Assistant Techno Editor
Location: Noida
Position Type: Full time
Purpose of Role:
ATE to have an overview of life-cycle of a small range of simple projects, they are able to interpret the stakeholder requirements under guidance, seek advice from Assistant Producer on possibilities of workflows in order to maximize accessibility of content and bridge the gap between the creative and technical.
The roles ambit starts with assessing the data’s structural treatment, to going through editorial changes and innovations, advising on technical feasibility of requests to creative, to delivering finished products on time and within budget.
Additional tasks would be around the maintenance of digital data:
- Supporting the Assistant Producers in more complex title management.
- Assisting with QA tasks.
- Providing support in data tasks for app projects and testing.
- General administrative support and assistance across the team.
Key Responsibilities
- An ATE at the DK Digital Operations Department is responsible for working on the creation, structural editing and conception of layouts of digital products in conjunction with Creative and tech teams.
- To be able to manage every phase of simple fixed and PDF digital product creation, until delivery to the supply chain.
- To help interpret and allow effective communication between software and creative teams to deliver best possible digital product within agreed spec and timeframes.
- Liaising with outsourcers to get content up to desired project specifications.
- Managing scheduling and budget of title creation with outsourcers and communicating changes to the key stakeholders.
- Liaising with an international team to understand project requirements and guiding the local team with the preparation and execution of the agreed plan
- Ensure that all information is checked as thoroughly as possible for accuracy, design and layout across various digital platforms
- Making estimates for editorial, technical, and design resources required for accomplishing the assignments.
- Act as interpreters between Creative and technical teams to work out the technical and creative feasibility of a project.
- Ability to grow an understanding of all technical logic and come up with logical solutions to automate issues or take in Creative requests.
- Get a sense of the overall work within the department and pitch in as and when necessary with ideas and hands-on help to meet the rel="noopener" targets for the team.
- Ensure all apt documentation on workflows, checklists and schedules are maintained at various stages of any project.
Maintain service levels provided and relationships with key stakeholders across the business.
Key Skills & Knowledge
- Have an aptitude and enthusiasm for learning new technologies and thinking creatively and logically
- Ability to multitask and work with a diverse team across multiple projects
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ideally some experience in creating/editing web-based and/or interactive media products
- Capacity to interpret creative and business needs and work with developers to build appropriate digital responses.
- Basic proficiency in both analyzing and marking-up content and maintenance of structural and semantic consistency.
- Mid-level experience in XML authoring and editing tools such as XML Spy, Oxygen, xopus, xmetal and HTML editors like Dreamweaver
- Some experience of project management.
Key performance indicators
- Motivated, informed, flexible and performing team
- Efficient processes and workflows
- Supported and well informed stakeholders
- Successful delivery and conversion of DK content for different Digital Platforms such as websites, ePubs, and mobile phones.
- Handling multiple projects simultaneously