Team Photographer – Carolina Hurricanes/Lenovo Center

The 2026 Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes are looking for an skilled, inventive, and extremely motivated Team Photographer to affix our Creative Team. This function is answerable for creating world-class imagery that captures the vitality, emotion, and tradition of Hurricanes hockey throughout each touchpoint—from recreation nights and practices to studio productions, advertising and marketing campaigns, social media, neighborhood occasions, sponsorship activations, Lenovo Center occasions, and historic franchise moments.

Primary Responsibilities
Game Coverage

• Photograph all Carolina Hurricanes house video games and assigned highway video games.
• Capture recreation motion, celebrations, participant feelings, fan experiences, enviornment ambiance, sponsorship activations, and behind-the-scenes storytelling.
• Deliver edited selects throughout video games for quick use throughout digital and social platforms.
• Build complete postgame galleries for organizational use.
• Contribute pictures to NHL Images, guaranteeing well timed supply of recreation motion, editorial options, and storytelling content material for league distribution.

Player & Team Content

• Photograph practices, coaching camp, media day, portrait periods, neighborhood appearances, journey, and workforce occasions.
• Produce studio-quality participant portraits and advertising and marketing pictures.
• Create evergreen content material supporting season-long campaigns and inventive initiatives.
• Design and execute skilled lighting setups for studio portraits, advertising and marketing campaigns, and industrial productions.

Marketing & Brand Photography

• Develop and fulfill pictures requests supporting ticket gross sales, sponsorship, retail, premium hospitality, and company advertising and marketing initiatives.
• Collaborate with designers, movement designers, video producers, and entrepreneurs to create pictures optimized for built-in campaigns.
• Produce way of life, industrial, and conceptual pictures aligned with the Carolina Hurricanes model.
• Produce pictures supporting inner communications, worker headshots, enviornment operations, company partnerships, premium hospitality, concessions, and different organizational initiatives.
• Help outline and evolve the visible model of Carolina Hurricanes pictures via revolutionary storytelling, experimentation, and collaboration with the Creative Team.

Asset Management

• Edit, caption, key phrase, and archive pictures inside the group’s digital asset administration system.
• Maintain constant metadata, file naming conventions, captioning requirements, and archival group.
• Build and keep searchable historic archives supporting future advertising and marketing, editorial, sponsorship, and franchise initiatives.
• Coordinate pictures workflows between the Carolina Hurricanes, NHL Images, Getty Images, and accepted editorial companions.
• Prepare and distribute pictures to editorial shops, sponsorship companions, league platforms, and media companies.
• Ensure all pictures complies with NHL picture licensing, captioning, metadata, and distribution tips.

NHL Images & Photo Operations

• Serve as a major contributor to NHL Images, producing pictures that meets league editorial and industrial requirements.
• Manage and collaborate with picture editors to make sure well timed supply of recreation protection and have pictures.
• Manage game-day pictures workflows between the Carolina Hurricanes, NHL Images, freelance photographers, and accepted distribution companions.
• Recruit, schedule, mentor, and consider freelance photographers to keep up constant visible requirements.

Equipment Management

• Maintain skilled digicam our bodies, lenses, lighting gear, distant digicam techniques, and pictures equipment.
• Coordinate gear upkeep, repairs, stock, and future know-how suggestions.
• Manage distant digicam installations, enviornment strobes, specialty digicam techniques, and rising pictures applied sciences for marquee occasions all through the season.

Lenovo Center Event Photography

• Serve as the first photographer supporting Lenovo Center, documenting live shows and occasions.
• Manage freelance photographer assist as wanted for choose Lenovo Center occasions.
• Produce high-quality imagery supporting venue advertising and marketing, premium gross sales, sponsorship, social media, and public relations initiatives.
• Photograph live shows and reside leisure whereas adhering to artist, promoter, venue, and credential pictures insurance policies.
• Collaborate with venue operations and occasion workers to execute pictures assignments beneath various manufacturing schedules and entry restrictions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s diploma in Photography, Visual Communications, Journalism, or a associated area, or equal skilled expertise.
• 3–5+ years of expertise photographing skilled or collegiate sports activities; NHL or different main skilled sports activities expertise most popular.
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating elite sports activities motion, portraiture, visible storytelling, and technical excellence.
• Expert data {of professional} digicam techniques (Sony most popular), distant digicam techniques, enviornment strobes, and superior studio lighting.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, PhotoShelter, or comparable digital asset administration software program.
• Experience managing pictures workflows, freelance photographers, game-day picture editors, and reside editorial operations.
• Experience contributing to and distributing pictures via NHL Images, Getty Images, or different skilled editorial wire providers.
• Strong understanding of sports activities pictures captioning, metadata, licensing, archival finest practices, and editorial distribution requirements.
• Proven skill to create pictures optimized for advertising and marketing, digital, social media, and industrial campaigns.
• Experience photographing championship occasions, playoffs, live shows, or different large-scale reside productions most popular.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and collaboration expertise with the power to carry out beneath tight deadlines in a fast-paced skilled sports activities atmosphere.
• Ability to work nights, weekends, holidays, and journey extensively.
• Must cross a prison background examine