Meg Barron Email & Phone Number

Point contact for all global Product visual assets across KAYAK+ including; sourcing, licensing, content rules and asset management.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Managed and improved visual content for hotels worldwide across all brands.
• Handled all hotel image related issues reported directly from hotel owners, brands or customer support team.
• Kept directors and teams in sync by communicating across functions. (product, design, engineering, commercial)
• Reviewed potential copyright claims by working directly with legal counsel on best practices.
• Monitored competitive landscape by staying aware of latest technology and capabilities across all platforms.
• Facilitated marketing teams with hotel image requests for blogs and social placements.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Sourced and licensed destination images for the world across all brands.
• Managed and improved visual content for hotels worldwide.
• Logo creation and management for hotels, airlines and car rental locations.
• Assisted marketing, email and social teams with image requests for campaigns, email blasts and blog posts. (see attached media for examples of images I curated for blog purposes)

Boston, MA

• Evaluated manuscripts to determine legal issues and provided the production team with costs and time schedules associated with clearing the third-party content and advising if clearance will fit the overall profit.
• Notified project managers and sales reps of potential high fees for use of third-party material.
• Took ownership of issue resolution, including notifying project team, escalating issues, and ensuring accurate and timely resolution.
• Formed positive relationships with numerous copyright holders ranging from independent authors to large publishing houses.
• Handled biannual and quarterly billing reports for large third-party agencies and business case holders.
• Provided preliminary cost estimates to sales reps for new custom titles, revisions or high revenue accounts.

Greater Boston Area

• Simultaneously managed up to 40 separate projects at a time. Acted as owner and expediter by managing requests, proactively communicating with all interpersonal players and ensuring quality standards were met or.
• Identified issues with past textbooks to enhance current textbooks.
• Created project schedules by controlling priorities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Managed high profile projects including third-party text and images.
• Team player willing to support other team members with work overflow.
• Met spending goals provided by clients to help them realize cost savings.

Plymouth, MA

• Created, managed, and revised all project schedules, while coordinating with all team members.
• Established lasting working relationships with reps from multiple art and image vendors.
• Researched images and video based on project specs for print and electronic national edition products for Cengage Learning, Pearson Education and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Worked directly with authors and editors to locate the best images for a variety of projects.
• Organized and distributed digital files in a timely manner.
• Strong problem solver with analytical skills.

Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Assisted Permission Project Managers with various tasks including but not limited to sourcing imagery, reviewing credit lines and invoice management.