Employment Type: Full-time – Remote
Schedule: Online starting at 6:00 AM Pacific Time preferred
Compensation: Paid biweekly, rate DOE
*Applications from recruiters or editing companies will not be considered.
Open Homes is a fast-growing Bay Area company providing creative and marketing services to the real estate industry. Founded in 2005 by a single photographer in San Francisco, we’ve grown into a diverse team delivering top-tier photography, video, 3D tours, floor plans, websites, print, and more. Our mission is to become the best content creators and platform for agents and brokers. We believe great people make great things.
Role Overview
We are seeking a mid-level Real Estate Photo Editor with 3+ years experience to join our fast-paced post-production team. In this role, you will apply your advanced retouching skills to ensure our properties and portraits look their absolute best.
Key Responsibilities
Real Estate Photo Editing & Retouching
- Efficiently process a high volume of images daily while maintaining our strict quality and aesthetic standards.
- Execute complex edit requests on delivered imagery as well as end to end processing (from HDR merge to finished image).
- Edit and polish professional headshots style portraits.
- Maintain a highly flexible aesthetic approach that can seamlessly match our guidance and satisfy specific client preferences.
Quality Alignment & Workflow
- Partner directly with the QA/QC team to address and resolve flagged edits on published photos, ensuring strict adherence to internal style guidelines.
- Proactively contribute to process, workflow, and stylistic improvements across the post-production pipeline.
- Escalate highly complex issues or recurring quality trends to leadership as needed.
- Create or alter actions, workflows or scripts that optimize repeatable tasks.
Qualifications
Experience
- 3+ years of relevant experience in high-end real estate or architectural photography editing, specifically thriving within a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Proven track record of handling complex photo manipulation and efficiently satisfying direct client revision requests.
- Experience with headshot-style portrait editing (including advanced skin retouching, clothing fixing, stray hair removal, etc.) is nice to have.
Skills
- Visual Eye: An exceptional eye for detail, composition, and color accuracy, with a firm understanding of ethical guidelines in real estate editing to avoid misrepresenting properties.
- Technical Mastery & Specialized Edits: Expert Adobe proficiency with deep knowledge of advanced real estate (window pulls, object removal, sky replacements, virtual twilights) and nice to have portrait editing (skin retouching, clothing fixes, background cleanups).
- Communication: Highly proficient in English (written and verbal) to collaborate effectively with our US-based team.
- AI & Process Efficiency: Experience leveraging AI technology within Adobe products and modern real estate AI platforms (e.g., AutoHDR, Imagen, Autoenhance), as well as Actions, Workflows, or scripting to speed up complex, repeatable tasks is a big plus.
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