Lead Photo Editor

**JOB OVERVIEW**

We’re looking to hire a Lead Photo Editor to drive the creative direction of our high school sports portraits and graphic design projects to ensure top-tier quality across everything we produce. As our first hire in this role, you’ll help lay the groundwork for growing a team—potentially expanding to 5–10 photo editors and play a key role in shaping our editing processes, standards, and workflows.

This role requires a sharp eye for detail, strong leadership qualities, and a deep understanding of trends in photo editing and AI tools. If you're passionate about editing, excited to build something from the ground up, and ready to help lead a creative department, we’d love to hear from you!


**PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES**

- Composite solo and team portraits by cropping out athletes and enhancing background images.
- Build a library of photo elements that we can pull from to enhance all future portraits
- Build a catalog of graphic design templates for schools to pick from for their team pictures, season schedule posters, social media posts and facility banners.
- Hire, train and mentor new hires to uphold our standards.
- Manage the team, review their work, and maintain overall quality control.
- Keep up with the current trends such as implementing AI tools and advanced Photoshop techniques to keep designs fresh and innovative.


**ABOUT OUR COMPANY**

Elevation Point is a media production company based in Chicago, Illinois. We’ve been producing promotional videos and 360° virtual tours for K-12 schools across the United States for the past ten years and we’re now expanding into sports portrait photography by running photo shoots (AKA “Media Days”) for high school athletic departments. We’ll composite these pictures into cinematic portraits for families, as well as promotional materials such as team photos, posters, banners, and social media graphics for the school. Our goal is to make students look like pro athletes and high school programs feel like professional organizations—delivering the same level of quality you'd see at the collegiate or professional level.

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**RAISES & BENEFITS (all rates in USD)**

1) RAISES - This position will receive an annual 7% performance-based raise until the maximum hourly rate of $6.50/hr for this role has been reached. This position will then receive an annual 3% inflation-based raise after that point.
2) 13TH MONTH PAY - Every December, pro-rated for the average number of hours worked each month.
3) PAID TIME OFF (PTO) - 8 days after 6 months of work and 16 days each year after 12 months + 1 day for each year the employee's been with the company (up to 25 PTO days total). Each day will be counted as 8 hours long at the employee's average hourly rate.
4) HEALTH INSURANCE - $15/month after 12 months of work.
5) SOCIAL SECURITY - $25/month after 12 months of work.
6) MATERNITY/PATERNITY LEAVE - 20 days at the employee's average hourly rate.


**QUALIFICATIONS**

- 5+ years of experience in photo editing
- Very Detail Oriented
- Excellent English communication skills – you’ll be making a lot of training videos
- Must have normal color vision (i.e. not be color blind) You’ll be asked to take a quick test.
- Someone who’s genuinely passionate about photo editing — this is a leadership role where you’ll help shape the culture, energy, and work ethic of the entire team.
- Experience with tools like Midjourney or built-in Photoshop generative AI tools is a strong plus
- Leadership experience is preferred but not required—we’re open to someone with the right traits and potential. Prior experience mentoring others or managing a team, especially in a creative or startup environment, is a definite plus.
- A powerful computer that can handle processing large picture files and simple video motion graphics:


**HOW TO APPLY?**

To apply, please send us a message directly through this platform (OnlineJobs.ph) and submit all the following:

1) RESUME – Send us a copy of your latest CV/resume

2) INTRO VIDEO – Record a 1–2 minute video explaining what attracted you to this position and why you think you’d be a great fit.

3) PORTFOLIO / WORK SAMPLES – A total of 10 samples showing your best work.

- 5 photo editing examples – These should show how you enhanced or composited a photo (e.g., before-and-after background changes, color grading, retouching).

- 5 graphic design examples – These should feature text and vector-based designs you created (e.g., posters, social media graphics, or layouts using typography and vector elements).