Team Photographer Job at PWHL in Boston

Professional Women's Hockey League Photographer

The Professional Women's Hockey League delivers world-class competition and fosters meaningful connections with fans and communities through operational excellence, purposeful partnerships, and a focus on long-term sustainability. We are dedicated to cultivating a workplace and league culture rooted in integrity, innovation, and inclusion, on and off the ice.
Position Summary

The Boston Fleet is seeking a skilled photographer to capture high-quality images of home games, practices, and team events. This role is responsible for photographing, editing, and delivering professional images for use across PWHL and Boston Fleet platforms, including social media, marketing, and communications. The position will provide coverage of all home games, approximately four practices per month, and approximately four team events per month. The photographer will work closely with the team to coordinate coverage and ensure timely delivery of images. The successful candidate is expected to provide their own camera equipment and editing software.
Key Duties & Responsibilities

Photograph Boston Fleet home games, capturing game action for both teams and delivering edited images during and after each game for team and league social media platforms.
Photograph scheduled practices, training camp, media day, community appearances, and other team events.
Capture player personalities, behind-the-scenes moments, and storytelling content for use across social media, websites, apps, and player platforms.
Edit and deliver high-quality images that meet PWHL brand standards, uploading content to Greenfly and other designated sharing platforms.
Develop and maintain a consistent photography style for the Boston Fleet, including creating Lightroom presets to ensure visual consistency across delivered images.
Collaborate with team and league content staff, partners, and visiting team photographers to coordinate photography needs, shot lists, and game-day logistics.
Organize and deliver images with consistent file naming and metadata to support the PWHL photo archive.
Maintain and manage photography equipment and editing software to ensure high-quality content production.
Support additional photography assignments and occasional travel as required by team and league needs.
Required Qualifications

Minimum of 2 years of sports photography and editing experience for digital platforms.
Proficiency in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Access to professional camera equipment, lenses, and editing software suited to indoor arena sports photography.
A portfolio demonstrating previous sports photography experience.
Ability to edit and deliver high-quality images within tight game-day deadlines.
Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required by the team schedule.
Availability to cover home games, practices, and team events, including training camp beginning in mid-November.
Ability to work on-site in the Boston area as required.
This position is based in the United States. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The PWHL does not provide work visa sponsorship for this role.
Preferred Qualifications

Experience photographing professional or collegiate hockey.
Previous experience working with professional sports teams, leagues, or athletic organizations.
Experience with Greenfly or similar content-sharing platforms.
Ability to work collaboratively with team staff, players, and other stakeholders in a fast-paced sports environment.
Compensation

This position is compensated on a per-assignment basis, with the following rates:
Marketing Day:

$700 USD per assignment
Home Games:

$500 USD per game
Practices:

$175 USD per practice
Other Team Events:

$175 USD per event
Photography coverage will be scheduled in advance based on the Boston Fleet's game, practice, and event schedules. Compensation will be based on completed assignments.
Benefits

This is a seasonal, part-time position and is not eligible for the PWHL benefits package, other than benefits provided by law, such as earned sick time. The Professional Women's Hockey League is committed to equal opportunity, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for this engagement without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or Veteran status, or any other protected class. A background check will be conducted once a successful candidate is identified.