Lead, Photography (x/f/m)
Lead, Photography (x/f/m)
Art der Beschäftigung: Vollzeit
81.500 € – 101.000 € (von XING geschätzt)Vor OrtAktiv auf der SucheLead, Photography (x/f/m)
Über diesen Job
Lead, Photography (x/f/m)
Category Marketing, PR, & Communications Location Berlin, Berlin, Germany
At HelloFresh, our mission is simple: to change the way people eat, forever. As a global digital-native FMCG company and the world's leading mealkit provider, we are transforming the traditional food supply chain through a data-driven, on-demand model that enables scalable and more sustainable food delivery. The HelloFresh Group includes eight brands serving customers across multiple meal occasions, including HelloFresh, Green Chef, EveryPlate, and Chefs Plate, as well as ready-to-eat meals from Factor and YouFoodz, meat and seafood subscriptions through Good Chop, and pet nutrition with The Pets Table. Through technology, data, and culinary innovation, we deliver personalized food experiences to millions of households worldwide.
The role
As a Lead Photographer in the HelloFresh Studio, you are part of our Photography team, working across food, product, lifestyle, and marketing productions. You are first and foremost an exceptional photographer with deep technical and visual expertise, setting the benchmark for photographic quality, craft, and production excellence across the Studio.
You lead through expertise, influence, and example, helping elevate the capabilities of the photography team while maintaining high standards across large-scale asset production. You play a key role in developing photographic talent, evolving ways of working, and driving continuous improvement.
You collaborate closely with Producers, Styling, Culinary, Post-production, and Creative teams to deliver high-quality and scalable visual production across multiple brands. You stay up to date with industry developments and actively support AI direction, experimentation, and content generation initiatives within the Studio and broader organization, helping translate new technologies into practical production workflows.
What you’ll do
- Lead by example and continuously raise the bar for photographic quality and execution across the Studio
- Execute and oversee food, product, lifestyle, and marketing photography to the highest commercial standards
- Coach, mentor, and support photographers through feedback, knowledge sharing, and hands-on guidance to elevate overall team capability
- Define, maintain, and continuously improve photographic standards, shooting guidelines, and best practices
- Work together with Studio leadership to improve production quality, studio efficiency, and scalable ways of working
- Collaborate closely with Art Direction, Styling, Culinary, Post-production, and Creative teams to ensure strong and consistent visual execution
- Support complex productions and solve creative and technical and production challenges on set
- Drive consistency across large asset volumes while maintaining visual excellence and operational efficiency
- Actively contribute to Studio and company AI initiatives by supporting experimentation, developing practical use cases, and helping integrate AI-supported and hybrid content creation workflows
- Act as a trusted expert and escalation point for photographic quality, technical decision-making, and production excellence
What you’ll bring
- You are a seasoned photography professional with 7+ years of experience in commercial photography, ideally including food, lifestyle, product, and high-volume e-commerce content production
- You demonstrate exceptional photography craft and technical excellence. Providing a portfolio is mandatory
- You have deep expertise in lighting, composition, camera systems, color, production environments, and visual storytelling
- You have experience operating in fast-paced production environments and collaborating across multiple disciplines and stakeholders
- You naturally elevate others through coaching, feedback, mentorship, and sharing best practices
- Experience leading photographers or creative production teams is a plus
- You are highly influential, collaborative, and comfortable aligning stakeholders without relying on hierarchy
- You have a strong production mindset and continuously look for opportunities to improve workflows, quality, and efficiency
- You stay current with developments in photography, visual production, and AI-supported content creation, and understand how to apply new technologies in a practical production environment
- You have expert knowledge of Capture One and strong understanding of color grading and image editing. Experience with additional photography, automation, or AI-supported production tools is a plus
- You can interpret and deconstruct creative briefs and translate them into practical photographic approaches, balancing creative intent, production realities, and visual quality
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills in English
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About HelloFresh
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!
We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.
To learn more about what it's like working inside HelloFresh, follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at:
- Europe:EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com.
- APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com
