Intermediate Photographer and Content Creator (12 month contract)

DECIEM; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation & personal days

Paid parental leave (6 months)

Hybrid work model

Summer Fridays

Dog-friendly office

Employee assistance program

Job summary

DECIEM, The Abnormal Beauty Company, is seeking an Intermediate Photographer and Content Creator for a 12-month contract in Toronto. The role focuses on studio photography for New Product Launches and ongoing campaigns, with high creative autonomy and collaboration with art directors and scientists.

The position is hybrid (3 days onsite in Toronto) with a strong emphasis on color accuracy, tethered workflows, and unretouched visual integrity across packaging and digital storefronts.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of professional commercial studio photography experience.
• Experience on commercial shoots for cosmetics/beauty brands with strong lighting.
• Proven ability to deliver high-volume assets for launches from brief to post-production.

Responsibilities

• Serve as visual lead for New Product Launches and asset creation.
• Develop and execute studio photography for e-commerce, campaigns, and storefronts.
• Set up, calibrate, and operate studio lighting to achieve accurate color.
• Lead tethered shooting workflows and ensure color accuracy and asset delivery.
• Capture macro textures and product applications with clinical precision.

Skills

Commercial photography

Studio lighting

Tethered capture

Capture One Pro

Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop

Team collaboration

Tools

Capture One Pro

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom

DSLR/Mirrorless gear

Job description

Intermediate Photographer and Content Creator (12 month contract)

• Intermediate Photographer and Content Creator (12 month contract)

We are a collective of disrupters and doers, of creatives and scientists, with a mission to reimagine the world of beauty.

Since inception, our vertically integrated structure, including our own laboratories, manufacturing, retail stores, and brand infrastructure, have enabled us to rapidly identify opportunities and deliver quality. Home to The Ordinary, NIOD, AVESTAN, and other emerging brands, our goal is to create with purpose. We were founded on the principle of doing everything that others don’t. Because normal gets you nowhere.

We are DECIEM, The Abnormal Beauty Company.

We are growing rapidly and we’re looking for someone who shares this vision and wants to grow with us!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

The Intermediate Photographer and Content Creator role will own and execute commercial studio still photography across DECIEM’s global brand portfolio, with a primary focus on driving visual execution for New Product Launches (NPLs) alongside ongoing campaign and core portfolio needs. Working with high technical precision and creative autonomy, this role is responsible for translating brand strategy and visual guidelines into unretouched, high-impact studio visuals—spanning e-commerce packshots, product launches, macro formula texture swatches, and model employee product applications. The incumbent will partner directly with Art Directors, Graphic Designers, Copywriters, and scientific teams to produce still assets that communicate clinical integrity, functional minimalism, and unvarnished product truth. Beyond camera execution, this role manages tethered capture workflows, color accuracy, asset management, prop staging, and sporadic travel requirements while upholding strict visual standards.

This is a hybrid role based 3 days onsite out of our Torontooffice. It is a 12 month contract position.

To be considered for this role, you must submit your online portfoliofor review.

WHAT YOU’D BE DOING IN THIS ROLE

New Product Launches & Technical Studio Execution

• Serve as the visual lead for New Product Launches (NPLs), creating hero still photography and support assets that translate complex formulation science into clear, high-impact product stories.


• Own the development and execution of commercial studio still photography for e-commerce packshots, global campaign moments, and digital storefronts in strict alignment with brand visual standards.


• Set up, calibrate, and operate studio strobe and continuous lighting environments to achieve clean, crisp illumination, balanced shadows, and exact packaging color fidelity.


• Lead tethered shooting workflows (Capture One Pro), file ingestion, color management, RAW processing, digital clipping, and final asset delivery across web, retail, and print channels.


• Capture high-detail macro swatch photography that showcases raw product formulas, viscosity, surface tension, droplets, and tactile textures ("gross-satisfying" spreads, microemulsions, and viscous flows).


• Utilize specialized macro lenses and lighting configurations to communicate formula performance and ingredient technology with clinical precision, avoiding artificial enhancement or digital distortion.

Model Employee Product Applications

• Conduct studio photography featuring internal team members as models to demonstrate real product applications, using close, deliberate cropping to highlight genuine product texture and application techniques.


• Enforce the brand's strict unretouched skin policy—capturing natural skin textures, realistic highlights, and biological authenticity while prohibiting smoothing filters, deceptive skin retouching, or hired agency models.

Prop Staging, Set Direction & Resource Stewardship

• Source, build, and style minimalist prop environments that elevate product function and structural form without distracting from the hero formula.

Creative Collaboration, Workflow & Travel Readiness

• Partner closely with Art Directors, Graphic Designers, and Copywriters to ensure photography integrates seamlessly into typographic layouts, grid systems, and campaign narratives.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE

• 3–5+ years of professional commercial studio photography experience, ideally within cosmetics, skincare, personal care, CPG, or high-design luxury environments.


• Demonstrated experience working on commercial shoots or campaign projects for APAC or Asian beauty/skincare brands, with a strong understanding of regional aesthetic standards, texture visualization, and skin-first lighting techniques.


• Proven track record of executing high-volume assets for fast-paced New Product Launches (NPLs) from brief through final post-production delivery.


• Expert mastery of professional DSLR/Mirrorless camera systems, high-end macro lens optics, tethered capture workflows, and studio lighting equipment (strobe, continuous, and modifier control).


• Advanced proficiency in Capture One Pro, Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Photoshop, with deep knowledge of RAW processing, color profiles, color grading, and digital export standards.


• Demonstrated expertise in macro texture capture, managing reflective packaging surfaces, and executing precise product composition.

WHAT YOU’LL BE GAINING BY JOINING OUR TEAM

There’s a lot of good stuff that comes along with being a DECIEM team member. Here’s a few of our favourite perks and benefits, in no particular order…

• Generous Vacation & Personal Days, plus additional time off for volunteering in your community, voting, peaceful protesting, celebrating your birthday, and more.


• 6 months of paid time off for new parents (inclusive of all genders).


• Work from anywhere 4 weeks per year.


• A hybrid work model (for applicable roles).


• Summer Friday’s - get off at 1pm all summer long! (for applicable roles).


• A dog-friendly office (and lots of cute dogs to play with).


• Unlimited access to an Employee Assistance Program that includes mental health care, mindfulness programs, and more.


• Access to Development Grants & a LinkedIn Learning membership to help you keep growing and learning.


• A generous discount on DECIEM products for you, your family, and your friends.

BUILDING GROWTH TO POWER GOOD

We are a People first company that lives by our core values to…

• Play in the grey.


• Be the rabbit.

These values continue to guide us in all that we do. Along the way, we’ve been honoured to win some pretty incredible awards, including a CEW Achiever Award, Best Skincare Brand at Sunday Times Style Beauty Awards, and Most Popular Sustainable Brand by The Cosmetify Index Global. We’re still blushing!

SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT

DECIEM’s objective is to build growth and do good things while prioritizing people, animals, and the Earth.

Our Sustainability strategy is focused on fighting climate change, improved waste management, responsible packaging, responsible sourcing and product lifecycle, and water conservation.

In 2020, DECIEM established the Good Fund to support both large and grassroots charities in response to global events.

CREATING A HUMAN WORLD OF BEAUTY

DECIEM is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by creating meaningful, measurable change in the lives of our team members and in the communities where we operate. Achieving equality is critical to DECIEM and our future. You can learn more about our DEI commitment in our open letter, " Belonging is the Destination, Change is the Journey ".

DECIEM is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial and local laws. We are also committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted to be part of our recruitment process and require accommodation, please let us know.

WANT TO JOIN US?

Thank you for reading the whole thing! If you liked what you heard, kindly send us your resume. We really appreciate your effort in applying for this position. However, only those who have been shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. #SP