Photography Manager

Trove Brands is looking for a highly experienced Photography Manager to lead our in-house Photography and Retouching teams and continue elevating the quality of imagery across our portfolio of brands.

This is a hands-on leadership role overseeing an already talented team responsible for lifestyle, campaign, studio, product, and e-commerce/PDP imagery. We are looking for an accomplished commercial photographer with deep expertise in lighting, composition, color, and visual storytelling who can both lead people and actively contribute to the work.

The Photography Manager will regularly shoot projects, participate in creative and pre-production meetings, partner with art directors and brand teams, and help set the creative and technical standard for photography across Trove Brands.

Key Responsibilities:

• Further lead, mentor, and develop our in-house team of photographers and retouchers.
• Actively photograph lifestyle, campaign, studio, product, and other brand projects as part of the team's regular workload.
• Participate in creative reviews, kickoffs, pre-production, shot planning, and project meetings.
• Partner with art directors, producers, designers, and brand teams to translate creative concepts into strong photographic execution.
• Set and maintain a high creative and technical standard across all photography.
• Develop lighting, composition, camera, and capture approaches for productions.
• Provide creative direction, technical guidance, and feedback to photographers and retouchers.
• Oversee Retouching and maintain strong alignment across capture, color management, post-production, and final delivery.
• Ensure PDP and product imagery is consistent and accurately represents product color, materials, and finishes.
• Help improve photography, retouching, studio, and quality-control workflows.
• Support resource planning across internal photographers, freelancers, and external partners.
• Evaluate equipment, lighting, technology, and tools that can improve quality, efficiency, and creative capability.

Required Qualifications:

• Significant professional experience in commercial photography.
• Strong portfolio across lifestyle, product, studio, campaign, and/or brand photography.
• Deep expertise in professional lighting, composition, camera systems, and studio photography.
• Strong creative judgment and ability to work across different brands and visual styles.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or providing creative direction to other creative professionals.
• Strong understanding of retouching, color management, and post-production workflows.
• Ability and desire to remain actively involved in shooting while leading a team.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance creative quality with production timelines, volume, and business needs.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Previous experience as a Photography Manager, Photo Director, Lead Photographer, or similar role.
• Previous people-management experience, particularly with photographers or retouchers.
• Experience leading an in-house photography or creative studio team.
• Experience working with established consumer, lifestyle, retail, or e-commerce brands.
• Experience with Capture One, Adobe Photoshop, tethered capture, and professional color-management workflows.
• Experience with high-volume PDP/e-commerce photography and product color-accuracy workflows.