ABOUT THIS ROLE
Based in Berlin, Audible GmbH is looking for you as an enthusiastic Working Student – Catalog Operations. You'll work with our Catalog Operations Editorial Team, getting hands-on experience with content ingestion and catalog management for Audible. Think cutting-edge audiobooks and captivating audio dramas – you'll help bring them all to our listeners.
Your day-to-day will center on audiobook processing, with quality control and affiliations as a key focus. You'll review and enter metadata to ensure every title meets Audible's high standards before reaching customers. Through quality assurance, stakeholder communication, and catalog maintenance, you'll support our global team in delivering great products to customers worldwide.
You will feel comfortable in this role if you enjoy working with systems, processes, structured data, and literature in a fast-paced environment, take pride in delivering accurate results, and have a passion for technology and media, specifically spoken word audio.
As a Working Student, Catalog Operations, you will...
- Enter, edit, proofread, and fact-check metadata records in our content management system prior to releasing a product to Audible marketplaces (Audible stores, Amazon, iTunes). Key elements such as a product's company identification, on-sale date, distribution rights, availability, pricing, provider, royalty earner, title, descriptive copy, and taxonomy are top priority areas of review with primary focus on, but not limited to, German and French language products
- Perform, process and verify daily metadata update and correction requests received from providers, customers, and internal stakeholders via tickets or other sources, and ensure that requests are answered appropriately and in due time
- Support customer discovery by creating, verifying and updating product relationships such as Category Assignments, Series Affiliation (e.g. linking works in a trilogy), Title Authority (grouping different versions of works together) or Contributor Authority (bibliography)