Junior Content Photographer

Summary

The Junior Content Photographer plays a key role in showcasing Buckle’s product and brand by assisting with the creation of visual content through striking high-quality imagery. This Teammate will collaborate closely with the Marketing and Design Teams to craft visual content for digital platforms, print materials, and social media channels. The Teammate in this role will develop their skills in a dynamic and creative environment while helping to ensure the Buckle brand and its visual identity is communicated consistently and effectively.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This description intends to describe the general nature and level of work performed by Teammates assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Photo Shoots and Inventory Management

• Assist with organizing and managing the timeline and schedule for both studio and on-location photoshoots.
• Assist with lighting setups, backgrounds, and props to achieve the desired visual aesthetics for each shoot.
• Keep track of inventory and report any equipment issues or needs to the senior team members.
• Organize digital photo library, ensuring easy access and efficient cataloging of images.

Content Creation and Collaboration

• Follow campaign direction to capture secondary brand assets for all marketing channels, including on-figure supplemental content, social content, and off-figure flats.
• Assist with editing photos to meet Buckle standards, ensuring consistency in style, tone, and quality across all content, ensuring optimization for both web and print usage.
• Stay informed on the latest photography trends, techniques, and technology to enhance content quality. 

General

• Fulfill mission statement by performing job duties with a high level of customer service while contributing to a positive team spirit.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university (degree in Photography, Visual Arts, Marketing, or a related field is preferred) and one to two years of professional experience in content photography, ideally in retail, e-commerce, or similar environments; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.) is highly preferred; experience with other image-editing software is a plus. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Teammate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the Teammate is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  The Teammate is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The Teammate must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Ability to operate a motor vehicle and complete errands based on business needs.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the Teammate regularly works in an office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Buckle is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified Teammates from the available workforce in the communities we serve.

Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Buckle, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination and retaliation because of veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, color, national origin or ancestry, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable local, state, or federal law. For state specific information, refer to the Teammate Center.