Sweetgreen Photographer & Content Specialist at Sweetgreen responsible for creating photo and short-form content across social and brand channels. Collaborates closely with art director to maintain and evolve brand identity.
Responsibilities
Shoot food, product, lifestyle, and people photography that brings sweetgreen’s menu, partnerships, and campaigns to life, from hero imagery for launches to everyday brand content
Concept, shoot, and edit short-form, lo-fi content for social (IG, TikTok, and similar), including lighting, styling, and composition, plus editing, music direction, color, and finishing
Capture behind-the-scenes content in our restaurants and at events, partnerships, and team moments that show the people and food behind the brand
Edit, color-correct, and lightly retouch your own work on occasion
Keep our brand image library organized by tagging, naming, and filing what you shoot so the team can easily find and reuse it
Steward the sweetgreen brand guidelines and visual systems, ensuring every image and video reflects our identity
Drive ideation to support overall creative concepts
Collaborate closely with the art director to find new ways of elevating the sweetgreen identity
A visual storyteller who understands brand voice and consistency
A self-starter with a constant desire to improve and stay innovative in an ever-evolving marketplace
Strong creative judgment, able to articulate ideas
Highly collaborative and comfortable partnering with creative leads and cross-functional teams
Qualification
Strong portfolio demonstrating foodProven ability to conceptFluency in Lightroom
Required
5+ years of photography and content creation experience, preferably in-house
Strong portfolio demonstrating food, product, lifestyle, and people photography
Proven ability to concept, shoot, and edit short-form, lo-fi content for social
Fluency in Lightroom, Photoshop, and video editing software (Premiere or similar)