Here’s your opportunity to join a great team at our prestigious creative studio. If you are a highly skilled, talented part-time freelance photographer with experience in shooting products for retail, we want to meet you.

The photographer is responsible for creating beautiful product images and image editing. We are looking for a candidate who can show what we make to best advantage. You would be instrumental in enhancing one of the pop culture’s most popular brands, helping express our marketing messages across all channels and media. 

The position reports to the Product Development Director. Quantum Mechanix is fast paced, nimble and game changing. We work on many of the coolest properties in entertainment and pride ourselves in providing a great work environment. If you are collaborative, enthusiastic and thrive in an ever-changing, fluid environment, please get in touch.

Note: We have two office dogs, so you should be canine-friendly.

Responsibilities

• Work with product developer to style products before shooting.
• Photograph products according to company standards. 
• Name images according to QMx filename convention, process images (including retouching), seek approval before uploading images onto server in correct folder structure.
• Assist in managing company's photo database.
• Notify appropriate team members when photos are ready for use.
• Incorporate technology upgrades and new systems applicable to the position.
• Keep photo studio and equipment clean and in good working condition.
• Perform other related functions as assigned.

• Proficient with Adobe Photoshop.
• Minimum 3 years photography studio experience including minimum 1 year of digital product photography experience.
• Responsible and detail oriented.
• Ability to problem-solve independently, as well as collaborate effectively and respectfully with team members.
• Positive attitude and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to quickly prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
• Portfolio must include product photography work.
• Valid driver’s license and vehicle.

Traits We Value

• Genuine enthusiasm for great marketing imagery.
• The drive to see projects through to the end and deal with setbacks along the way.
• Collaborative mentality: ability to get things done as a team.
• High standards in creative execution and appreciation for excellence.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-confidence and composure to accept criticism, learn and apply feedback to improve outcomes.
• Resourcefulness and fearlessness in solving problems and overcoming obstacles.
• Humility and generosity of spirit.

Compensation

Competitive. Paid on a job-by-job basis.

Quantum Mechanix Inc. is a Los Angeles-based creative studio and developer of screen-accurate replicas, collectibles, apparel, artwork, and digital apps and games inspired by entertainment’s most beloved shows and movies.

We focus on serving the most demanding customers – from dedicated fans to the industry’s most prestigious production companies and studios – with the most detailed, accurate, beautifully finished products possible.

Bring to life the most beloved objects from your favorite movies and TV series. Whether it's blueprints of a legendary craft, posters that wouldn't look out of place on the set of your favorite show, the dog tags of a beloved character (or perhaps a set with your own name on them), a meticulously detailed filming miniature, or an exact replica of a hero’s sidearm, it's our job to take these fantastic objects of imagination and make them real.

QMx – Screen-accurate recreations of props and scale models, including mid-scale ship replicas and animated character figures.

QMx Press – High-quality prints, books and novels inspired by beloved science fiction TV and films. This category includes blueprints, expanded universe reference packs, and character and vehicle posters.

QMx Artisan – Hand-built models of props and vehicles. These items are produced by professional Hollywood prop-makers. Edition sizes are generally very limited.

QMx currently operates under licenses from such studios as Bad Robot Productions, CBS Consumer Products, CCP, DC Entertainment, FUNimation, Lucasfilm Ltd., Marvel, Mutant Enemy Productions, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sunrise, Time Science Blood Club, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Entertainment.