 |
|
|
|
|
Digital Camera Reviewer
Photobird.com, the easy way to share your photos, is looking for a digital photography enthusiast who wants to write digital camera reviews once or twice a month. You must be an excellent writer and be able to shoot attractive photos, at least as good as the photos in previous reviews on Photobird.com.
You will be provided with a review template and simple instructions that will help make it relatively easy to complete reviews, very similar to previous reviews on Photobird.com. Digital cameras will be provided to you. Although you will have some input into which cameras will be reviewed, all digital cameras will not be available all of the time. The focus will primarily be on small consumer-level cameras, although large zoom and digital SLR cameras will be reviewed as well.
You must be dependable, responsible, and professional. This is a freelance, part-time job, that will take an estimated 2 to 3 hours to write each review. You will maintain the copyright on the photos you take with the cameras; therefore, you can sell the photos, for example. Of course, you must provide a license to Photobird to use the photos, and the photos you provide for the reviews must be unmodified and unretouched.
This is a telecommuting position, in which you work from the comforts of your own location. While this is a freelance, part-time position to start, we are looking to build a long-term relationship with the right person and hope to turn the position into a full-time position in the future. There are also opportunities to expand the position with additional responsibilities.
To be considered for this position, you must provide writing samples, in the form of articles, forum posts, or blog posts that you have written, and photo samples. Your writing samples don't need to be photography related, although that's preferred obviously.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Photobird staff to determine which digital cameras to review, based on consumer interest
- Ensure the camera on loan to you is maintained in excellent condition
- Shoot a minimum number and the type of photos appropriate for the reviews
- Write fair and balanced camera reviews based on the review template and guidelines
- Work with Photobird staff to build solid, collaborative relationships with manufacturers
- Edit product images as necessary to make them suitable for publishing
- Participate in the testing phase of the publishing process of each review, making adjustments as necessary
- Work closely in a small team to publish reviews on a regular basis
Requirements:
- Excellent attention to quality and detail
- Very reliable, responsible, and can effectively manage his/her own time to meet deadlines
- Takes pride in completing high-quality work on time, on a consistent basis
- Knows how to prioritize responsibilities to meet the needs of customers and the business
- Excellent, effective written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent digital photography skills
- Strong ability and proven experience writing well-written materials in a fun and friendly voice
- Passion for working on and contributing to robust, cutting-edge, innovative web sites that turn heads, generate excitement, and attracts millions of monthly visitors
- Ability and desire to learn quickly
- Ability and desire to make things right, the way they should be, to achieve our goals
- Ability to focus on, relate to, and respond appropriately to customer issues and errors
- Ability to perform well in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Ideal:
- Enjoys taking photos and learning more about how to improve photography skills
- Experience publishing content to websites or blogs
- Solid customer focus, understanding customers' needs and resolving customer issues
- Ability to see "the big picture" to recommend process improvements
- Experience editing basic HTML
- Experience with FTP, online forums, and other internet and web technologies
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Owns or has access to a digital camera
- International experience / influence
If you are interested, please send us your resume either as text or preferably as a link. Also, please answer the following questions in brief (at most, a few sentences to a paragraph for each):
1. What do you like about Photobird.com? What would you like to see improved?
2. What are some of your favorite blogs or websites? (Photography related or other.) Why do you like them?
3. What do you like about the Photobird Learning Center? What would you like to see improved?
4. What do you like about the Photobird Digital Camera Buyer's Guide? What would you like to see improved?
5. Which website writes the camera reviews you like the most? Why do you like their reviews?
6. List some of Photobird's competitors.
Please also send links/URLs of samples of your written work.
Back to Photobird.com / Help / About Photobird.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
