Job Summary: 

As our Photography Manager, you'll lead our photography team, overseeing day-to-day operations at our store and warehouse locations. With a focus on capturing and editing product images of some of the coolest guitars, drums, accessories and other instruments, you'll work alongside your team to ensure high-quality visuals for our website and e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Reverb. 80-90% of the role involves hands-on photography work and 10-20% of the role involves management duties including staffing, training, equipment maintenance, and coordinating with other managers and departments. This position works closely with the Ecommerce and New Product teams.
In your application please let us know about your product photography and management experience as well as your familiarity level with musical instruments!

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Manage the day to day product photography operations at our store and warehouse locations
• Photograph incoming musical instruments and edit product images for our website and e-commerce platforms
• Lead initiatives to enhance shooting and editing processes, revisiting and refining existing procedures as needed for optimal efficiency and quality
• Conduct daily meetings with the photography team to set priorities, assign and delegate tasks
• Collaborate with other departmental managers, including but not limited to Ecommerce, Sales, and Purchasing Managers
• Ensure photography results meet quality and consistency standards of both CME and its partners
• Schedule staff and allocate to locations as needed, manage time clocks, and approve PTO requests
• Coordinate with various departments to prioritize products within photography queues, ensuring timely completion of tasks
• Generate reports on the production output of the photography team, tracking key metrics, and identifying and acting upon areas for improvement
• Hire, onboard and train photography staff members, and provide ongoing guidance and support, continuously develop training guides and manuals
• Maintain photography supplies and equipment, ensuring they are in good working condition and readily available for use, replace and/or fix as needed
• Proactively address the needs of the team, promptly responding to staff requests and escalating issues when necessary
• Review and address requests for updated, improved, or otherwise inaccurate live product photography, delegate tasks as necessary