Manager, Photography – New Jersey Devils

 POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Manager of Photography serves because the lead photographer for the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center, overseeing pictures manufacturing, visible course and asset workflows throughout each manufacturers.

Reporting to the Director, Social Media Strategy, that is each a strategic and extremely hands-on place. The Manager of Photography is answerable for capturing, enhancing and delivering compelling imagery, establishing photographic requirements and coordinating the sources required to satisfy precedence pictures wants throughout the group.

The supreme candidate combines distinctive technical pictures abilities with a classy editorial and model eye. This particular person should thrive in fast-paced stay environments, make robust selections beneath tight deadlines and collaborate successfully throughout departments.

 RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE BELOW:

Photography Production and Creative Direction

• Serve as the first photographer for Devils video games, practices, media days, crew occasions, neighborhood packages, partnership activations and different precedence organizational initiatives.
• Lead and execute pictures protection for choose Prudential Center live shows, occasions and leisure initiatives.
• Capture, choose, edit and ship high-quality imagery on deadline to be used throughout social media, digital platforms, editorial content material, advertising campaigns, promoting, partnerships and print.
• Establish and evolve distinct photographic course and visible requirements for the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center manufacturers.
• Partner with the Content crew and broader Marketing division to translate campaigns and organizational priorities into pictures plans, inventive briefs and shot lists.
• Lead studio, portrait, product and way of life pictures, together with shoot preparation, lighting and picture manufacturing.
• Collaborate with departments together with Hockey Operations, Partnerships, the Devils Youth Foundation and Prudential Center to find out pictures priorities and protection wants.
• Serve as the first pictures contact for inside stakeholders, freelance photographers, exterior distributors and media photographers masking sports activities and leisure occasions.

Asset and Workflow Management

• Manage the whole pictures workflow, together with seize, ingest, choice, enhancing, metadata, archiving and distribution.
• Select, edit and transmit imagery shortly throughout video games, occasions and different stay environments.
• Work intently with the Senior Asset Manager to keep up organized, searchable and accessible pictures libraries.
• Help present best-in-class asset assortment, group and distribution by way of PhotoShelter, Iconik and different DAM/MAM platforms.
• Ensure inside stakeholders obtain correct, high-quality property inside required timelines.
• Maintain constant requirements for file group, metadata, picture high quality and archive integrity.

Coverage and Resource Management

• Develop pictures protection plans primarily based on organizational priorities and obtainable sources.
• Recruit, schedule, transient and oversee a dependable roster of freelance and occasion photographers.
• Provide clear inventive course and high quality management for pictures produced by exterior contributors.
• Oversee pictures manufacturing budgets and exterior vendor relationships.
• Maintain pictures tools and advocate future tools, know-how and workflow wants.
• Contribute to the general tradition of the Marketing crew and assist elevate visible requirements throughout the group. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• An expert pictures portfolio have to be submitted with the applying.

Required

• Five or extra years {of professional} pictures expertise.
• An distinctive portfolio demonstrating sports activities or motion pictures, live-event protection, portrait or studio work and model storytelling.
• Demonstrated potential to seize, choose, edit and transmit imagery shortly in a live-event setting.
• Advanced proficiency with skilled digicam techniques, lenses, lighting and studio tools.
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, significantly Photoshop and Lightroom.
• Experience managing pictures property, metadata and digital archives.
• Experience directing freelance photographers, exterior distributors or small visible groups.
• Strong inventive judgment, group, communication and time-management abilities.
• Ability to handle a number of priorities and reply to altering wants beneath tight deadlines.

Preferred

• Photography expertise with an expert or collegiate sports activities group, main leisure venue or shopper model.
• Experience with PhotoShelter, SmugMug, iconik or comparable asset-management platforms.
• Video seize and enhancing expertise, together with familiarity with Premiere Pro and After Effects.

 WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Travel Requirements May be required to journey (<15% journey); journeys could require air journey and/or in a single day keep for a number of nights 
• Work Environment: This place predominantly requires that work be carried out from the Prudential Center/New Jersey Devils workplaces, however attendance at occasions going down within the enviornment or offsite, together with on weekends and/or holidays, can be required.
• Physical Requirements: This place requires the power to elevate as much as 40 kilos.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

The advantages package deal for the place could embrace the next, topic to the phrases of the then-in-effect Company insurance policies, plan paperwork and different eligibility standards: 

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Flexible Spending Accounts 
• Pretax Transportation Benefit
• Generous Parental Leave insurance policies
• 401K (with an organization match after 1 yr of service)
• Generous Paid Time Off insurance policies
• 13 Paid Holidays
• ½ Day Summer Fridays
• Complimentary or Discounted Sports & Concert Tickets
• On Site Fitness Rooms
• Other League & Partner Discounts

We are an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, coloration, faith, nationwide origin, intercourse, sexual orientation, age, incapacity, gender id, marital or veteran standing, or some other protected class.