Overview
Location: Twickenham
Hybrid Working: 3 Days in the Office
Salary: £36,000-£40,000 Depending on Experience
Wonderly, an award-winning progressive content marketing agency and part of the Haymarket Media Group, is recruiting for a Picture/Licensing Editor across our portfolio of clients. The role involves working at the heart of the editorial and creative teams, sourcing, clearing rights, and negotiating fees for visual assets across print, digital, and social media. Acting as the bridge between teams, photographers, and stock agencies, ensuring all visuals are high-quality, legally compliant, and within budget.
Responsibilities
* Visual storytelling: Proactively finding powerful images via commercial stock libraries, private collections, archives, and independent photographers to hit specific briefs.
* Licensing & Rights Negotiation: Securing, clearing, and negotiating reproduction rights and fees with photo agencies, artists, and photographers.
* Legal Compliance & Risk Management: Ensuring all visual content complies with copyright laws, and image rights (including model/property releases) to avoid legal pitfalls. Understanding when we can assign copyright to clients or advising clients on additional rights usage.
* Budgeting & Administration: Managing image budgets, processing invoices, raising Purchase Orders (POs), and keeping accurate financial records of licenses.
* Technical Compliance: Ensuring all sourced images meet resolution standards (300 dpi for print, 72-144 dpi for web) and use the correct colour profiles (CMYK vs. RGB).
Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria
* Experience: 3–5+ years in photo research, picture editing, or syndication.
* Technical Proficiency: Good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, DAM systems, and CMS platforms.
* Knowledge of Copyright Law: Strong understanding of UK and international image rights, licensing agreements, and artist rights.
* Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate best prices and contract terms.
* Fast-Paced Working: Capable of working under tight deadlines, managing multiple projects, and working as part of a team.
We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria. To be considered as part of this initiative, please ensure you indicate if you have a disability when applying for the post. If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@haymarket.com.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
* Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ days
* Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments
* Generous contributory pension scheme
* Health Cash Plans: coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more
Equal Opportunity and Diversity
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to ensuring all candidates have the same opportunity to succeed, regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, or disability.
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