Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture, and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to improving it: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. We'll continue to recruit the best founders and creators to join us in this mission, with more additions like HuffPost to come.

Business Area: Content
Job Category: Editorial
Hourly: $25.00// 20 hours a week

Uniton Status: Non-Union

BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Role

BuzzFeed is searching for a part-time (20hr/week) photo contractor to assist the editorial teams for BuzzFeed.com. The person in this role will field photo requests from staff writers, manage external purchases from photo agencies, track budgets as needed, and approve photo usage on BuzzFeed.com, among other responsibilities. Applicants should expect to yield requests from writers in a prompt manner via our internal messaging system, work with outside vendors to source images, have base-level knowledge of legal photo right usage, and track all photo usage accordingly.

The ideal candidate is on the pulse of trending photo needs, including pop culture, entertainment, and celebrity features. Experience working with photo agencies and sourcing hard-to-find images is required.

This is a project-based role with the possibility of an extension in either the Los Angeles or New York offices, or remotely in select states. It is available to start immediately. This role will require someone to work PST hours, typically between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. PST unless otherwise specified.

You Have

• An eye for all things photo
• 1-3 years of experience
• Extremely organized and efficient
• Experience working with photo agencies
• Highly proficient in Slack + remote workflows
• Experience tracking down hard-to-source photos
• Experience working with digital asset management teams is a plus

To Apply

• A short explanation of why you would be a good fit for this role
• Your resume

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

You can expect:

A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions

Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning @ BuzzFeed team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Part time, For contractors, Work experience placement, Immediate start,

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