Photo Editor

Location: London (hybrid arrangement)
Department: Content
Reporting to: Art Director, North America & UK
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Role overview*
We’re looking for a talented Photo Editor to join our growing design team and help us make Time Out’s digital content stand out from the pack. Our approach to design is fun, creative, inspiring and irreverent, and the work we do plays a key role in defining the Time Out brand. We don’t take ourselves too seriously but we do create seriously good work.

The Photo Editor needs to know instinctively what makes a great photo and always be able to select the most eye-grabbing shots out of a series of options. They will be organised and clear-headed, managing the busy calendar of our staff photographer. Experience taking photographs and assisting on shoots is a huge plus, but the main focus of this role is to be in charge of our photo archive and ensure we have fantastic imagery across the Time Out website and social channels.

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Manage Time Out’s photo archive in the UK and North America. This includes sourcing images to support the editorial team’s content output and being responsible for adding images from Time Out commissions to the archive.
- Advise the editorial team and wider business on how to source and use imagery legally, including up-to-date best-practice guidance around how images should be formatted and credited on the Time Out website.
- Organise photoshoots, including location and stylist searches and bookings, organising hair and make-up, planning and arranging props, and any other pre-production planning that might be required.
- Manage the Staff Photographer’s calendar and bookings, ensuring they align with the editorial team’s content calendar.
- Develop robust relationships with photography agencies.
- Commission photographers when required.
- Carry out in-house photography as and when required.
- Support the Staff Photographer on photoshoots by helping to style shots and set up lighting.

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, you’ll want to
- Be commercially astute
- Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced digital-first company
- Think globally
- Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
- Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
- Be a team player

**About our culture**

As our cities have reopened, we have embraced a hybrid way of working that gives us the opportunity to work remotely, as well as from the office; offering the flexibility that brings many benefits to our lives, as well as still providing a space where we can connect and collaborate as part of our Time Out community.

**About Time Out Group plc**

Time Out Group is a global media and hospitality business that inspires connection and joy by capturing the soul of the world’s greatest cities through its two divisions - Time Out Media and Time Out Market.

Time Out launched in London in 1968 with a magazine to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city. Today, Time Out’s professional journalists curate the best things to do, see and eat in 333 cities in 59 countries.

Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. From cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures the soul of the city.

The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into the most popular destination in the city with 4.1m locals and tourists visiting in 2019. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion in North America, with Time Out Market opening in five major cities in 2019: Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago and Montreal. In 2021, Time Out Market expanded into the Middle East with Time Out Market Dubai, and more Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline including Porto, London, Prague and more.

Time Out Group was named International Brand of the Year 2021 in the Campaign Publishing Awards - awarding bravery, editorial innovation and forward thinking. While Time Out Market won the Most Innovative Food & Beverage Concept Award at the Global RLI (Retail & Leisure International) Awards 2021.