Photo Editor (AI)

Location: Remote-USA; Field position requiring residence within a reasonable commuting distance of the assigned region or service area

Base pay: $24.80–$39.60 per hour in CA, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NY, WA, and Washington DC; $23.60–$37.60 per hour in CO, HI, IL, ME, MN, NV, OH, RI, VT, and VA.

Company

hirify.global is a U.S. real estate platform helping customers buy, sell, finance, and rent homes through digital products, services, and creative communications.

What you will do

• Curate and edit imagery across hirify.global’s brand, B2C, and B2B customer touchpoints, including selection, sequencing, cropping, retouching, and color correction.
• Research imagery across stock, commissioned, UGC, and emerging channels while managing licensing, usage rights, contracts, and compliance.
• Own image rights tracking, DAM integrity, metadata, naming conventions, archival, expiration, and governance processes.
• Manage concurrent photo projects from intake through delivery, including scope, timelines, dependencies, approvals, shot schedules, and deliverables.
• Coordinate with internal teams, external advertising agencies, photographers, and production partners to keep projects aligned and on brief.
• Explore AI-assisted image tools and emerging photography technologies to improve research, editing, rights tracking, and workflow efficiency.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of photo editing and image research experience with a consumer brand, top editorial publication, or advertising agency.
• Bachelor’s degree in Photography or a related visual field, or equivalent professional experience, with formal study in technical and creative photography foundations.
• Strong visual sensibility and experience creating cohesive visual narratives through image selection, sequencing, and editing.
• Hands-on experience managing image rights, licensing, contracts, and usage compliance within DAM systems.
• Experience in agency-led creative or large-scale production environments, including production schedules, creative reviews, client-style feedback, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S.-focused image licensing, copyright law, and usage restrictions.
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, with strong retouching and color correction skills.
• Understanding of composition, lighting, color, perspective, and storytelling across editorial and commercial photography.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, collaborative, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple projects with minimal oversight while communicating clearly in written and verbal English.

Nice to have

• On-set experience with larger advertising campaigns.
• Orange Logic experience.
• Hands-on experience managing photographers or photo shoots.
• Familiarity with large-scale and boutique stock agencies and advanced image research techniques.
• Interest in AI-assisted image tools and evolving photo technologies.
• Experience with hyper-local photography initiatives and U.S. regional, architectural, and stylistic real estate nuances.
• Knowledge of localized U.S. real estate markets for location research, virtual scouting, photographer briefs, and authentic shot lists.
• Curiosity about photography culture, emerging photographers, industry trends, and visual storytelling.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as part of a small, highly collaborative photo team within hirify.global’s in-house agency, StudioZ.
• Collaborate across creative, production, marketing, external partners, and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Field employees perform the majority of their work in a specified geographic region or service area and are expected to commute within a reasonable distance.
• Full-time employment with an inclusive, innovative workplace and opportunities to contribute to hirify.global’s real estate platform and creative ecosystem.

Hiring process

• Applicants must complete an editing skills test.