Studio Manager

LHH is currently recruiting for a Studio Manager for a permanent opporutnity with our client in the Dallas, TX area. This role will manage schedules, resources, budgets, and production workflows to deliver high-quality creative assets on time and on brand. The ideal candidate brings experience managing both photography and video production, a strong operational mindset, and the ability to coordinate creative teams and cross-functional partners. Retail experience is preferred. This is a hybrid role at our client’s office in the Dallas area.

Responsibilities:

• Manage daily photo and video studio operations, including production calendars, studio bookings, staffing, equipment, and resource allocation.
• Oversee production from intake and pre-production through shoots, post-production, approvals, and final asset delivery.
• Partner with creative, marketing, and other stakeholders to clarify briefs, define deliverables, and align production priorities with business needs.
• Build and maintain shoot schedules, production timelines, and budgets; communicate changes and resolve scheduling or resource conflicts.
• Coordinate photographers, videographers, producers, stylists, editors, freelancers, and external production partners.
• Manage studio readiness, equipment maintenance, props, product samples, and organized production spaces.
• Establish clear processes for asset naming, file organization, version control, quality checks, and handoffs.
• Track production progress, spending, and capacity; identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency without compromising creative quality.
• Support consistent brand standards across photography and video deliverables.
• Manage vendor relationships and help maintain a safe, collaborative, and well-organized studio environment.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in studio operations, creative production, or production management, including experience managing a photo and video studio.
• Strong understanding of photography and video production workflows, including pre-production, on-set coordination, editing, retouching, and final delivery.
• Experience managing production schedules, budgets, resources, and multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to coordinate internal creative teams, freelance talent, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail.
• Familiarity with project management platforms, digital asset management systems, and creative production tools.
• Experience supporting a retail brand or working in a retail-focused creative studio highly preferred.
• Ability to work hybrid at our client’s office in the Dallas area.

If this role sounds like a fit for you and you meet the above qualifications, please apply now for consideration.