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About the Role
As a Lead Photographer in the HelloFresh Studio, you will be part of the Photography team, working across food, product, lifestyle, and marketing productions. You are an exceptional photographer with deep technical and visual expertise, setting the benchmark for photographic quality, craft, and production excellence. You will lead through expertise, influence, and example, helping elevate the capabilities of the photography team while maintaining high standards across large-scale asset production. You will play a key role in developing photographic talent, evolving ways of working, and driving continuous improvement. You will collaborate closely with Producers, Styling, Culinary, Post-production, and Creative teams to deliver high-quality and scalable visual production across multiple brands. You will stay up to date with industry developments and actively support AI direction, experimentation, and content generation initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead by example and continuously raise the bar for photographic quality and execution across the Studio
- Execute and oversee food, product, lifestyle, and marketing photography to the highest commercial standards
- Coach, mentor, and support photographers through feedback, knowledge sharing, and hands-on guidance to elevate overall team capability
- Define, maintain, and continuously improve photographic standards, shooting guidelines, and best practices
- Work together with Studio leadership to improve production quality, studio efficiency, and scalable ways of working
- Collaborate closely with Art Direction, Styling, Culinary, Post-production, and Creative teams to ensure strong and consistent visual execution
- Support complex productions and solve creative and technical and production challenges on set
- Drive consistency across large asset volumes while maintaining visual excellence and operational efficiency
- Actively contribute to Studio and company AI initiatives by supporting experimentation, developing practical use cases, and helping integrate AI-supported and hybrid content creation workflows
- Act as a trusted expert and escalation point for photographic quality, technical decision-making, and production excellence
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in commercial photography, ideally including food, lifestyle, product, and high-volume e-commerce content production
- Exceptional photography craft and technical excellence
- Deep expertise in lighting, composition, camera systems, color, production environments, and visual storytelling
- Experience operating in fast-paced production environments and collaborating across multiple disciplines and stakeholders
- Experience leading photographers or creative production teams is a plus
- Highly influential, collaborative, and comfortable aligning stakeholders without relying on hierarchy
- Strong production mindset and continuously look for opportunities to improve workflows, quality, and efficiency
- Stay current with developments in photography, visual production, and AI-supported content creation, and understand how to apply new technologies in a practical production environment
- Expert knowledge of Capture One and strong understanding of color grading and image editing
- Experience with additional photography, automation, or AI-supported production tools is a plus
- Ability to interpret and deconstruct creative briefs and translate them into practical photographic approaches, balancing creative intent, production realities, and visual quality
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- A portfolio of recent and relevant work is mandatory
Skills
- Photography
- Lighting
- Composition
- Camera Systems
- Color
- Production Environments
- Visual Storytelling
- Capture One
- Color Grading
- Image Editing
- AI-supported content creation
Experience Level
- 7+ years