Sr. Manager, Photo - Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, and Dormify

Location: Richmond, CA, United States

You will have the opportunity to work with management on budgets, create and implement policies and procedures, work cross-functionally with partners across the brand, track metrics, and oversee the seasonal calendars and creative style guides.

 

Responsibilities

• Working with and support Director of Creative Services to recommend and carry forward all new process and procedures for shot list, digital tech guidelines, calendar, milestones, and providing analytics to leadership

• Ensuring the studio team is following and adhering to the style guide as well as recommendations for improvements on look/feel as the brand evolves and changes.

• Partner with Director of Creative Services to maintain, develop, and evolve process to streamline workflow and introduce AI tools

• Work with Creative Director of Digital Production and Color Manager to align on process, procedures and workflow between photo studio and color room

• Partner with the AI Creative Manager to establish best practices for shooting products to support AI post-production, including product angles, lighting, consistency, and asset requirements

• Coordinate with Creative Directors and AI Manager on AI dedicated shoot weeks. 

• Working and/or advanced knowledge of Airtable and its functionality (interfaces, automations, data layer functionality, and AI capabilities within the base)

• Serve as the traffic manager between creative, photo production, and merchandising for all the incoming shot requests, approvals, and reprioritizations

• Have a creative eye and work with Creative Director to help keep the team align with creative direction and execution of the style guide

• Establish and manage a seasonal budget including reporting for MEC

• Work to develop and evolve process efficiencies to automate daily/weekly tasks 

• Manage metrics for estimated time and shots for each season completed shots throughout the shoot and calculating the cost per shot by category

• Develop and manage direct reports to meet and exceed creative and business needs 

• Manage scheduling and budgets of freelance talent 

 

Criteria

• Previous photo studio management experience

• Previous people management experience

• Strong project management and organizational skills

• Experience working with cross-functional partners

• Worked with in-house content management systems and knowledge of ecommerce 

• Ability to perform work onsite in the Richmond, CA Photo Studio 5 days a week

 

About Us

Our Company Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Our family of brands are Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Rejuvenation, West Elm, Mark & Graham, Outward, and GreenRow. These brands are among the best known and most respected in the industry. We offer beautifully-designed, stylish and functional products for every area of the home, including the kitchen, living room, bedroom, home office, closet, laundry room and even outdoor spaces. We've seen some big changes since our first brick-and-mortar store opened more than half of a century ago. What hasn't changed is our passion for high-quality products, functional design, outstanding customer service, and enhancing the lives of our customers and the communities where we operate. Today, we're a multi-brand, multi-channel, global enterprise supported by state-of-the-art technology and some of the most talented teams in retailing - and we're always looking for new energy and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to work with management on budgets, create and implement policies and procedures, work cross-functionally with partners across the brand, track metrics, and oversee the seasonal calendars and creative style guides.