Quality Control Technician

Quality Control Technician, Media Experience (Part-Time)

Description

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.  Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering

• Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

We are seeking a talented, hard-working person for a part-time position in the Media Experience Department. We are seeking an experienced, dedicated Associate Quality Control Technician to join our team. In this position, you will maintain quality standards by approving incoming materials, in-process production, finished products, and recording the results. Excellent communication and leadership skills are a must, as well as a keen attention to detail.

Our environment is incredibly dynamic, fast-paced, and sophisticated. The ideal candidate has a background in video quality control and is extremely comfortable working in Mac OS X.

Required Skills

          •         1-2 years related work experience

• Understanding of macOS and Windows operating systems

• Must be able to work a minimum of 28 hours per week
• Must have an exemplary attention to detail.
• Must possess strong communication skills.
• Must possess solid organizational skills.
• The candidate must be self-motivated.
• The candidate must have a strong ability to multitask and adapt to new situations.
• A solid computer and technical background, with experience working in new media and online organizations.
• Familiarity with streaming and broadcast media
• Familiarity with Google apps
• Must be a team player, with an enthusiastic, congenial, and committed employee.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Fluency in languages other than English is a big plus particularly Thai, Vietnamese, Czech, Slovak, or Hungarian

• Helpful skills include a background in encoding video for the web
• An understanding of various video codecs, notably H.264

Job Responsibilities

• Review and analyze video and audio files for visual and auditory defects (e.g., pixelation, audio sync issues, color correction errors).
• Verify subtitles accuracy.
• Log and document quality issues, generating QC reports and flagging critical errors for immediate attention.
• Act as mentor to less experienced quality control technicians.
• Contribute to special projects requiring greater experience and knowledge of quality control methods and workflows.

The hiring range for this position in New York is $43,000 - $44,00 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.