Photographer (On-Staff) - Automotive/Motorsports, Bay Area (California)
APEX Wheels
- Pleasanton, CA
- $50,000-75,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Use our social media & forum presence to seek out vehicles we need, and work with their owners to schedule shoots.
- Travel all over the Bay Area and beyond to interesting, unique locations.
- Ensure that our brand values are effectively communicated through photography.
- Be a courteous and professional host, making our volunteers feel comfortable, appreciated, and glad they reached out
- Talk with vehicle owners during shoots who may or may not already be customers. You’re comfortable explaining the technical aspects of our wheels while helping promote our brand.
- Help take our website, forum threads, social media, and technical articles to the next level with crisp, stunning visuals.
- Work closely with our sales and marketing teams to deliver photos that clearly articulate the intended concepts in our guides and tech articles.
- Make fast, precise edits as needed, such as changing a wheel color, lowering a car, removing rock chips/vehicle imperfections, removing/adding stickers, etc.
- Work with the marketing team to help create digital and print ads.
- Upload photos to our host with the appropriate tags, titles, and descriptions so that they can be easily found by customers as well as other members of our team.
- Install prototype wheels on to client's car and properly torque lugs to spec when putting the original wheels back on.
- Help keep track of our sample wheel and tire inventory.
- Help sell off sample wheels and tires by creating sale listings and meeting with potential buyers.
- Assist our video team in many ways such as setup/teardown, lighting, driving the camera car, keeping our presenters on-topic and following the script, monitoring audio levels, etc.
- During off-shoot time, contribute to and work through a catalog of projects.
- Seek out and arrange your own photoshoots within guidelines.
- Positively contribute to ROI by utilizing your time and skills wisely and recommending areas for change.
- Proactively propose, seek out, and organize creative projects to achieve and consistently maintain a full-time workload.
- Achieve and maintain high performance and quality standards while maintaining productivity and budgetary expectations for your assigned projects.
- Track your time and effort going into each project so that we can determine which projects have the highest ROI and biggest customer impact.
- Opportunities for additional video work as skills develop and are proven.
- Must be a huge car nerd and motorsports enthusiast.
- Professional/commercial photography experience preferred.
- Passionate about car photography, and interested in the world of video.
- Can demonstrate their experience and talent by providing a meaningful portfolio of automotive photography.
- Fluent in the fundamentals of photography: lighting, depth of field, framing, polarizers, etc.
- Able to produce both artistic and technical interpretations of the same concept.
- Great at being mobile and can produce consistent results in any given location with various lighting conditions.
- Continuously leveling up their photography education. Always learning new things and engaging with other photographers.
- Streamlined with their organizational workflow. We may need you to re-edit a photo months or years after it was taken.
- Well-versed in creating effective visuals for social media posts. You never forget the vertical.
- Willing to get their hands dirty and use tools, not just their camera.
- Your own main gear: 24+ MP camera, tripod, off-camera lighting. We provide specialized gear.
- Must be able and familiar with the safe and proper procedure used for lifting a car and removing/installing wheels.
- Videography experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience running a youtube channel, facebook/instagram page preferred.
- Graphics design experience preferred.
- Full-time position $25 - $34 per hour depending on experience but flexible for the right candidate.
- Employee Medical, dental, and vision benefits are 100% company-paid.
- Company contributions towards spouse/partner and dependent Medical benefits.
- 401k with employer matching.
- Paid vacation and sick leave, and paid holidays
- Support your track addiction with reimbursements for HPDE and autocross event registration fees.
- Dedicated track car available for staff to drive at HPDE events.
- Full access to our shop with lift and tools to work on your car.
- Eligibility for the SEMA college grant and loan forgiveness program.
- Casual dress environment where T-shirts, jeans, and shorts are welcome.
- Get employee discounts and freebies on APEX products and schwag.
- Participation in company activities including karting, track days, VR sim racing, and more.