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Editorial Photo Editor - Team Lead

The Editorial Photo Editor - Team Lead position calls for an experienced and detail-oriented leader responsible for managing a team of photo editors and leading day-to-day editing operations. You should love rolling up your sleeves and working alongside the team to review, edit, and curate images for our global market. The team lead will collaborate daily with photographers, assignment editors, sales reps, and tech teams to drive excellence across all our event and assignment coverage.

You are someone who thrives in the fast-paced, 24/7 world of entertainment, news, and sports and is comfortable with non-traditional work hours. You are a self-starting, multitasking team player who can also assume individual responsibility for issues as they arise. The ideal candidate thinks strategically and applies expert judgement to identify the most impactful images to drive value for our global market and clients.

What you’ll do:

Responsible for managing a team of photo editors and executing line management operations and duties.
Support day-to-day operations for the Los Angeles based photo editing team and be the escalation point for any issues or obstacles raised.
Lead photo editing production onsite for entertainment assignments and large-scale events.
Collaborate with other Editing Team Leads, the Director, Editorial Content Operations, the Director, Editorial Assignments, and the Snr Manager, Editing and Production to ensure a one-team approach and consistency with processes and standards.
Work with the Director, Editorial Content Operations on resource allocation, coverage strategy, and event performance reviews
Manage scheduling for editing coverage, including assignments and events, for the local team.
Review, edit, and curate images, both onsite and remotely, for entertainment, news, and sport events.
Collaborate with staff photographers, contributors and partners to provide editing guidance, actionable feedback, and file transfer support.
Identify, edit and select the most impactful photographs ensuring that relevant aspects of a story are covered.
Review and edit captions and keywords for accuracy in accordance with Shutterstock’s guidelines and standards.
Prioritize image selection and processing with consideration for the market, customers and deadlines.
Use performance data to develop an effective and efficient content strategy that supports ongoing editorial decision making and content execution.
Lead post-event quality evaluations, sharing insights with relevant parties to drive improvements.
Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and the Contributor Management team to understand market trends and customer expectations when curating compilations or collections.
Maintain full awareness and interest in global entertainment events, news, trends, fashion, and celebrities.
Maintain a regularly updated Shutterstock Editorial homepage that reflects the top events and stories of the day.
Develop, build and maintain relationships with clients and contributors by providing excellent customer service.
Maintain a full understanding of the global client base, expected deadlines, and image preferences.
Significant amount of travelling and working evenings and weekends may be required.

What you’ll bring:

4+ years of professional photo editing experience.
Outstanding team leadership skills. Excellent communicator, decisive, results-driven, with strong ability to align and inspire teams.
Experience working with decentralized teams in multiple locations.
Expertise working with industry standard image editing tools and processes (including Adobe Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, and FTP clients).
Familiarity with metadata standards, proficient at creating and editing captions, keywords and media classifications.
Hands-On: You should love rolling up your sleeves and working alongside the team.
Expertise working in the Editorial licensing industry.
Strong business development or client facing experience.
Strong organizational and time-management skills as well as the ability to handle several projects simultaneously.
Domain expertise and passionate enthusiasm for sports, news, entertainment and celebrity media.
Excellent communicator, decisive, deadline-driven, people-oriented person who excels under pressure.
Analytical mindset, able to use data analysis to inform and guide future operational decisions.
Exceptional at achieving time-sensitive production goals while managing multiple (and competing) priorities and imminent deadlines.
Available to work non-traditional schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays. Some travel is required.

Duration: Full-Time

Travel: 25%

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE:

SSTK

), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of

high-quality licensed photographs

vectors

illustrations

videos

and

music

to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week and has millions of images and video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns

Bigstock

, a value-oriented stock media agency; Shutterstock Custom,

a custom content creation platform

, Offset, a

high-end image collection

; PremiumBeat a curated

royalty-free music

library; Rex Features, a premier source of

editorial images

for the world's media; Webdam, a cloud-based

digital asset management service

for businesses.

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At Shutterstock, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. The compensation package offered may vary depending on employment experience, skills, and knowledge. You may also be eligible for our generous benefits package including health, wellness and financial benefits. Compensation ranges for candidates in locations outside of the location(s) below may differ based on the cost of labor, market, and additional factors.

The pay range for this position is below:

80,000 - 100,000 per year in California

Note: Commission-eligible roles are expressed as on-target earnings (base and commission). Non-commission roles are expressed as base salary only but are also eligible for annual incentives.

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Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

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Internet & Web Services

TEAM SIZE

1001-5000

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in New York, NY

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