Photo Researcher (Refresh Team) (Contract)

About Us:
TMB (Trusted Media Brands) is the world's leading community-driven entertainment company. Our portfolio of leading brands that includes FailArmy, Family Handyman, People Are Awesome, Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home, The Healthy, The Pet Collective, and Birds and Blooms, is powered by content that is inspired and created by our fans. Engaging more than 200 million consumers worldwide, our content — available across streaming TV, social media, web, and print — sparks curiosity, fuels laughter, and inspires people to live big, full, fantastic lives. Learn more about our brands, our data-driven marketing solutions, our award-winning licensing services, and much more at  

Location: Gurgaon/Remote
Reports to: Senior Photo Researcher

About the Role:
Reporting to the Sr Photo Researcher, the Photo Researcher (Refresh Team) will work to research and select/create imagery to illustrate content published to TMB’s websites and social media channels, with a goal of enhancing the visual aesthetics of each brand’s channels, deepening engagement with our audiences and helping to create an optimized content experience.

About you:
You’re a photo editor with a great eye and graphic design skills. You have a knack for curating engaging imagery to tell a story and the ability to understand and translate a brand vision into compelling visual packages that live on the web and in social media. You have hands-on experience maximizing creative tools, you’ve worked with and/or are familiar with dynamic content platforms, and you’re always on the lookout for new tools to bring content to life across digital channels.   

Your Day-to-Day:  

• Assess the quality and relevance of existing art in refreshed content and work to make the necessary updates.
• Source/create visuals in line with the brand aesthetics that amplify the brands’ voice and visual style to illustrate website articles on a variety of topics.
• Edit, retouch and resize imagery to meet our current brand standards.
• Ensure filenames, credits and other metadata are correct and in line with brand standards across platforms, including web and social.
• Participate in team meetings.
• Collaborate and communicate with team members and outside departments to achieve organizational goals

You have:

• A bachelor’s degree in photography, graphic design or similar experience, specializing in visual assets for digital platforms.  
• An understanding of design principles and current visual trends.
• A strong portfolio or collection of work samples demonstrating your creativity and skills.
• 3-5 years’ experience in photo research and editing.
• Proficient experience with content production tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; quick to learn new platforms. 
• Collaborative work style; you’re a team player through and through.
• Can work quickly and efficiently with an organized, thorough, and deadline-oriented approach to working.  
• The ability to balance quality with quantity: finding/creating the best on-brand visuals possible in the time available.
• Ease with working on multiple assignments at the same time.  
• Worked with American brands and have an understanding of U.S. culture.

About this team:
 
Trusted Media Brands’ editors, designers, photographers, videographers, set stylists and culinary professionals create content that brings people together over the love of shared pastimes. From cooking (Taste of Home) and working on DIY projects around the home (Family Handyman) to exploring nature (Birds & Blooms) and satisfying a boundless sense of curiosity (Reader’s Digest), we’re dedicated to building communities and connections through the uplifting stories, videos and activities shared across our various media channels.

We thrive in an environment that values diverse backgrounds, talents, skills, and strengths; encourages creativity and experimentation; and recognizes and rewards the courage it takes to step outside comfort zones in the quest to grow our business.  

Trusted Media Brands embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

 
This role is offered by TMB through Jukin Media India Private Limited.