Photographer/Designer

About the role

The Columbus Blue Jackets Photographer/Designer plays a hands-on creative and production role as part of the Blue Jackets holistic Media & Content team. This position is responsible for capturing, producing, and delivering high-quality visual content that supports digital, marketing, branding, and storytelling initiatives across the organization’s owned channels. Working closely with content, marketing, sponsorship, and production partners, the Photographer/Designer helps execute day-to-day content needs while ensuring creative excellence, brand consistency, and alignment with overall content strategy.

Responsibilities

• Capture compelling photography-based content that tells the story of the Columbus Blue Jackets across games, practices, events, community initiatives, and business operations
• Touch up and edit captured assets for use across social media, digital platforms, website, email, and marketing campaigns
• Collaborate daily with content, marketing, sponsorship, and production teams to execute content plans and deliverables
• Support real-time and quick-turn content needs in fast-paced and live event environments
• Maintain brand standards, visual consistency, and quality across all content deliverables
• Organize, archive, and manage photography assets within established workflows and systems
• Assist with creative ideation and execution informed by platform best practices, trends, and performance optimization insights

Competencies

• Job Knowledge: Competent in required job skills and knowledge; exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills; keeps abreast of current developments; requires minimal supervision; displays understanding of how job relates to others; uses resources effectively.
• Dependability: Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Design: Generates creative solutions; translates concepts and information into images; uses feedback to modify designs; applies design principles; demonstrates attention to detail.
• Communications: Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Innovation: Displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; generates suggestions for improving work; develops innovative approaches and ideas; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.
• Judgement: Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions.
• Planning/Organizing: Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans.
• Quality: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or Business or related field from four-year college or university preferred; a minimum of 2 years' experience in content capture and editing for digital or social media platforms.
• Experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, preferably in sports or live events.
• Knowledge of current content trends and industry best practices.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.