Freelance Photo Stylist Jobs (NOW HIRING)

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Born in Los Angeles but bred with a global perspective, G/FORE was conceptualized with a passion for modern design combined with a love of golf. Distinguished by our attention to detail, sophisticated ease, playful nature, youthful energy and sense of humor. We consistently strive to make a powerful and colourful impact on our favourite game. We take inspiration from art, architecture, modern design, and colourful narratives. Our intent is to disrupt the industry without being disrespectful to the sport and its rich traditions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Lead end-to-end studio operations, integrating both creative execution and operational efficiency across all shoots.
• Main contact of creative operations along with Sr. Photo Production Manager, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, improve throughput, and elevate output quality across all channels.
• Establish and maintain clear production calendars, prioritization frameworks, and resource allocation plans across multiple high-volume workstreams.
• Support on optimizing production workflows to support scalability and increasing content demands, ensuring seamless coordination between creative and business teams.
• Partner with studio team for Global Edit / Creative Force, overseeing asset management, file organization, tracking, and reporting.
• Proactively identify inefficiencies and implement solutions that improve speed, quality, and scalability, leveraging tools such as Creative Force, Monday, Asana, or Airtable.
• Administer the DAM ecosystem, ensuring proper metadata standards, usage rights, and asset accessibility across channels and regions.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure studio output aligns with broader brand teams, marketing, and business objectives.
• Provide guidance and support to internal studio team members and freelance resources.
• Oversee and manage high-volume production environments, set standards, manage throughput, ensuring consistent execution across concurrent projects and deadlines.
• Support budget planning and tracking monthly and annual production needs.
• Source and manage freelance talent and creative partners in alignment with brand standards.
• Oversee sample logistics and inventory processes to ensure product readiness and tracking to meet deadlines.
• Collaborative casting efforts with creative production teams to ensure alignment with brand identity.
• Manage vendor relationships, including photographers, stylists, HMU artists, and agencies.
• Lead contract negotiations and ensure proper documentation (SOWs, NDAs, agreements).
• Facilitate regular cross-functional status meetings to align on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Provide operational guidance for team to build the best-in-class studio processes and standard operating procedures.

COMPETENCIES:

• Strong balance of creative sensibility and operational rigor
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail in fast-paced environments
• Proven ability to build, refine, and scale workflows
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a high-volume production environment
• Deep understanding of brand standards and creative execution
• Proficiency in: Creative Force, Global Edit, Adobe Creative Suite, CaptureOne, Microsoft Office, project management tools (Monday, Asana, Airtable, etc.)

DESIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in the Arts, Business Management, or similar.
• 7-10+ years of experience in retail, preferably in a high-volume production environment
• Strong background in photo studio management, creative operations, or production leadership
• Demonstrated experience managing high-output content pipelines across multiple channels
• Hands-on experience across photography, post-production, sample management, and studio operations
• Proven ability to build and scale production workflows and systems
• Experience managing budgets, negotiating contracts, and overseeing vendors
• Established network ("rolodex") of photographers, agencies, stylists, and creative partners

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Peter Millar & G/FORE are equal opportunity employers. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Both Peter Millar & G/FORE prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and they afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, genetic information, marital status, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. Both Peter Millar & G/FORE comply with applicable state, county and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.