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Earn guaranteed hourly pay plus commission. Top-performing Photography Sales Managers regularly earn $30-$35/hour or more through photography sales, team performance, and operational excellence.
Are you a leader who enjoys coaching teams, driving sales results, and building strong business relationships? Do you have photography experience or a passion for visual storytelling? Mom365 is seeking a Photography Sales Manager to lead a team of up to 20 photographers across up to 8 hospital locations, drive sales performance, develop future leaders, and strengthen hospital partnerships while helping families preserve their baby's first moments through professional newborn photography.
This role combines leadership, sales, customer experience, training, and operational oversight. The ideal candidate is a people leader first—someone who enjoys developing others, building relationships, managing multiple priorities, and delivering results across a multi-site operation.
What You'll Do
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of up to 20 photographers across up to 8 hospital locations to achieve sales, service, and quality goals.
- Recruit, train, onboard, and mentor new photographers.
- Drive photography sales performance and customer satisfaction.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with hospital leadership and staff across multiple hospital partnerships.
- Manage daily operations, scheduling, staffing, and performance expectations across multiple hospital locations.
- Ensure compliance with company, hospital, and safety requirements.
- Photograph newborn babies and their families, creating lasting memories.
- Deliver a warm, professional, and compassionate experience for every family.
Who We're Looking For
Successful candidates often come from backgrounds such as:
- Photography Studio Manager
- Portrait Studio Manager
- Retail Store Manager or Assistant Manager
- Wedding or Portrait Photography Business Owner
- Hospitality Manager
- Sales Manager or Team Lead
- Trainer, Coach, or Mentor
Preferred Qualifications
- Leadership, supervisory, or management experience.
- Experience hiring, training, coaching, or developing employees.
- Experience leading remote, multi-site, or geographically dispersed teams preferred.
- Experience managing multiple locations, departments, or business units preferred.
- Strong sales, customer service, and relationship-building skills.
- Photography experience preferred, especially portrait, studio, family, newborn, or event photography.
- Experience managing business operations, scheduling, staffing, or performance metrics.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable working independently in a hospital environment.
- Ability to safely handle newborns and photography equipment.
- Reliable transportation and availability to work weekends and holidays.
Requirements
- Minimum age of 18.
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Ability to perform moderate physical activity and lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to pass background checks and required health screenings.
- Ability to meet hospital compliance requirements.
Why Join Mom365?
- Guaranteed hourly pay plus commission opportunities.
- Top performers regularly earn $30-$35/hour or more.
- Opportunity to lead a multi-site operation serving up to 8 hospitals and supporting up to 20 photographers.
- Camera equipment provided.
- Fully paid training and ongoing leadership development.
- Opportunities for career advancement.
- Flexible scheduling options.
- Paid medical screening.
- Vacation and sick leave.
- Referral programs.
- 401(k) and additional benefits.
At Mom365, you'll have the opportunity to lead a team, build meaningful hospital partnerships, develop future leaders, and help families preserve some of life's most important memories.
Join us and make a lasting impact—one family, one team, and one newborn at a time.
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Behaviors
Required- Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Motivations
Required- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business
- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in photography manager jobs.
- Five or more years of professional photography experience including team or studio leadership
- Demonstrated ability to manage photo production from pre-production planning through final delivery
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Lightroom and Photoshop
- Experience working with digital asset management systems and photo library workflows
- Strong project management skills including scheduling, budgeting, and vendor coordination
- Bachelor's degree in photography, visual arts, communications, or a related field
Tips for Your Photography Manager Job Search
Tailor your portfolio to the industry
Photography managers are hired into very different environments, so a portfolio built for editorial work may not land at a retail brand. Pull examples that match the specific visual style and output of each employer you're targeting before you apply.
Quantify your team and production scope
Hiring managers want to see how many photographers you've managed and how large your shoots were. Replace vague resume language with specifics about crew size, shoot volume, and the complexity of productions you've overseen.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists photography manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by the production format you know best
Job listings often mix e-commerce, video, and still photography under one title. Read each posting carefully for the primary format, whether that's high-volume product shooting or campaign-level editorial work, and only apply where your strongest experience lines up.
Prepare a shoot breakdown for your interview
Many photography manager interviews ask you to walk through a complex production from brief to delivery. Have a real example ready that covers how you built the schedule, managed the team, handled problems on set, and hit the final deadline.
Negotiate around post-production scope, not just title
Photography manager roles vary widely in whether post-production and retouching fall under your oversight. Clarify this before accepting an offer, since managing a retouching workflow significantly affects your workload and the team size you'll need.
Photography Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most photography managers?
Mom365, CarData, and OUTFRONT Media are hiring the most photography managers right now, with openings concentrated in New York, Arizona, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Retail brands and media companies with large in-house content operations tend to post the most roles.
How many photography manager jobs are remote?
About 50% of photography manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though fully remote roles are more common in post-production oversight and digital asset management than in hands-on studio or on-location production roles where on-site presence is typically required.
How do you become a photography manager?
Start by building several years of hands-on photography experience across shoots, then move into roles that involve coordinating other photographers or managing production logistics. From there, demonstrate your ability to lead teams, manage budgets, and deliver consistent output at scale. Building a portfolio that shows both your creative judgment and your organizational track in production is what moves candidates into manager-level roles.
Can you get hired as a photography manager with little experience?
Breaking in with limited management experience is possible if you've led freelance crews, coordinated shoots independently, or supervised photographers in a junior role. Employers hiring at the entry end of the manager level typically prioritize candidates who can show real production responsibility, even without a formal manager title, so frame your resume around decisions you owned rather than tasks you assisted with.
What does the photography manager interview process look like?
Most photography manager interviews include an initial screening call focused on your production background, followed by a portfolio review where you walk through past work and explain your creative and logistical decisions. Later rounds often involve a panel with creative directors or operations leads and may include a scenario-based exercise around managing a complex shoot or resolving a production problem under pressure.
Where can I find and apply to photography manager jobs?
You can find and apply to photography manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and the type of production environment you're looking for, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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