Photography Lead
UPLIFT Desk · Austin, United States · onsite
Position Summary
At UPLIFT Desk, we’re not just building ergonomic workstations—we’re shaping how people work and live. As the ecommerce industry leader in height-adjustable desks, we’ve grown by delivering innovative, customer-focused solutions that promote health, productivity, and well-being. Our success is rooted in our core values: Customer Obsession, Innovation, Accountability, and Results Oriented.
As a Photography Lead, you'll be responsible for maintaining our photography quality standards, actively participating in photography and editing, and serving as a technical resource during photo shoots. This is a senior role for someone who brings creative vision and technical depth; someone who can meet our brand standards and build the workflow that gets us there consistently. You'll work closely with our creative team, and be able to step into other photo roles to keep our production process moving. This role reports directly to the Brand Marketing Manager. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.
What You'll Bring
- 6+ years of professional photography experience with a strong emphasis on post-production; including retouching, color grading, and editing workflow management
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-end retouching, color grading, and post-production work on product and lifestyle photography
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
- Demonstrated ability to set and uphold a premium visual standard across a high-volume content team
- Solid understanding of studio lighting and enough on-camera experience to support the photographer technically and run a studio shoot independently when needed
Bonus Points For
- Experience at a DTC or ecommerce brand with high-volume content production
- Background in furniture, home goods, or premium consumer product photography
- Experience building a photography style guide or retouching SOPs
- Familiarity with ecommerce PDP image spec, web assets, and print delivery requirements
- Experience working alongside a dedicated production coordinator or ecommerce merchandising team
What You’ll Do
- Maintain and document UPLIFT Desk's photography style guide — lighting approach, color palette, composition standards, and aesthetic direction across all shoot types
- Review and approve final photography assets for quality, consistency, and adherence to established brand standards before delivery to downstream teams; including website, email, paid ads, social, and more.
- Own the end-to-end photo editing pipeline, from raw file ingestion to final approved delivery, and actively co-edit alongside the creative team on a regular basis.
- Write photography briefs for each shoot, covering shot lists, products, sets, and talent, using AI tools to speed drafting and reference gathering.
- Serve as the single point of contact for photo feedback from merchandising, content, paid media, and other stakeholders. Consolidate requests, set priorities, and route the work to the right people on the team.
- Maintain organization across the full photo workflow; including file naming and folder structure in the asset library, editing queue prioritization, and ensuring shot lists and pre-production briefs are accessible and up to date
- Provide hands-on lighting support during studio shoots and monitor tethered images in real time to catch exposure, color, or consistency issues before they reach post-production
- Step in as the primary backup photographer when the photographer is unavailable — independently directing and executing studio shoots to maintain production continuity
- Partner with the ecommerce merchandising team to make sure every product listing has accurate, complete, on-spec photography ahead of launches and catalog updates, and verify that images are live in the correct PDP slots and channels.
- Optimize and deliver final assets for every platform (web, mobile, print) in the correct file format, dimensions, and naming convention required by BigCommerce and the CMS.
Benefits
- A merit-based environment that rewards growth and accomplishment regardless of seniority
- Generous paid time off
- 4% 401K company matching with instant vesting (after one year)
- Excellent group health insurance available to employees and dependents, including domestic partners (medical plan, 2 dental plans, and a vision plan to choose from)
- Flexible spending account (FSA) for health care and child care costs
- Company-paid & Supplementary Life Insurance; Long-term & Short-term disability
- Free UPLIFT Desk (after one year)
- 50% discount on all UPLIFT products
- Free healthy (and not so healthy) snacks and drinks
- On-the-job training and skills development
- A supportive and engaging work culture that promotes healthy living
Position Details
- Compensation: $75,000/DOE
- Type: Full-time
- Employee Status: Regular
- Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm, 40 hours per week
- Location: Austin, Texas 100% onsite
About UPLIFT Desk
As a fast growing, mid-sized Direct To Consumer (DTC) brand company, it’s our mission to deliver sincere, world-class customer service. We provide optimally designed, quality office solutions to customers. We focus on happier & healthier customers and employees!
UPLIFT Desk has revolutionized the way people shop for office furniture. It all starts with our award winning UPLIFT Standing Desk, made even better when accessorized with our entire UPLIFT office furniture line. Our product line includes most furniture an office could need. We design office products that optimize customers’ comfort, health, and productivity. Our Product Development team focuses on designing the highest quality ergonomic office furniture. Then our Content team's ecommerce website offers customers the ability to configure products specifically to their needs. Our amazing Order Processing and Warehouse teams make sure we have inventory and ship orders the same day. Customers receive award winning support from our Sales and Customer Service and Warranty teams. We offer the best 15 year warranty in the business! Our Interior Design and Contract Sales teams specialize in large office furniture layouts for commercial buildings that serve most Fortune 500 companies.
Award winning UPLIFT Desk is loved globally!
- Rated Best Standing Desk by New York Times Wirecutter 9 years in a row
- Hundreds of thousands of happy customers around the world sit and stand at an UPLIFT Desk
- Google reviews - 4.9 rating with thousands of reviews
We value our environment:
- We plant 5 new trees in U.S. National Forests for every solid wood desk sold. By partnering with the National Forest Foundation, we're able to plant tens of thousands of new trees each year
- Solar powered operations: Our Austin facilities produce over a megawatt of electricity through roof-mounted solar panels on three large warehouses
- We use sustainable materials in our products. Some examples are:
- Bamboo Desktops, Drawers, & Motion Boards: The world's fastest-growing plant, Moso bamboo is a grass that grows as quickly as an inch an hour
- Eco Curve Desktops: Eco Curve desktops use 100% recycled MDF and have the lowest carbon footprint in the industry due to not using edgebanding, backer boards, adhesives, or solvents
- Rubberwood Desktops: Pará rubber trees produce 99% of the world's natural rubber latex. The rubber production lifespan of these trees is exhausted after about 25-30 years. Our rubberwood desktops give the trees a second life
Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)
UPLIFT Desk believes in building an organization whose staff reflects the true diversity of our community. We hire, promote, and reward employees based on results and professional performance. UPLIFT Desk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, creed, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, p