Highlights
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. This is a hands-on, multidisciplinary role for a photographer who is just as comfortable shooting polished hero imagery as they are capturing low-fi, culturally relevant content for our social platforms.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Los Angeles, CA |
| Industry | Restaurant/Food Services |
| Salary | $65,000–$92,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 2,500 to 4,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2007 |
| Website | http://www.sweetgreen.com |
Description
sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthy communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we're committed to leaving people better than we found them. We're in the business of feeding people, and we're out to change what that means.
The Photographer & Content Specialist sits on the creative team and brings our creative vision to life through photo and short-form content across social and brand channels. This is a hands-on, multidisciplinary role for a photographer who is just as comfortable shooting polished hero imagery as they are capturing low-fi, culturally relevant content for our social platforms. You will partner closely with our art director to protect the sweetgreen identity while finding fresh ways to push it forward, and you will help us show up in culture in real time.
You will:
- 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
Desired traits:
- 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
- Organized and adaptable, able to manage high-volume work without losing quality
- A passion for photography, culture, food, sustainability, products, and trends
Desired experience:
- 5+ years of photography and content creation experience, preferably in-house
- A strong portfolio demonstrating food, product, lifestyle, and people photography
- Proven ability to concept, shoot, and edit short-form, lo-fi content for social (IG, TikTok, and similar)
- Fluency in Lightroom, Photoshop, and video editing software (Premiere or similar)
- Comfort shooting on location in restaurants, at events, and in a studio or kitchen setup
- Motion or animation skills (After Effects or similar) are a plus
What you'll get:
- Highly competitive pay + bonus plan
- Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs
- Dental and Vision insurance
- Flexible PTO plan
- 401k program
- Employee HSA and FSA
- Complimentary greens
- An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
- To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
- A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
- A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
- Free sweetgreen swag
Come join the sweetlife!
About sweetgreen
Sweetgreen is a national restaurant brand dedicated to building healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Since 2007, Sweetgreen has reimagined fast food to be fresh, flavorful, and rooted in relationships with farmers and communities. As we grow, we are committed to developing our people in our restaurants and at our support center, so that everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you not only invest in your own future but help create spaces where food, people, and purpose come together
Salary range for this role:
Starting salary range based on experience
$65,000—$92,000 USD
Sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for all employees and applicants, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service in the uniformed services of the United States, or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.
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About Company
our story
Founded in 2007, sweetgreen is a destination for simple, seasonal, healthy food. We believe the choices we make about what we eat, where it comes from and how it’s prepared have a direct and powerful impact on the health of individuals, communities and the environment. That’s why we’re building a transparent supply network, why we cook from scratch, and why we’re building a community of people who support real food.
We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.
our core values
These six core values embody our culture, spirit and dedication to doing what’s right. They keep us aligned and help us make decisions about everything from the food we serve to the way we design our stores.
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win, win, win
create solutions where the company wins, the customer wins, the community wins.
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think sustainably
make decisions that last longer than you will.
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keep it real
cultivate authentic food and relationships.
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add the sweet touch
create meaningful connections every day
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make an impact
leave people better than you found them.
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live the sweetlife
celebrate your passion and your purpose.
our mission
Our mission is to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We know that sweetgreen is a critical link between growers and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. To that end, we’re committed to supporting small and mid-size growers who are farming sustainably, to creating transparency around what’s in your food and where it came from, and to creating more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. Because here at sweetgreen, impact is not an arm of our business, it is our business, and it permeates everything we do, from what we source to who we hire and how we support local communities. We want to make an impact and leave people better than we found them, and we tailor our approach in each market to reflect the needs of the community.
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