Sr Photographer
Job Description
Title: Sr. Photographer
Reports To: Sr. Creative Director
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
About American Eagle
American Eagle is a youth culture brand grounded in denim. Our purpose extends beyond making the best jeans–we embrace self-expression, culture, optimism and connection. Through the brand platform Live Your Life, we empower our community to be who they want to be all while wearing the clothes that make them most confident.
Get to Know the Role:
American Eagle Outfitters is looking for an extremely experienced and creatively driven fashion photographer with an extensive portfolio to lead photography in our e-commerce photo studio.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven understanding of the women's and men's fashion industry and the ability to raise the creative bar through commercially relevant imagery, lighting and dynamic creativity. The ability to work within and across large, interdependent teams is a must, so the right person will have an understanding of the balance needed between creativity, communication, and collaboration. This role owns the end-to-end creation of photographic imagery — from shoot execution through lighting, color, sets, posing, editing etc.— ensuring the American Eagle brand is represented with consistency, quality, and momentum across platforms. The ideal candidate is a professional photographer with strong instincts, a commercial eye, incredible communication skills, and the ability to operate efficiently in a fast-paced fashion environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Take direction from Creative Director and collaborate on daily shoots with team members to follow style guides and produce consistent on figure product shots for American Eagle e-commerce and lifestyle photography in studio.
- Continually meet seasonal deadlines while maintaining established brand standards.
- Become the primary expert on all studio production software and analytical tools.
- Assume responsibility over all studio sets and EQ to maintain camera, lighting, and grip equipment.
- Routinely improve and document all studio processes in centralized formats.
- Work with studio creative leads to continually evolve shoot creative direction with the ever changing trends.
- Shoot supplemental assets as needed for email, stores, and web sets.
- Manage the second fulltime photographer and any freelance photographers brought in.
- Manage the Product Photographer and advance the shooting of accessories and shoes.
- Manage the fulltime digitech team and any freelance grip, lighting, and digitech’s brought in.
- Participate in the photography of still life assets and product flats.
- Assist in location scouting.
What You Bring:
- Online portfolio that demonstrates expertise and judgment in the applied techniques of on-figure fashion photography (composition, lighting, capture, and processing), as well as pre-production and post-production steps.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in commercial ecomm studio photography. Applicant should possess expert knowledge of Canon Pro series camera systems and glass including care and maintenance best practices.
- Applicant should be an expert in lighting with both flash & continuous systems including Broncolor, Profoto, Aputure, Nanlux, and ARRI; be able to execute ‘natural light’ and ‘blended light’ scenarios and possess knowledge of care and maintenance best practices.
- Applicant is an expert in standardized e-commerce photography & lighting practices including metering and color balancing.
- Applicant is an expert in CaptureOne Studio tethered capture and possess essential troubleshooting skills for common software bugs and have a working knowledge of MacOS and CaptureOne compatibility.
- Applicant is an expert in basic photo retouching practices with proficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
- Applicant is proficient in Figma collaborative design tool.
Perks: Why You’ll Love it Here
- Generous Associate Discount: Treat yourself to the best our brands offer!
- Summer Fridays (For Pittsburgh, NYC and Remote Corporate Associates): More time for the sun and the weekend between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
- Casual Dress Code: Come as you are (and stay comfy).
- Hybrid Schedule: Enjoy a blend of home-office focus and in-office collaboration.
- In-Person Connection: While we love our digital tools, we love our people even more! To keep our culture thriving, in-person presence is required at one of our Pittsburgh or NYC headquarters, distribution centers or field locations for interviews, orientation and periodic quarterly meetups.
- FOMO (Fun Office Moments Only) Events: Exciting company-wide events you won’t want to miss!
AEO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
PAY/BENEFITS INFORMATION:
- Actual starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to relevant experience and location.
- Subject to eligibility requirements, associates may receive health care benefits (including medical, vision, and dental); wellness benefits; 401(k) retirement benefits; life and disability insurance; employee stock purchase program; paid time off; paid sick leave; and parental leave and benefits.
- Paid Time Off, paid sick leave, and holiday pay vary by job level and type, job location, employment classification (part-time or full-time / exempt or non-exempt), and years of service. For additional information, please click HERE.
- AEO may also provide discretionary bonuses and other incentives at its discretion.