Sr. Photo Editor

Lensa; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company in real estate is seeking a Senior Photo Editor to enhance their editorial content. The role involves overseeing visual storytelling, collaborating with editors, and ensuring high-quality images align with brand standards. This position requires extensive experience in a newsroom and strong coordination skills. Join a dynamic team dedicated to empowering individuals in their home search.

Benefits

Inclusive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement program

Free snacks and refreshments

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a fast-paced newsroom.
• Strong relationships with photographers and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Set the creative vision for editorial content.
• Oversee all visual storytelling across editorial content.

Skills

Coordination

Creativity

Communication

Education

10+ years of experience in a newsroom

Tools

Photo editing software

Job description

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Lensa is the leading career site for job seekers at every stage of their career. Our client, realtor.com, is seeking professionals in New York, NY. Apply via Lensa today!

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

Realtor.com’s News & Insights is seeking an experienced photo editor to support its content efforts, and who has proven experience in a fast-paced newsroom. The team covers a range of topics, including trends, real estate news, unique homes, advice, and celebrity homes.

This position requires the photo editor to work across all platforms, with a skill set that includes having a solid understanding of licensing requirements, be adept at thoughtful and deep research, working with wire and other agencies, commissioning photographers, and creating basic graphics.

This is the ideal role for someone who has strong coordination skills, is proactive, creative, and can set a new standard through visual storytelling.

The role reports to the VP, Editorial and Content, and will be based in New York City.

What You’ll Do

• Set the creative vision for Realtor.com’s editorial content
• Oversee and approve all visual storytelling across editorial content, ensuring creative quality and consistency with the Realtor.com brand
• Collaborate with editors and journalists to executive innovative visual storytelling and generate original ideas.
• Edit and curate thoughtful visual content for web, app, social media and distribution partners
• Maintain organized records of licensing agreements, permissions, MLS agreements and restrictions, and image credits.
• Familiarity with stock/wire image services and best practices for rights management.
• Ensure all sourced images align with photo quality standards and editorial guidelines.
  
  

How We Work

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of experience working in either a newsroom or editorial brand that has a strong focus on editorial content
• Relationships with photographers, agencies, and other sources, including Realtors
• Advanced knowledge of photo editing and production skills
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
  
  

At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.

The quoted salary range represents our good-faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. All ranges are location-based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.

Salary Range for select office locations

• New York: $95,000.00 - $135,000.00
  
  

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as a percentage of salary. Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors, including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

How We Reward You

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
  
  

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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