Bloomingdale's Senior Art Director - Photo

About the role

Bloomingdale's makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial, and collaborative. We welcome and embrace diversity of background, thought, and opinion while having a lot of fun along the way.

Responsibilities

• Ecommerce Selling Shots On-Figure
  • Directs on-set to execute on-figure selling shots within our styling point of view and shot type standards.
  • Executes towards elevation while maintaining productivity that fits within budgetary limits.
  • Adheres to the timeline while contributing ideas for the overall process to improve efficiency and image quality.
  • Collaborates with team and cross-functional partners to evolve styling point of view, keep the styling closet relevant, and stay current with trends.
  • Actively participates in weekly reviews of imagery.
  • Researches the best talent for ecommerce photoshoots, including photographers, stylists, and models.
• Editorial Photography for Print and Digital Projects
  • Take projects from conceptual to final execution through post-production.
  • Present conceptual, model casting, location/studio direction to creative leadership for approval.
  • Lead the creative execution of on-model photography, including campaign, lifestyle, editorial, social, e-commerce, and promotional content.
  • Direct all aspects of photography shoots, including lighting, composition, talent direction, posing, and narrowing image selection.
  • Drive innovation and continuous improvement in styling and photography processes, establishing and communicating best practices.
  • Lead post-production efforts, including image selection, retouching, photo editing, video editing, and final asset review.
  • Collaborate with Photo Producers and key stakeholders to optimize resources and control production costs.
  • Partner with Marketing and Creative teams to support key launches, hero campaigns, retail initiatives, influencer collaborations, and brand events.
  • Ensure imagery effectively showcases product performance, brand storytelling, and consumer engagement opportunities.
  • Collaborate with Creative Leadership, Producers, Production, Design, Social, and Video teams for integrated creative execution.
  • Partner with Global Marketing team to ensure photography assets support global market needs while maintaining brand consistency.
• Brand Stewardship
  • Serve as a key creative partner in maintaining and evolving our brand visual identity across photography.
  • Ensure imagery consistently reflects our values, aesthetic, and consumer positioning across social media, e-commerce, retail, PR, paid media, influencer content, and marketing materials.
  • Champion innovation in photography techniques, technologies, and creative processes to elevate brand storytelling and consumer engagement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university.
• 5+ years of direct experience.
• Proven experience developing and executing photography for large-scale campaigns, product launches, brand marketing initiatives, and social-first content.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in on-model photography, beauty imagery, portraiture, and visual storytelling.
• Experience collaborating with senior creative and marketing leadership on integrated campaigns and brand initiatives.
• Deep expertise in lighting, composition, color theory, retouching direction, and photographic production workflows.
• Experience leveraging AI-enhanced creative and retouching tools while maintaining authentic product representation and responsible visual storytelling.
• Exceptional creative judgment with the ability to balance brand consistency and innovation.
• Proficiency with industry-standard photography equipment, capture software, Adobe Creative Suite, and asset management workflows.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and project management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment while managing multiple high-priority initiatives.
• Portfolio and social media handles are required for consideration.

Physical Requirements

• Requires prolonged periods of sitting, with occasional standing.
• Occasionally requires walking, bending, reaching, hearing, and talking.
• Continuous use of computers and other office equipment.
• Frequently lift/move up to 25 lbs.