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# Picture Desk Editor at Getty Images

- **Company:** Getty Images
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/gettyimages/a0c337a8-44d4-44b0-b75f-71fcb4dfd9a3

## Job description

You have a passion for pictures and a commitment to upholding editorial integrity. You thrive in the fast-paced, 24/7 world of entertainment, news, and sports, working accurately and efficiently under deadlines with a remote team. You are a self-starting, multitasking team player who can also assume individual responsibility for issues as they arise. You have excellent news judgment and are fluent in social media. You want to work for one of the world’s leading creators of content with some of the world’s best editorial photographers and videographers

Picture Desk editors are trusted decision-makers, problem-solvers, and the final gatekeepers of editorial integrity. They are responsible for receiving and editing editorial content for the global market under constant deadlines while ensuring accuracy, editorial integrity, quality, and timely distribution. As the centralized hub for various departments, the Picture Desk collaborates daily with photographers, assignment editors, field editors, and tech teams to maintain a high standard of quality. Editors curate and highlight our top images on social media, marketing platforms, and the GettyImages.com website. This is a production-focused job, and working weekends, and holidays is required.

Your Next Challenge:

- Accurately and quickly review and edit images to meet Getty Images guidelines with a commitment to editorial integrity
- Prioritize tasks according to relevancy and deadlines in collaboration with a global editing tea
- Exercise solid news judgment; maintain a high level of journalistic knowledge and awareness of current and trending global news, sports, and entertainment events
- Remote edit live News events, ensuring image and meta data quality as well as speed to market.
- Maintain a regularly updated [GettyImages.com](http://GettyImages.com) homepage with CMS programs to showcase featured stories
- Monitor stories trending in real-time and engage with appropriate imagery on Getty Images’ marketing and social media platforms
- Troubleshoot and report technology issues both externally with photographers and clients and any internal support

What You'll Need:

- Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in the editorial photography industry
- Extensive knowledge and journalistic interest in current affairs, including celebrity, popular culture, news and sport
- Ability and desire to work a flexible shift pattern, with non-traditional hours, including weekends & holidays, between the hours of [6.30am](http://6.30am) and 11pm
- Proficiency in Windows or Mac OS-based systems and applications
- Experience with industry-standard editing tools, Adobe Photoshop, and Digital asset management (DAM) software
- Demonstrated knowledge of industry-style captioning and IPTC metadata standards, excellent journalistic writing, and copy-editing skills
- Excellent English writing, spelling, and grammar skills
- Solid picture judgment with a commitment to editorial integrity
- Ability to engage with appropriate imagery on Getty Images’ social media handles
- Strong understanding of photo usage rights and licenses
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment accurately and efficiently with high-pressure breaking news situations while maintaining thorough attention to detail
- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a remote team environment
- Experience with Adobe Premiere or video editing tools a plus

Physical and Mental Demands & Requirements:

- Frequent communication with others to exchange information on Slack, Zoom calls, email, and over the phone
- Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting
- Frequent repetition of motions and gestures that may include the wrists, hands, and fingers
- Constant multitasking, troubleshooting, and assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment
- Working non-traditional hours in a shift pattern, including weekends &holidays

The Editorial team provides our customers with premium, differentiated visuals across news, sports, and entertainment that cover real people, events, actions, and facts. We also grow and maintain one of the world’s most extensive archives of socially significant, historical photos, footage, and prints.

There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame. We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world.

Working at Getty Images Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals.

We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work.

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market.

Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours.

Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

## About Getty Images

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Getty Images is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, offering a full range of content solutions including royalty-free images, editorial stock photos, video footage, and music licensing.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: GETY)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 1995
- **Founders**: Mark Getty, Jonathan Klein

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Stock photography, visual content licensing, digital media
- **Target customers**: B2B (creative professionals, media, enterprises, small businesses) and B2C (via iStock and Unsplash)
- **Mission or purpose**: To move the world with the right image, video or illustration – powering commerce and ideas, and connecting audiences through powerful visual content.

## Products & Services
- **Getty Images**: Premium rights-managed and royalty-free images, video, and audio for creative, editorial, and commercial use. Includes one of the largest privately-owned photographic archives.
- **iStock**: Affordable, royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, video, and audio aimed at small businesses and individual creators.
- **Unsplash**: Free, high-resolution stock photography platform, supported by a community of photographers and used by millions of creators.
- **Getty Images MCP Server**: Developer tool that connects AI assistants and applications directly to Getty’s creative and editorial libraries via a standardized MCP integration, enabling licensed content access for AI-powered products.
- **Custom Content**: Bespoke photography and video production services for brand campaigns.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.6 billion (as of October 2024)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $981.3 million (latest full year); FY2026 Q2 revenue $229.1 million
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Koch Equity Development (lead investor in venture rounds), JP Morgan Chase (lead in post-IPO debt), Getty family (36.7% ownership)
- **Growth Signals**: Launched Getty Images MCP Server for AI integration; adopted generative AI tools trained on permissioned content with indemnification; covers over 160,000 news, sport, and entertainment events annually; workforce of 3,442 employees across 101 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vast content library**: One of the largest and best privately-owned photographic archives, with millions of images dating back to the beginning of photography.
- **Exclusive partnerships**: Works with over 583,000 content creators and 350 content partners.
- **Generative AI leadership**: First major stock photography company to offer commercially safe generative AI tools trained on permissioned content, including full indemnification.
- **Multi-brand ecosystem**: Serves all customer segments through Getty Images (premium), iStock (mid-market), and Unsplash (free/community).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Expanding developer tools (MCP Server) and generative AI capabilities to make licensed visual content accessible to AI agents and platforms.
- **Content diversification**: Continuing to grow coverage of news, sports, and entertainment events globally.
- **Customer experience**: Enhancing end-to-end creative process with AI-powered search and custom content solutions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes creativity, diversity, and inclusion with employee resource groups (ERGs), generous parental leave, adoption assistance, and family medical leave.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace – employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work with flexible typical on-site time.
- **Perks**: Performance bonuses, employee discounts, commuter benefits, free snacks and drinks, legal assistance, and customized development tracks.
- **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack including Angular, AWS, and C#; opportunities to work on AI/ML and developer tools.
- **Global presence**: Offices in Seattle (HQ), New York, Los Angeles, London, and more; remote-friendly with employees across 101 countries.

## Sources
1. [gettyimages.com](https://www.gettyimages.com/careers)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/gettyimages)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/getty-images)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getty-images)
5. [sec.gov (via search results)](https://www.sec.gov) – FY2026 Q2 filing data

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