Field Research Photography

Field Research Photography

**Job Description**:
CoStar Group Company Introduction:
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

We are now looking for an Architectural Photographer who will create high quality, creative photos and videos using DSLR cameras, drones, gimbals and other state-of-the-art equipment. Residential renters and homebuyers and commercial real estate owners, investors, and agents rely on CoStar to provide high-quality media to market their properties and to learn about opportunities. With 24 million people visiting CoStar’s websites each month, every day your media will drive transactions.

**Responsibilities**:

- Use your architectural photography expertise to produce interior and exterior media of multifamily, office, industrial, and retail properties.
- Create compelling exterior media for residential local neighborhoods, parks, and schools.
- Use a variety of tools to create visually appealing media including professional-grade cameras, tilt shift lenses, drones, gimbals, sliders, 3D tour cameras, and others.
- Utilize time of day, season, location and your expertise in photography to determine when and how to best photograph assignments.
- Edit all photography and video in a timely fashion resulting in a completed project.
- Professional and effective communication with clients during all aspects of media shoots including scheduling, set up and on-site interactions.
- Continued learning and development of your craft, including staying up to date on new techniques and technology.

Basic Qualifications:

- Demonstrable practical experience as a professional Real Estate Photographer or Architectural Photographer or similar
- Portfolio Review: Submit your portfolio of photos and videos which will include a selection of architectural, real estate, and exterior lifestyle media (exterior and interior photographs, videos, and drone media required)
- A minimum of a High School Diploma coupled with 4+ years professional real estate photography and videography experience.
- Full understanding of manual camera settings and lighting
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, IE: Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro
- Experience using MAC OS and MS Office
- FAA Part 107 Certification required
- Valid driver’s license and ability to rent a car if necessary

Preferred Qualification:

- Enjoys challenges of photographing buildings and neighborhoods in both suburban and city environments, understands the challenges and works to find creative solutions
- Strong relationship-building skills; ability to develop strong personal relationships with key contacts at assigned companies
- Flexible and adaptable with excellent multi-tasking and time management skills
- Used to working in fast-paced environment
- Experience of commercial drone photography is desirable
- Ability to capture and edit beautiful interior and exterior property videos and photography
- Full understanding of best practices for Architectural Photography, demonstrating artistic vision and creativity

What’s in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

- Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
- Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
- Commuter and parking benefits
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelo