Photography Manager

About the job

Trove Brands is a privately-held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco-Brite®. Our patented and best-selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading-edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style.

A career at Trove Brands is not about punching the clock. It’s about embracing exciting and fast-paced opportunities that sharpen your skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing our global reach. Your work will not only impact the company, it will impact the lives of millions of people around the world. When you step up to a career at Trove, you step up to cutting-edge excellence. You sign up for bold action and invigorating synergy. You agree to face—and break through—new challenges every single day.

Trove Brands is looking for a highly experienced Photography Manager to lead our in-house Photography and Retouching teams and continue elevating the quality of imagery across our portfolio of brands.

This is a hands-on leadership role overseeing an already talented team responsible for lifestyle, campaign, studio, product, and e-commerce/PDP imagery. We are looking for an accomplished commercial photographer with deep expertise in lighting, composition, color, and visual storytelling who can both lead people and actively contribute to the work.

The Photography Manager will regularly shoot projects, participate in creative and pre-production meetings, partner with art directors and brand teams, and help set the creative and technical standard for photography across Trove Brands.

Key Responsibilities:

• Further lead, mentor, and develop our in-house team of photographers and retouchers.

• Actively photograph lifestyle, campaign, studio, product, and other brand projects as part of the team's regular workload.

• Participate in creative reviews, kickoffs, pre-production, shot planning, and project meetings.

• Partner with art directors, producers, designers, and brand teams to translate creative concepts into strong photographic execution.

• Set and maintain a high creative and technical standard across all photography.

• Develop lighting, composition, camera, and capture approaches for productions.

• Provide creative direction, technical guidance, and feedback to photographers and retouchers.

• Oversee Retouching and maintain strong alignment across capture, color management, post-production, and final delivery.

• Ensure PDP and product imagery is consistent and accurately represents product color, materials, and finishes.

• Help improve photography, retouching, studio, and quality-control workflows.

• Support resource planning across internal photographers, freelancers, and external partners.

• Evaluate equipment, lighting, technology, and tools that can improve quality, efficiency, and creative capability.

Required Qualifications:

• Significant professional experience in commercial photography.

• Strong portfolio across lifestyle, product, studio, campaign, and/or brand photography.

• Deep expertise in professional lighting, composition, camera systems, and studio photography.

• Strong creative judgment and ability to work across different brands and visual styles.

• Experience leading, mentoring, or providing creative direction to other creative professionals.

• Strong understanding of retouching, color management, and post-production workflows.

• Ability and desire to remain actively involved in shooting while leading a team .

• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.

• Ability to balance creative quality with production timelines, volume, and business needs.

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous experience as a Photography Manager, Photo Director, Lead Photographer, or similar role.

• Previous people-management experience, particularly with photographers or retouchers.

• Experience leading an in-house photography or creative studio team.

• Experience working with established consumer, lifestyle, retail, or e-commerce brands.

• Experience with Capture One, Adobe Photoshop, tethered capture, and professional color-management workflows.

• Experience with high-volume PDP/e-commerce photography and product color-accuracy workflows.

Our culture is passionate, entrepreneurial, and energetic. We value innovation through collaboration. And while we work smart and hard, we also connect and celebrate with equal gusto. We host team-building activities, athletic events, and seasonal celebrations to foster community and reward accomplishments. Bottom line? You’ll love it here.

Among the many benefits our team members enjoy are:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care

• 401k package with employer matching

• Paid Time Off

• Maternity/Paternity leave

• Full indoor basketball/volleyball court

• Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.)

• Yoga studio

• Meditation/Nap room

• And much more!

Trove Brands is an equal opportunity employer.

Phone calls regarding this position are not accepted.

This is a fully in-office position at our HQ in Lehi, Utah.