Senior Studio Photographer

About the Role

The Senior Studio Photographer will explore new ways of presenting Buckle merchandise and brands, accenting the quality, details, and special features through ecommerce photography and creative image editing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Fashion Photography

• Communicate and coordinate with the Buckle Marketing Team to generate multiple purposes for fashion editorial content.
• Operate digital cameras and equipment effectively to obtain high quality photographs.
• Maintain expertise in editing software and apply techniques to edit digital images.
• Distribute and archive photography according to assignments and requests.
• Follow standards for product and image photography on Buckle.com.
• Collaborate with the Visual Merchandising Team in setting standards for product and image photography on Buckle.com that represents and appeals to our diverse product and Guest mix.
• Provide content to the Buckle Marketing Team for placement on social channels.
• Research and understand the merchandise plan for each season and present ideas for seasonal fashion content topics.
• Present innovative ideas for photographing our product selection through various channels, including email, store signage, and digital creative.
• Understand marketing results for content projects and apply results and research to future planning and recommendations.
• Provide suggestions for supplemental content topics and photography concepts.
• Cull, refine and edit imagery in line with creative direction for each specific DA (digital asset).

General

• Fulfill mission statement by performing job duties with a high level of customer service while contributing to a positive team spirit.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities but acts in a leadership capacity within the Fashion Photography Team.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university and five to seven years related on-figure photography experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in fashion photography preferred.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the Teammate is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The Teammate is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The Teammate must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the Teammate regularly works in an office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.