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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Job Description | Photography Services Director</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Photography Services Director — Onsite with Global Auction House Client</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Location</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: New York</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Reporting to</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Global Business Director</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Type</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">: Full-time, Onsite</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">About the Role</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We’re looking for an experienced and highly organised Photography Services Director to join our global creative production agency team, working onsite with one of the world’s leading auction houses.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Reporting into the Global Business Director, this role will be responsible for leading and elevating photography delivery across all the client’s regions, including London, New York, Paris, Hong Kong and CEMEA. The Photography Services Director will oversee global photography standards, operational consistency, technical excellence, team development and service delivery across lot photography, campaign photography, video capture, offsite shoots, event photography, portraiture and photography-adjacent studio operations.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">This role sits at the intersection of photography, luxury, production and operations. The ideal candidate is a senior photography leader with deep technical expertise, strong operational judgement and the ability to manage complex teams, workflows and stakeholder relationships across multiple markets.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The successful candidate will bring a refined eye for quality, a calm and practical leadership style, and the ability to balance creative ambition with the pace, precision and process requirements of a high-volume global production environment.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Global Photography Leadership</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Lead the global photography team of 28 people across London, New York, Paris, Hong Kong and CEMEA, ensuring consistent standards, processes and ways of working across all regions. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Act as the senior photography lead for the account, partnering closely with the Global Business Director, Global Production Director, Regional Account Directors, Photography Managers, Producers and client stakeholders.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Work closely with the client’s Global Head of Photography acting as their day to day point of contact on the account.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Provide direction, coaching and support to regional photography teams, helping to build consistency, confidence and shared best practice across all locations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Ensure photography output reflects the client’s brand, style guidelines, technical specifications and luxury positioning across all sale categories and content types.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support the continued development and implementation of global photography guidelines, ensuring they remain practical, current and consistently applied.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Photography Operations &amp; Delivery</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Oversee end-to-end photography workflows globally, including scheduling, shoot coordination, capture, asset handoff, post-production readiness, quality control and final delivery. Ensuring all global teams are working in alignment where possible.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Work with regional teams to manage capacity, resource planning and prioritisation across onsite, offsite and freelance photography support. To ensure all eligible lots and agreed content are photographed within required timelines and in line with agreed SLAs.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Oversee global delivery across lot photography, editorial, marketing and campaign photography, exhibition and event photography, portraiture, offsite shoots, video capture and simple lot video workflows.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Ensure photography studios are operationally ready, appropriately equipped and able to support efficient delivery of services.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Partner with global leads to forecast workload, identify bottlenecks and proactively resolve resource or workflow challenges.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Technical Standards &amp; Quality Control</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Set and maintain high technical standards across capture, lighting, colour, file handling, metadata, naming conventions and asset delivery.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Ensure all photography and video outputs meet the client’s technical requirements, brand expectations and agreed regional workflows.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Work closely with photographers, producers, image editors, artworkers and studio teams to improve first-time pass accuracy and reduce rework.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Oversee adherence to art handling, studio, security and process protocols across the photography team.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support the development of category-specific and regional photography guidance where needed, ensuring local nuance is balanced with global consistency.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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font-weight: bold\">Team Management &amp; Development</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Lead, mentor and develop photography teams across London, New York, Paris, Hong Kong and CEMEA.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support regional Photography Managers and Producers in building high-performing, collaborative and accountable local teams.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Identify training needs and support ongoing development across technical, operational and client-facing skills.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Encourage knowledge sharing between regions, ensuring best practice is documented and adopted globally.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support recruitment, onboarding and development of new photography team members where required.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Help build a positive, professional and collaborative culture across the global photography team.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Process Improvement &amp; Reporting</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Proactively identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency, quality, consistency and turnaround times.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Partner with the Global Business Director and Production leads to support regular reporting on photography performance, volumes, capacity, SLA adherence and operational risks.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Use reporting insights to identify recurring issues, process gaps and opportunities for continuous improvement.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Support adoption of improved photography workflows, systems and reporting tools across the global team.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Help ensure photography delivery is aligned to wider account objectives, including efficiency, transparency, quality and scalability.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Skills &amp; 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font-weight: bold\">Who are we?</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We are a creative production agency that specialises in creating high-performing content across all channels, both locally and globally, partnering directly with agencies and clients to help build brands.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Our ethos is simple: we work with super-talented people and clients to produce content that drives measurable results.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>",
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