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Picture Desk Editor
Getty Images. Receive and edit editorial content for the global market under constant deadlines .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Receive and edit editorial content for the global market under constant deadlines
- Ensure accuracy, editorial integrity, quality, and timely distribution of editorial content
- Prioritize tasks according to relevancy and deadlines in collaboration with a global editing team
- Exercise news judgment and maintain awareness of current and trending global news, sports, and entertainment events
- Remotely edit live news events, ensuring image and metadata quality and speed to market
- Maintain the GettyImages.com homepage using CMS programs to showcase featured stories
- Monitor real-time trending stories and engage appropriate imagery on marketing and social media platforms
- Collaborate with photographers, assignment editors, field editors, and technology teams
- Troubleshoot and report technology issues involving photographers, clients, and internal support
- Curate and highlight top images on social media, marketing platforms, and GettyImages.com
- Serve as a decision-maker, problem-solver, and final gatekeeper of editorial integrity
Requirements
What you’ll need- Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in the editorial photography industry
- Extensive knowledge and journalistic interest in current affairs, including celebrity, popular culture, news and sport
- Ability and desire to work a flexible shift pattern, with non-traditional hours, including weekends and holidays, between 6.30am and 11pm
- Proficiency in Windows or Mac OS-based systems and applications
- Experience with industry-standard editing tools, Adobe Photoshop, and digital asset management (DAM) software
- Demonstrated knowledge of industry-style captioning and IPTC metadata standards
- Excellent journalistic writing, copy-editing, English writing, spelling, and grammar skills
- Solid picture judgment with a commitment to editorial integrity
- Ability to engage with appropriate imagery on Getty Images’ social media handles
- Strong understanding of photo usage rights and licenses
- Ability to multitask accurately and efficiently in fast-paced, high-pressure breaking news situations
- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well in a remote team environment
- Frequent communication via Slack, Zoom, email, and phone
- Experience with Adobe Premiere or video editing tools is a plus
Benefits
Comp & perks- Company-paid holidays and time away from work
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the ability to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market
- Leadership development
- Diversity and inclusion training
- Mentoring programs
- High potential program
- Professional and skills development
- Global morale events and local gatherings
- Employee Resource Groups
- Access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours
- Hybrid-working environment