Associate Photographer- Trenton, NJ

Overview

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Founded in 1986, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

Role

The Associate Photographer role supports marketing efforts on CoStar’s industry-leading marketplaces, Homes.com and Apartments.com, by capturing beautiful 3-D virtual tours and floor plans. This role involves scanning homes and apartments with a Pro 3 Matterport camera, creating virtual tours and floor plans, and taking residential photography for marketing purposes.

Responsibilities

• Support marketing efforts on Homes.com and Apartments.com by capturing 3-D virtual tours and floor plans.
• Create a portfolio of photographs to best feature homes and apartments, using photography techniques to capture spaces in the most pleasing way possible.
• Work closely with scheduling and dispatch teams to maximize appointments and meet client demands.
• Professionally communicate with clients, sales associates, logistics, and the management team to strategize priorities, initiatives, and tasks.
• Own the market! Navigate one-mile square grids to ensure complete commercial real estate data coverage, identifying new inventory, missing availability, and commercial properties to be photographed.
• Absorb CoStar safety standards to safeguard company vehicles and equipment.
• Represent CoStar in a professional manner at all times.
• Participate in conference calls with sales and research teams as needed.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of professional experience in real estate photography.
• Experience working as a professional photographer, or a recently earned degree in photography.
• High School Diploma/GED.
• Strong customer service experience with a client-first mindset.
• Experience as an experienced Drone Photographer with a FAA Part 107 License/Certification obtained within 30 days of offer.
• Strong time management skills and very detailed-oriented.
• Capability to accurately capture and enter data.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet applications.
• Apple IOS products.
• Enjoy working independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Field experience preferred.
• Current and valid driver’s license.
• Satisfactory completion of a Driving Record/Driving Abstract check prior to start.

Physical Requirements

• Repetitive and frequent sitting in a car, standing and walking for up to 8 hours per day.
• Lift, carry, and maneuver equipment weighing up to 5 pounds.
• Repetitive hand and arm movements needed to type on a tablet or laptop and operate camera equipment.
• Occasional bending, stooping, squatting, lifting, twisting, and carrying necessary to perform job functions.
• Ability to work and drive outside during all seasons.
• The ability to work weekends on a rotating schedule.

Compensation

This position offers an hourly wage equivalent to $49,000-$50,000 annually, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan. This position offers an hourly wage equivalent to $50,000 annually, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

What's In It For You?

• Collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower people and customers to succeed.
• Generous compensation and performance-based incentives.
• Professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
• Benefits package including comprehensive healthcare coverage, life, legal, and supplementary insurance, virtual and in-person mental health counseling services, 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.