Editor/Photographer, Sport

Editor/Photographer, Sport

Location: Los Angeles, Chicago (Hybrid)

Type: Full-time/permanent

Who You Are:

As a talented editor and aspiring sports photographer, you’ll play a vital role in editing and capturing both stills and video content that fulfills the needs of our organization. While your primary focus will be on editing, this role offers the opportunity to develop your photography skills, working with the best sports photographers covering everything from domestic sporting events to globally significant spectacles like the FIFA WorldCup and the Olympic Games. Working with our award-winning team, you’ll be part of our editorial and commercial sports coverage on a global scale. A good knowledge and passion for domestic and international sports, coupled with technical proficiency in digital photography, photo editing, metadata management, and troubleshooting across PC and Mac platforms, will be essential for success.

Your Next Challenge:

• This full-time position combines sport editing with event photography, designed to support the progression of the successful candidate towards a full-time photography role. As an editor, you’ll work closely with our sports editing team to deliver high-quality results for live events and client projects. This role balances remote work with in-office and on-site opportunities, allowing you to gain hands-on experience, from editing the work of our globally distributed team and building towards photographing events alongside our leading content creators. The fast-paced, deadline-driven environment requires a focus on editorial quality while meeting client needs.
• Editing and Content Creation Responsibilities:
• Edit editorial and commercial content remotely, in-office, and on-site at sporting events.
• Prepare content for global distribution with skills in photo editing software, metadata application, and FTP management.
• Ensure timely uploads of images to multiple platforms, including websites and client destinations.
• Collaborate with the Managing Editor during group edits, ensuring cohesive teamwork and meeting deadlines.
• Collaborate with onsite teams (editors, photographers, freelancers), ensuring that workflows align with the event scale and tight deadlines.
• Cultivate a collaborative environment that encourages respect, open communication, and a positive culture where every team member feels valued and supported.
• Develop photographic techniques and proficiency to enable to create content for the needs of our clients and customers.
• Proactively collaborate with senior photographers to improve your abilities behind the lens.
• Cultivate partnerships with industry organizations and athletes.
• Foster collaborative relationships internally and externally.
• Technical proficiency in camera setup, remote operation, FTP transmission, and networking.
• Work towards capturing industry-leading content in both stills and video across various contexts, including sports events, action shots, features, and studio/portraiture work.
• Availability to cover events at a moment's notice.
• Flexibility to work internationally and domestically for extended periods.
• Event Coverage:
• As an essential part of our editorial sports team, you’ll take on a wide range of responsibilities as dynamic as the sports world itself. Through editing and capturing key moments from major sporting events, you’ll help produce content with global resonance. Working alongside our top editors and photographers, you’ll benefit from mentorship and guidance that will help you develop and refine your skills.

What You’ll Need:

• Strong editorial skills, with a command of JPEG & RAW workflows, photo editing, and metadata management.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with a customer-focused mentality.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and an ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Proven time-management skills with the ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel domestically and internationally, often during evenings and weekends (valid passport required)

Deadline to apply is December 13th.

There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame. 

We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world. 

Working at Getty Images 

Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals. 

We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work. Our flexible time off policy is above industry standard. We offer premier benefits with options including above-market competitive medical, dental, vision, health plan savings accounts, life and disability plans, global employee assistance programs, legal, pet, home, and auto coverage at preferential group rates and discounts, as well as retirement and financial education and tools. Full-time employees working at least 25 hours per week are eligible for these programs and health benefits on the 1st of the month following their date of hire.

Getty Images Holdings, Inc is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market. 

Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours. 

Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal-opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.