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Location: Remote
Commitment: Full-time (40 hours/week), paid bi-weekly
About Us
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, and digital marketing. Our mission is to become the best content creators and platform for agents and brokers. We believe that great people make great things—and we’re excited to add a Digital Marketing Virtual Assistant to our team.
Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Image Enhancement: Correcting colors, adjusting lighting, balancing exposure (often using HDR techniques), and improving sharpness to make properties look their best.
- Quality Control: Maintaining consistent quality and branding across high volumes of images submitted by various photographers.
- Advanced Retouching: Performing advanced edits like removing unwanted objects (e.g., power lines, clutter), correcting perspective, and potentially adding virtual staging elements.
- Team Management & Collaboration: Managing a team of editors, communicating effectively with photographers and real estate agents to clarify expectations, and ensuring deadlines are met.
- Workflow Optimization: Implementing efficient workflows and leveraging the latest software, including AI editing tools, to streamline the editing process.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Technical Proficiency: Mastery of industry-standard editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and HDR processing software like Aurora HDR or Photomatix.
- Strong Visual Eye: An excellent eye for detail, composition, and real estate photography standards to ensure every image is market-ready.
- Experience: A degree in photography or visual arts is helpful, but significant experience in the field is essential. Many senior roles require several years of relevant experience.
- Organizational & Time Management Skills: The ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines for property listings is crucial.
- Communication Skills: Strong communication skills for providing clear feedback to team members and working closely with clients and photographers.
- Ethical Understanding: An awareness of the legal and ethical guidelines in real estate photo editing to avoid misrepresenting a property.
- Knowledge of current AI / ML photo editors like Imagen, AutoHDR, Autoenhance, Gemini, etc.
Ideal Candidate Attributes
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Results-driven: Comfortable using data and analytics to guide improvements
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Collaborative: Works well with a team, yet can manage tasks independently
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Self-starter: Takes initiative to learn new tools, processes, and strategies
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Organized: Strong time management and project coordination skills
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Adaptable: Thrives in a fast-moving, creative, and entrepreneurial environment
Compensation & Benefits
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Full-time (40 hours/week) role, paid flat rate bi-weekly
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Pay rates depending on experience
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Flexible remote work schedule (with some PST overlap when needed)
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Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling marketing team
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Collaborative culture that values creativity, initiative, and results
