Position: Team Photographer
Department: Creative
Reporting Relationship: Reports to Manager of Photo
Status: Full-time (Exempt)
Position Summary
The Carolina Panthers Team Photographer will function the secondary soccer photographer for the crew, photographing all practices, video games, and crew shoots, along with different Club tentpole moments.
Primary Responsibilities
- Photography: Deliver followers the great story of our soccer crew by way of photograph.
- Serve as a photographer for all Panthers gamedays, dwelling and away.
- Serve as a photographer round key soccer moments together with practices, journey, and key offseason occasions.
- Publish all soccer photograph galleries to PhotoShelter in well timed method following soccer occasions.
- Develop techniques to shoot, edit, and ship soccer images wanted for different key content material capabilities together with:
- Website Articles
- Social Media
- Video
- Quality Control: Ensure world-class high quality of all images printed on Panthers social and digital properties.
- Help preserve high quality requirements and processes to make sure high quality and continuity of all images.
- Strategy Assistance: Lead course of to outline, develop, and execute methods for Panthers natural photograph merchandise that serve the wants of our followers and progress audiences.
- Develop, pitch, and ship sellable stock associated to photographic content material.
- Support inventive ideation, making a collaborative and inclusive work setting the place all members contribute to the inventive output of the crew.
- Freelancer Management: Assist within the administration and group of freelance photographers to seize soccer motion on gameday to ship complete organizational wants associated to images.
- Creative Photo Shoot Support: Ideate, plan, and execute inventive photograph shoots in line with broader Creative division aims and marketing campaign content material plans.
- Media Asset Management: Lead course of for photograph asset administration, creating and sustaining a digital photograph archiving system that permits images to be accessed in a well timed and environment friendly method throughout the group.
- Research, pitch, and execute techniques for logging and tagging images in a manner that can be accessible, searchable, and extremely usable throughout the TSE group.
- Responsible for logging processes and coaching
- Curate and preserve Panthers Photoshelter account, or different photograph asset administration techniques.
- Cross-Functional Organization Assistance: Assist in seize, edit and archiving of TSE or Charlotte FC occasions on an as-needed foundation.
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years as knowledgeable photographer, with notable expertise collaborating successfully with different creatives
- Extensive expertise capturing and enhancing sports activities images
- Demonstrated ardour for soccer
- Ability and need to work non-traditional hours, together with nights, weekends and holidays is a should. This position is anticipated to work each dwelling and away recreation throughout the NFL season, plus journey and particular occasions.
- Must cross pre-employment screens
- Must have the ability to deal with confidential, privileged, and/or delicate data rigorously and with sensitivity
Skills for Success
- Excellent oral, written, communication, and proofreading expertise
- Detail-oriented, should have the ability to multi-task, and should have the ability to handle time efficiently
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced setting and suppose creatively
- Ability to work on a crew and independently
Physical Requirements
- Sitting at a desk and pc for lengthy intervals of time.
- Bending, standing, reaching, kneeling, and lifting expertise gear and workplace supplies.
- Walking all through the stadium facility, generally for an prolonged time frame.
Work Environment
- This job operates in knowledgeable workplace setting (largely workplace setting, exterior in a stadium facility at occasions which can embody inclement climate circumstances).
Application Instructions
Applicants should share hyperlink to a digital portfolio within the Recent Work part of the applying
We are an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, shade, faith, nationwide origin, intercourse, sexual orientation, age, incapacity, gender id, marital or veteran standing, or some other protected class.