Freelance Entertainment Photo Editor in Las Vegas, NV, USA

The Opportunity:
Shutterstock, a leading global technology company, offers high-quality assets, tools and services that provide creative content to agencies, media companies and organizations. Through our creative platform, we license editorial and commercial images and videos - as well as innovative tools that power the creative process.

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We’re looking for freelance photo editors in Las Vegas. This position calls for a creative, self-motivated, and detail-oriented team player who loves to collaborate with photographers to capture major entertainment events. You are someone who thrives in a high-energy environment and is comfortable with non-traditional work hours. This role thinks strategically about how to identify the most impactful images to drive value for our global market and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside and provide editing and file transmit support for photographers at entertainment, music, and fashion events.
• Use insightful judgment to identify and edit the most impactful photographs ensuring that relevant aspects of a story are covered.
• Create and edit captions for accuracy and impact.
• Prioritize image selection and transmit with consideration for the market, customers and deadlines.
• Maintain full awareness and interest in global entertainment and celebrity events, news, trends, fashions, and celebrities.
• Maintain full understanding of the global client base, expected deadlines and image preferences.

Requirements:

• Hands-On: You should love rolling up your sleeves and working alongside the team.
• 2+ years of professional event-based photo editing experience.
• Proficient at creating and editing captions, keywords and media classifications.
• Domain expertise and passionate enthusiasm for entertainment and related media.
• Exceptional at achieving time-sensitive production goals while managing multiple (and competing) priorities and imminent deadlines.
• Available to work non-traditional schedules including evenings and weekend shift work.
• Expertise working with industry standard image editing tools and processes (including Adobe Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, and FTP clients).
• Experience collaborating with photographers in high-activity fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communicator, decisive, deadline-driven, people-oriented person.
• Proficiency in Mac based systems and applications.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This position requires a MacBook Pro laptop and relevant image editing software.

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range? (USD)
$250-350 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

Twine can guarantee 3 relevant freelancers for an upfront fee of $650/£500. Would you like to know more?
No

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
4-5

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Does the freelancer need insurance?
Yes

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me