What are the responsibilities and job description for the Photographer position at Zappos.com?
What you’ll be doing:
- Execute high-quality digital photography for multiple product categories with the main focus being footwear
- Conduct flat apparel styling as necessary
- Complete lighting tests and documenting practices
- Execute and maintain product photography style guides
- Troubleshoot on-set photography challenges
- Partner with appropriate parties to support inventory management
- Name and organize digital files, archive photographic images, and maintain a digital photo database on a local server
- Upload images to various cloud servers
- Utilize internal inventory controls to log and keep track of product throughout the entire production process
- Maintain photography equipment including: cameras, lenses, lights, computers, and other photography components
- Prepare and put away product with a white glove touch before and after imaging
- Experience in a high volume, high production, operations environment
- Skilled in shooting in manual mode and working with various light shaping tools
- Advanced knowledge of photographic production techniques and equipment
- Basic understanding of digital image editing
- General understanding and knowledge of footwear, bags, and apparel
- Ability to operate safely and efficiently on set while hitting production goals
- Comfortable with repetitive work while being on your feet all day
- Ability to easily communicate and collaborate in a team environment
- Possess the ability to work alone for long periods of time
- Ability to consistently meet production goals
- Possess a “whatever it takes” mentality and jump in wherever the work needs to be done
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite
- The team has worked in various roles in different areas of photography/styling within Zappos for the past 8+ years
- If our entire team stood on each other’s shoulders we would be as tall as a brontosaurus
- Collectively we can harmonize, when needed, to any Hall & Oates tune
- We discovered what actually came first between the chicken or the egg - you find out when you get hired
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