Senior Photographer

Some photographers spend their careers chasing the next assignment. Click. Next.

If you've spent years hopping from project to project, juggling clients, chasing approvals, negotiating budgets, and wondering whether your best work is still ahead of you, this might be your lucky day.

At Life is Good, you'll trade transactional shoots for meaningful storytelling. You'll help shape the visual expression of a brand that has spent more than 30 years spreading the power of optimism through art, apparel, and positive impact. Your work won't disappear into a campaign and be forgotten. It will become part of a larger story that reaches millions of people and helps fund programs that support children facing some of life's toughest challenges.

We're looking for a Senior Photographer who sees more than a shot list. Someone who can find authenticity in a moment, personality in a pose, and emotion in the unexpected. Someone who knows when to chase the plan and when to follow the light.

This role is for a photographer who wants to do more than capture images. You'll collaborate with designers, marketers, storytellers, and founders who still care deeply about the work. You'll help create everything from national campaigns and product storytelling to brand moments that celebrate the people who make optimism real.

If you're energized by creative ownership, inspired by human connection, and excited by the idea of joining a founder-led company where your voice - and your eye - matters, we'd love to meet you.

Help us tell stories worth remembering.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

• This application requires a significant commitment to answering specific questions. You may want to compose your answers outside of this app and paste them once you're satisfied with your composition, spelling, grammar, and tone. We can't consider incomplete applications.
• Our market-based compensation strategy determines base pay for our jobs. You can use any of the publicly available tools to predict what you might earn here. All permanent roles are eligible for an annual bonus based on company performance, to which you will make a significant contribution.
• This role is based in Hudson. You'll work on-site each week.
• Everyone who applies will get a response from a human. Although we love and use AI regularly, you're about to put a lot of heart and skill into this application and deserve a human response. You'll get one. If you don't answer the questions or meet the requirements below, you'll get a swift and kind rejection.

Pay Transparency:
We post our jobs on a collection of sites. Not all of them portray accurate information about our compensation ranges. For years, we've used a market-based approach to determine starting pay for all roles at Life is Good. We encourage you to explore reputable salary calculators like Salary.com or PayScale and, using accurate data for the apparel industry, this job (from the job description), our company size (under 300 people), location (Hudson, NH), and the required experience for this role (at least 7 years), you will see the pay range for this role.

Ready to learn more about the job? Read on...:

Requirements

What You Know and Have Done  

• You have at least 7 years of professional photo experience that included product photography (including laydowns and templates), eComm on-model photography, lookbook photography, and lifestyle editorial photography - primarily in-studio but on-location where applicable

• You are proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator) and Capture One

• You have an effective working knowledge of studio lighting, camera equipment, composition principles, and color management

• You have hands-on experience with still life, laydown, and on-figure editorial photography. 

• You have significant experience in model direction and on-set management
• You have excellent compositional skills and stay current with industry trends and visual culture 

Why This Job Exists 

You are the creative engine behind the visual story of Life is Good. In partnership with the Director of Brand Creative and the Photo Studio team, you lead and execute high-quality photo shoots that bring our brand to life across eCommerce, social, catalog, and advertising. Your work ensures that every image we publish reflects who we are — optimistic, purposeful, and distinctly Life is Good. 

What You'll Do 

• You serve as the primary photographer for on-model and lifestyle photo shoots, producing high-quality images that align to brand guidelines

• You concept and plan sets for laydowns, on-model, and lifesty