VP – Photography

VP, Photography North America

Job Description

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. 

The Role

At CoStar Group, Photography plays a critical role in bringing our products to life on behalf of our customers.  Whether visually capturing a new state of the art office building or the essence of a neighborhood, photography and video allow users to imagine what is possible.  Reporting to the SVP, Photography, we are looking for a VP, Photography for the US, who will lead and inspire a large, growing team of world class photographers.  This individuals mandate will be to continue to create compelling and impactful photo and video content across our products (CoStar, Apartments.com, LoopNet, Ten-X, Homes.com, etc.) while simultaneously leveraging operational best practices to ensure on time execution and delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Lead a team of Directors and Managers with a strong operational mindset to ensure individual metrics and quality standards are being met.
• Develop and recruit strong operational leadership to support the organization.
• Lead and organize a team of 600+ photographers to support the expansion of business and customer activity.
• Innovate on deliverables to ensure the team is producing visually appealing and impactful photography for all products. 
• Be curious about improving deliverables and act with an owner-operator mindset.
• Ensure operational metrics are in place that are aligned to, and support, business objectives as well as developing delivery standards that can be scaled across a large organization.
• Inspect what you expect.  Ensure that the team is not just reporting on activity but inspecting the teams work and activity on a regular basis and taking action when necessary to improve outcomes.
• Ensure we continue to evolve capabilities and stay on top of the latest trends by testing and adopting new hardware and software technologies impacting drone capabilities, photography, and videography.
• Collaborate with Sales leaders, Product, Research, and IT to deliver impactful media on behalf of our customers.
• Evolve on-boarding and training programs that focus on driving integration of new team members and the on-going development of photographers and managers.
• Focus on continuous improvement of workflows and processes to drive optimization and innovation.
• Create a community of photographers that bring to the table innovation, collaboration and support for the mission of digitizing the visual world of real estate. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Bachelors required and Masters preferred.
• 10+ years leading a team of photographers responsible for delivering a product against deadlines.
• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale dispersed teams (200+) against deadlines and deliverables.
• Prove track record establishing operational frameworks that aligned to achieving business goals. 
• Experience establishing operational metrics and aligning organization to execute against those metrics. 
• Proven track record driving accountability with Directors and Managers and leading in a metric driven organization.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in fast paced environment with high creative and delivery standards.
• Ability to collaborate across functional areas to deliver assignments.
• Strong communication skills required both written and including an ability to influence others through data.

About You:

• Your impressive attention to detail is a point of pride.
• You value building and leading strong teams that are focused on delivering excellence.
• You want to make great work every day and help your teammates do the same.
• You’re nimble but intentional with every effort.
• You find the right answer to a problem quickly, then move to the next problem’s answer.
• You understand the importance of brand consistency and existing guidelines but know when to break, embellish, and scale them.
• You’re self-sufficient, able to absorb and act upon objectives, feedback, and enjoy collaborating with colleagues across departments.
• You’re comfortable working independently with partners in different time zones.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing