Part-time Product Photographer

**Help people create homes they love**. Join the Urban Barn team as a **Part-Time Product Photographer**.

With over 50 retail stores across the country, Urban Barn is a national retail chain offering high-quality furniture and home décor. We’re passionate about making our customers and our employees feel right at home.

**This is a part-time position to work 8 hours per day, 3 days per week.**

**Availability on Monday is a requirement. The other two days must be between Tuesday - Friday (no weekends)**

**What You’ll Do**
- Set up lighting, and composition for all merchandise, ensuring the quality is consistent, represented accurately, and in line with brand guidelines.
- Photograph all products for our website as well as for signage, advertising, and social media and deliver assets according to scheduled timelines and direction.
- Working alongside Brand Stylist, produce consistent images that accurately represent color and proportions of products.
- Photograph, retouch, and color-correct images within a color managed workflow, and crop product images as needed.
- Manage and maintain studio equipment, including calibrating monitors.
- Manage studio lighting effectively to photograph products with a wide variety of sizes, shapes and degrees of reflective finishes.
- Produce test shots with a variety of options to choose from when implementing a new process in how the item/category is to be featured.
- Work alongside Purchasing Coordinators to organize and set up weekly shot list.
- Maintain and update lists and trackers for photography and file images in appropriate folders.

**Who You Are**
- You have an eye for detail.
- Flexible to adaptable to change.
- Able to express ideas and thoughts clearly and concisely in both oral and written communication.
- You demonstrate willingness to take on additional responsibility, change and challenge status quo.
- You build positive working relationships with associates at all levels (demonstrate approach ability, develop trust, and show respect)
- Proactively recommend and implement process improvements and solution by using creativity and ingenuity to overcome obstacle.
- Respectful and positive team player who is ready, willing, and able to accept any challenge.
- You have a passion for home décor and interior design.

**What You Bring**
- Post-secondary education in Photography or field experience.
- Strong working knowledge/experience of DSLR camera and studio lighting equipment and techniques.
- Previous experience with product photography and working in studio is a requirement.
- Strong working knowledge of image retouching and color correction in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
- Comfortable with Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to work well independently and with a team.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Demonstrated organizational communication skills with a keen eye for detail.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Experience in Retail, Interior Design or home furnishing is an asset.
- Experience with commercial or website photography is an asset.

**Why Join Urban Barn**:

- We don’t just sell home décor’ we help furnish life’s biggest moments
- $27-30/hour
- Fixed schedule - 24 hours per week
- A 40% discount on Urban Barn products
- Opportunities for professional development and advancement
- We offer a fun work environment with a collaborative team that loves to talk design

Urban Barn offers a welcoming environment where inclusion, diversity, and equity are paramount. We are committed to creating and strengthening a culture of respect and openness in all our stores, warehouses, and offices.