digital collections and content. This position oversees the governance, organization, preservation, and reuse of digital assets across the organization while working within Historic New England’s preservation philosophy and practices.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Digital Asset Management & Systems Administration - Leads the day-to-day administration and ongoing improvement of digital asset systems, including the organization’s DAM platform and related storage environments (e.g., cloud storage and shared drives). Develops and maintains standards, governance frameworks, and workflows for managing digital assets across their lifecycle. Leads migration of digital content from legacy file systems into sustainable, well-managed environments. Ensures digital assets are organized, described, and preserved to support long-term stewardship of collections, properties, and institutional records, while enabling discovery and reuse across systems.

Training, Support, and Internal Collaboration - Works closely with teams across the organization—including Property Care, Preservation Services, Conservation, Visitor Experience, Marketing, Collections Services, and Development—to support effective management and reuse of digital content. Develops and delivers training, documentation, and guidance to build internal capacity and promote consistent practices. Provides hands-on support for teams generating large volumes of digital resources, including property documentation, conservation records, and preservation easement materials.

Metadata, Rights, and Standards - Establishes and maintains metadata standards and practices that support discovery, reuse, and interoperability across systems. Improves the quality and consistency of asset description. Develops and supports rights management practices, including copyright, licensing, and usage guidelines, to enable appropriate access and reuse of digital content across exhibitions, publications, fundraising, and digital platforms.

Systems Integration and Innovation - Plays a key role in improving access to digital materials across systems and services, helping align digital content across platforms. Contributes to ongoing improvements in digital asset workflows and tools, including the evaluation and use of emerging or AI-assisted technologies to enhance search, metadata creation, and discovery of relationships between assets.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in information science, museum studies, library science, digital humanities, or a related field, or equivalent combination of skilled work experience

Experience administering or supporting digital asset management platforms

Strong understanding of metadata standards and controlled vocabularies

Familiarity with digital preservation principles and lifecycle management

Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams

Experience working with cloud storage platforms and migrating content from legacy systems

Knowledge of copyright, licensing, and usage rights as they relate to digital assets

Experience developing documentation, training, or user support for digital systems

3–5 years of experience managing digital assets or digital asset management systems (ResourceSpace experience a plus.)

Commitment to the highest standards of professionalism, excellence, and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in museums, archives, libraries, or other cultural heritage organizations

Experience with cultural heritage metadata standards and vocabularies (e.g., Dublin Core, LIDO, EAD, Getty vocabularies)

Experience improving search, discovery, or reuse of digital content, including using qualitative and quantitative data to understand user needs and behavior

Experience or interest in applying emerging or AI-assisted tools to support metadata creation, transcription, or content analysis

Familiarity with web content workflows and content management systems (e.g., WordPress)

Familiarity with collections management systems or other structured databases (SQL knowledge a plus)

Other Duties:

Please note this position description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

About the Organization:

Historic New England—founded as the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1910—is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent preservation organization in the United States. Historic New England welcomes the public to thirty-eight exceptional museums  and landscapes, including several coastal farms.

The organization operates a major collections and archives center in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and has the world’s largest collection of New England artifacts, comprising more than 125,000 decorative arts and objects and 1.5 million archival documents including photographs, architectural drawings, manuscripts, and ephemera. Engaging education programs for youth, adults, and preservation professionals, and awardwinning exhibitions and publications are offered in person and virtually. The Historic New England Preservation Easement program is a national leader and protects 127 privately owned historic properties throughout the region.

To learn more, visit historicnewengland.org

Historic New England is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.