Photographer

Company Description Kizuna Lab is a global strategic brand consultancy that partners with ambitious brands in wellness, hospitality, sports, and lifestyle to help them become unforgettable companies. The team solves business challenges through strategy, creativity, storytelling, experience design, and community-building, focusing on brands that create memorable experiences and earn genuine loyalty. Core beliefs include treating brand as business, community as a driver of growth, and experience as a key form of marketing, all grounded in consistent, strategy-led creativity. Kizuna Lab offers services such as brand strategy, creative direction, naming, verbal and visual identity systems, community strategy, experience and customer journey design, and go-to-market planning. The consultancy works closely with founders and leadership teams, acting like embedded partners who challenge assumptions, think commercially, and build enduring systems rather than one-off solutions. Role Description This Photographer internship role at Kizuna Lab is a hybrid position based in Quito, with a balance of on-site work and some work-from-home flexibility. Day-to-day responsibilities include planning and executing photo shoots that capture clients’ brands across wellness, hospitality, sports, and lifestyle sectors. The photographer will collaborate with brand strategists and creative directors to translate brand concepts into compelling visual narratives, including content for campaigns, social media, websites, and marketing materials. Tasks also involve selecting, editing, and retouching images, organizing digital asset libraries, and ensuring visual outputs align with established brand guidelines. The role may support behind-the-scenes documentation of workshops and client engagements, contribute ideas for visual storytelling, and assist in preparing imagery for presentations and case studies. Qualifications
• Strong photography skills, including composition, lighting, and familiarity with both studio and natural environments.
• Proficiency with digital cameras, lenses, and basic studio equipment, plus comfort working on location.
• Experience with photo editing and retouching tools (e.g., Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop) and digital file management.
• Ability to interpret brand and creative direction into visual concepts that support strategic storytelling.
• Interest in wellness, hospitality, sports, gastronomy, lifestyle brands, with sensitivity to diverse audiences and communities.
• Strong organization, time management, and reliability in a hybrid work setting (onsite in Quito and remote).
• Clear, respectful communication skills and ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary creative and strategy teams.
• Relevant coursework, portfolio, or prior project experience in photography, visual communication, or related fields.