Photographer

Who We Are

Swig Life is a woman-founded and operated lifestyle brand creating premium insulated drinkware and coolers designed with women in mind. We believe everyday essentials should be as stylish as they are functional, which inspires us to create products that reflect personal style and make meaningful gifts.

Swig Life is a woman-founded and operated lifestyle brand creating premium insulated drinkware and coolers designed with women in mind. We believe everyday essentials should be as stylish as they are functional, which inspires us to create products that reflect personal style and make meaningful gifts.

As Swig Life continues to grow, our people remain at the heart of everything we do. It’s an exciting time to join our journey, and we’re looking for thoughtful, creative, and collaborative people who are ready to contribute, grow, and help shape what comes next.

The Photographer leads the creation of distinctive, consistent product and lifestyle imagery that elevates the Swig Life brand and drives customer engagement. This role combines hands‑on photography and retouching with creative leadership, workflow management, and digital asset oversight. You’ll guide photography from ideation and preproduction through shooting, editing, and final delivery while ensuring assets meet the needs of retail, wholesale, ecommerce, print, and product launches.

• Collaborate with the Creative team and cross-functional partners to plan and execute product and lifestyle photography across retail, wholesale, ecommerce, print, and other marketing channels.
• Translate creative direction, shot lists, brand strategy, and business objectives into distinctive, high-quality imagery that supports product launches and campaigns.
• Lead the shooting, processing, editing, color correction, and retouching of photography, ensuring final assets meet brand standards and are optimized for web or print.
• Contribute photography expertise during ideation and preproduction, partnering with stylists and content teams to develop executable shoot plans and provide recommendations on styling, lighting, composition, equipment, and execution.
• Drive the photography approval process with leadership and cross‑functional partners through pre‑ and post‑production meetings, reviews, and established approval milestones.
• Manage photography calendars and production logistics, including shoot priorities, locations, permits, equipment, shot volume, and studio and location‑shoot needs.
• Maintain an average production volume of 15–30 approved final images per week and deliver contact sheets, selects, and final assets according to photography calendar, prebook, product‑launch, and campaign deadlines.
• Maintain organized photography files and manage assets in Bynder, including naming conventions, taxonomy updates, uploads, storage, organization, and timely stakeholder access.
• Oversee product check‑in and checkout, maintain accurate SKU information, and ensure all required primary and supporting product imagery is completed by established deadlines.
• Oversee day‑to‑day studio operations, ensuring photography equipment, lighting, props, and work spaces are maintained and operated safely and efficiently.
• Help strengthen photography standards, lighting approaches, asset‑management processes, and studio workflows while providing guidance and training to team members and cross‑functional partners.
• Assist with photography budget planning and expense tracking and serve as the company’s primary point of contact for its relationship with Bynder.

• A creative and experienced commercial, product, or lifestyle photographer with a strong portfolio demonstrating original thinking and technical excellence.
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