Photographer​/Designer

Overview

The Columbus Blue Jackets Photographer/Designer plays a hands-on creative and production role as part of the Blue Jackets holistic Media & Content team. This position is responsible for capturing, producing, and delivering high-quality visual content that supports digital, marketing, branding, and storytelling initiatives across the organization’s owned channels. Working closely with content, marketing, sponsorship, and production partners, the Photographer / Designer helps execute day-to-day content needs while ensuring creative excellence, brand consistency, and alignment with overall content strategy.

The Columbus Blue Jackets Photographer/Designer plays a hands-on creative and production role as part of the Blue Jackets holistic Media & Content team. This position is responsible for capturing, producing, and delivering high-quality visual content that supports digital, marketing, branding, and storytelling initiatives across the organization’s owned channels. Working closely with content, marketing, sponsorship, and production partners, the Photographer / Designer helps execute day-to-day content needs while ensuring creative excellence, brand consistency, and alignment with overall content strategy.

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Capture compelling photography-based content that tells the story of the Columbus Blue Jackets across games, practices, events, community initiatives, and business operations
• Touch up and edit captured assets for use across social media, digital platforms, website, email, and marketing campaigns
• Collaborate daily with content, marketing, sponsorship, and production teams to execute content plans and deliverables
• Support real-time and quick-turn content needs in fast-paced and live event environments
• Maintain brand standards, visual consistency, and quality across all content deliverables
• Organize, archive, and manage photography assets within established workflows and systems
• Assist with creative ideation and execution informed by platform best practices, trends, and performance optimization insights

Job Knowledge
- Competent in required job skills and knowledge; exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills; keeps abreast of current developments; requires minimal supervision; displays understanding of how job relates to others; uses resources effectively.

Dependability
- Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Design
- Generates creative solutions; translates concepts and information into images; uses feedback to modify designs; applies design principles; demonstrates attention to detail.

Communications
- Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.

Innovation
- Displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; generates suggestions for improving work; develops innovative approaches and ideas; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.

Judgement
- Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions.

Planning/Organizing
- Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops…