Getty seeks a forward-thinking Metadata Specialist to join the Getty Research Institute’s (GRI) Digital Stewardship and Metadata Optimization team within Special Collections. This full-time, limited term position (July 2026 until June 2029) will support a major initiative to migrate archival content into a centralized digital asset management system and data management platform. This work will help to consolidate systems and enable advanced technologies such as IIIF and Linked Open Data to enhance discovery and access. The migration will lay the foundation for streamlined operations across the organization, improving consistency, standardizing practices, and opening new opportunities to generate and enrich metadata for archival collections at scale. The...

Reporting to Getty’s Controller, the Tax Manager is responsible for overseeing all tax-related matters for the organization, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local tax regulations applicable to a complex non-profit entity. While managing a team of two, this role oversees tax filings, provisions, audits, and multi‑state compliance while supporting the tax implications of a large endowment with significant private equity investments. The Tax Manager also provides advisory support across Getty.   This position operates in a professional environment and works closely with finance leadership and institutional partners to support the organization’s mission through sound tax governance....

Our Mission   The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance, and is one of four programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust.  The Museum operates two facilities, the Getty Villa in Malibu, which exhibits its collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, and the Getty Center in Brentwood, which displays its collections of European art: Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, paintings, sculpture, decorative...

The Getty Research Institute’s (GRI) Conservation and Preservation department seeks applicants for a limited-term, four-year position of Assistant Paper Conservator.   The Assistant Paper Conservator will join a dynamic team of conservators, mount-makers, pre-program and graduate interns, and will report to the GRI’s Head of Conservation and Preservation. The Assistant Paper Conservator will primarily oversee the preservation, examination, documentation, and treatment of the Richard Hunt archive, and other...

At Getty Digital, we are re-imagining how we can use data, software, and systems to provide a seamless and welcoming experience for Getty visitors, both on-site and online. This position plays a central role in this effort by managing large and complex technical projects to advance Getty’s work.  This is a three-year limited term position.   We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced professional to join the Portfolio Project Management Office (PPMO) team within Getty Digital for a limited term employment of three years. This position reports to the PPMO Manager and works closely with the Digital...

Responsible for providing a variety of administrative duties to Office of General Counsel where work is of a confidential nature.  

The Getty Foundation is the grantmaking arm of The J. Paul Getty Trust. The Foundation has also evolved to be one of the Getty’s primary mechanisms for building important and lasting relationships in the Los Angeles and Southern California communities. In collaboration with the Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and Getty Conservation Institute, the Foundation works to strengthen the global arts ecosystem through strategic philanthropy. It supports institutions and individuals working to advance art historical research, conservation practice, and curatorial excellence, and supports efforts to train the next generation of arts leaders. The Director of the Getty Foundation will lead a global...

Getty Research Institute (GRI) invites applications for an Authorities & Entity Management Metadata Specialist (Metadata Specialist III) to join our newly established Digital Stewardship and Metadata Optimization team. Based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the GRI is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the visual arts and their histories. Serving an international community of scholars, the Research Library is one of the world’s largest art and architecture libraries, with holdings exceeding 1.5 million volumes. Our Special Collections encompass rare books and journals, photographs, prints and drawings from the 15th century to the present, architectural plans and models, art multiples, film, audio and video recordings, born-digital...

Our Mission   The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance and is one of four programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust.  The Museum operates two facilities,...

The Getty Research Institute seeks to appoint an Associate Curator to develop, administer, and present its collection of prints and drawings, which span the Renaissance to the contemporary era. The ideal candidate will be a specialist in Early Modern art history, and possess the capability and willingness to work across the breadth of the collection and with diverse graphic media. Under minimal supervision, develops, administers, and presents the GRI’s special collections of prints and drawings by acquisitions and donations, maintaining and managing them in collaboration with colleagues.