Job Description

About MUBI

MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. To make this possible, we create, curate, acquire and champion visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world. We have a team of brilliant, dedicated and passionate people to help bring our mission to life. From London to New York, Istanbul to Paris, and Berlin to Mexico - we work together to realize MUBI’s vision.

That’s where you come in! Join our global team and help us make great cinema accessible to everyone, everywhere.

About the Role

As our new Media Technician, you will be providing your support to the team responsible for bringing MUBI titles to audiences all around the world. Using your technical expertise, you'll act as a primary link between post-production facilities, Distribution and Sales departments, ensuring smooth delivery of content to all our partners.

Where you’ll have impact:

• Review and approve technical specifications from our sales partners, as well as external vendors and licensors

• Create localised versions of the feature materials for post-theatrical distribution, including subtitled, dubbed & original version video masters

• Conform AV elements to create deliverables compliant with sales partners' technical specifications, including framerate conversions and audio edits

• Perform quality control checks and file validation on created assets, including picture and audio QC

• Maintain the timely delivery of all film elements to a multitude of clients, including TVOD, EST, Physical Video, TV, SVOD, AVOD, FAST, airlines/ships and educational platforms using a variety of CMS tools

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring all deliverables meet deadlines and technical standards

• Investigate QC flags raised by partners during the delivery process

• Identify areas in the department that could benefit from development and support the design and implementation of new workflows and tools

• Support the video encoding team in expanding the platform support of more advanced streaming formats, such as HDR streaming

What you’ll bring:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in post production environment, including theatrical, downstream and TV workflows

• Solid knowledge of aspect ratios, resolutions, frame rates, colour spaces and audio configurations

• Confidence in handling HDR content, performing edits and versioning HDR masters

• Familiarity with technical specifications of popular streaming platforms

• Ability to spot and identify issues through a QC process

• Understanding of timeline-based editing tools, including proficiency using Adobe Creative Cloud software

• Familiarity with languages spoken in MUBI’s key focus territories

• Creativity in approaching issues, working independently or collaborating with other departments to reach a timely solution

• Ability to work on own initiative, with a good sense of prioritization of assigned tasks

We want to make cinema accessible to everyone. We believe people from different backgrounds bring different ideas that foster innovation and engagement, allowing us to attract great people to develop the best experience for our users.

MUBI is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. That means it's our responsibility to ensure that all candidates are not discriminated against in our hiring processes and our employment decisions based on their race, color, religion, nationality or ethnic origin, age, gender identity or expression, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, family or parental status, or any other applicable characteristic.