Senior Editor, Sport

Senior Editor, Sport

Location: London, UK (Hybrid)

Type: Full-time/permanent

Who You Are:

As Senior Sports Editor, you will guide our Sport editing team in delivering exceptional results across live sporting events and client projects. Your role will be a blend of remote, in office and onsite work, including event support, team leadership during group edits, and ensuring timely global content distribution. Working in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment, you will balance editorial excellence with customer satisfaction.

You’ll be integral to our global strategy, leading editing teams supporting events on an international scale. You should bring a deep understanding of both domestic and international sports, combined with experience in efficiently editing large volumes of content while meeting client expectations. Expertise in digital photography, photo editing, metadata management, and technical troubleshooting across PC and MAC platforms will be key to success in this role.

Your Next Challenge:

• Content Editing and Distribution:
• Edit content remotely, in-office, and onsite at sporting events.
• Deliver content for global distribution, utilising advanced skills in JPEG and RAW workflows, photo editing software, metadata application, and FTP management.
• Ensure timely uploads of images to multiple platforms, including websites and client destinations.
• Collaborate with the Managing Editor to guide the editing team during group edits, ensuring cohesive teamwork and meeting deadlines.
• Oversee or collaborate with onsite teams (editors, photographers, freelancers), ensuring that workflows align with the event scale and tight deadlines.
• Act independently and confidently to ensure coverage quality and efficiency.
• Training and Mentorship:
• Assist in the training and mentor freelance editors in accordance with company standards, covering image transmission, quality, captioning, and delivery.
• Provide feedback on the editing processes to the managing editor to identify improvements, contributing to the team’s growth and excellence.
• Client Relationship Management:
• Build strong relationships with both internal and external clients, delivering exceptional customer service for editorial and client-driven assignments.
• Serve as a key liaison during commercial workflows, ensuring client needs are met.
• Foster a collaborative environment, promoting respect, open communication, and a positive culture where every team member feels valued and supported.

What You’ll Need:

• Strong editorial skills with expertise in JPEG & RAW workflows, photo editing, and metadata management.
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and client service skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills with keen attention to detail and an ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to manage time effectively and function in high-pressure situations.
• Strong leadership abilities and a passion for mentoring and developing talent.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to ensure smooth workflows and resolve technical challenges.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, often on evenings and weekends (valid passport required).

Deadline to apply is December 13th.

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.