Visuals Editor

The Visual Editor is responsible for curating and producing innovative visual content across platforms (including social, video, digital, print, experiential) that meets brand integrity and production quality standards, while remaining on schedule and on budget.

Primary Responsibilities:

Work closely with editors to understand visual/photo needs for assigned projects.

Regularly review portfolios and begin to build relationships with agencies, photographers, and food and prop stylists.

Pitch cross-platform ideas that ladder up to established brand identity and visual strategy.

Own all research, image selection, credits, and CMS upload/publication across platforms.

Support all aspects of cross-platform photo shoot production, ensuring the creative concept is upheld from brief to final delivery, including:

Curate photographer lists and create visual mood boards

Commission teams and liaise with agents, photographers, studios, stylists, hair/makeup, and other vendors throughout the project

Create and maintain timelines, schedules, budgets, shot-lists, call-sheets, and other production documents—proactively sharing and communicating this information to all key stakeholders throughout the project

Help lead on-set coordination: can lead a crew through a shot list in a timely manner, problem-solve when issues arise on set, and communicate clearly to help ensure the visual direction is executed successfully

Partner with colleagues in CNE to ensure appropriate synergy across photo and video production

Coordinate the post-production process for lo-res and hi-res photo selection and final delivery. For self-shot photos (as needed), maintain editing, processing, retouching, color correcting, and archiving of all files in an organized manner.

Contribute to tracking and maintaining the photo budget across platforms, exercising sound judgment in when to escalate to Visuals Director and/or Operations Director.

Secure contracts, photo fees, and usage rights for all images (produced and researched), in partnership with CN legal and business affairs teams.

Ensure all invoices are tracked and processed in a timely manner and that jobs are wrapped accurately and efficiently.