Lead, Photography

As a Lead Photographer in the HelloFresh Studio, you lead the photography team across food, product, lifestyle, and marketing productions. You set the benchmark for photographic quality and craft while elevating team capabilities and driving continuous improvement in production excellence.

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
• 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, technical, and production challenges on set
• Actively contribute to Studio and company AI initiatives by supporting experimentation and integrating 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 need

• 7+ years of experience in commercial photography, ideally including food, lifestyle, product, and high-volume e-commerce content production
• Exceptional photography craft and technical excellence with a mandatory portfolio submission
• Deep expertise in lighting, composition, camera systems, color, production environments, and visual storytelling
• Experience operating in fast-paced production environments and collaborating across multiple disciplines and stakeholders
• Ability to elevate others through coaching, feedback, mentorship, and sharing best practices
• Expert knowledge of Capture One and strong understanding of color grading and image editing
• Ability to interpret creative briefs and translate them into practical photographic approaches
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Nice to have

• Experience leading photographers or creative production teams
• Experience with additional photography, automation, or AI-supported production tools