Senior Studio Photographer: Shape Slate Automotive Visuals

Slate Automotive LLC; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Slate Automotive LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Studio Photographer to define and elevate the brand visuals across e-commerce, campaigns, and marketing. You will lead studio photography with an art-director mindset, shaping lighting, color, and composition for a distinctive look.

You will build and codify guides, supervise on-set teams, and collaborate with Creative and Marketing to launch new vehicle programs with a consistent visual language.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional studio photography experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop a visual identity or 'look' for a brand, campaign, or product line.
• Experience building a studio from the ground up, equipment selection, workflow design, and space setup.
• Advanced proficiency with both continuous and strobe lighting to shape mood.
• Experience mentoring or directing other photographers, retouchers, or on-set crew.

Responsibilities

• Own visual development for studio and automotive photography, establishing lighting language and color palette.
• Develop and maintain the e-commerce image guide for vehicles and accessories.
• Provide art direction on all studio photography from concept through retouch.
• Direct brand-level studio image production for hero imagery and campaigns.
• Lead visual guideline development for future vehicle programs and launches.
• Spearhead lensing standards and accurate vehicle representation across outputs.
• Design and operate continuous and strobe lighting and overhead systems on set.
• Oversee 360°/rotational capture using turntable systems.
• Shoot tethered on set and manage live capture review with production teams.
• Author and maintain the studio photography brand book for consistency.
• Manage and organize photo assets in the DAM platform with tagging/versioning.
• Collaborate with marketing and design to incubate new concepts and campaigns.
• Provide art direction to junior photographers and on-set crew.
• Lead final image selection, retouching direction, and color grading.

Skills

Brand identity development

Studio photography

Automotive photography

Lighting design

Lensing and composition

Art direction

Mentoring / leadership

Tethered capture workflows

DAM asset management

E-commerce image standards

Tools

Canon

Sony

Phase One

Adobe Photoshop

Lightroom

Capture One

Brandfolder (DAM)

Job description

Slate Automotive LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Studio Photographer to define and elevate the brand visuals across e-commerce, campaigns, and marketing. You will lead studio photography with an art-director mindset, shaping lighting, color, and composition for a distinctive look.

You will build and codify guides, supervise on-set teams, and collaborate with Creative and Marketing to launch new vehicle programs with a consistent visual language.