Hopscotch Interactive is a leading provider of real estate marketing and media services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2015, we are looking to augment key staff with the following role, which will take on the management of the company's residential and commercial photography services business. This is a new role and will anticipate that it may evolve over time. Bringing your creativity, but also your absolute passion for keeping things on track in a world where deadlines, weather, and even the most random things can upend a schedule in our dynamic business. The person who will thrive most in this role will be a creative services veteran, or have run their own company or played that MVP operations manager role, and for whom the business side is more attractive than the creative side. We work with preconstruction and post renovation (build out) clients and realtors, so we have some overlap into construction, but more than 50% of the shoots are considered listing and/or marketing shoots that will be be used on the MLS and across all real estate marketing channels for commercial and residential.
The Business Manager will support the team in the following areas:
Management: Management of photography business for real estate including current and new business
Budgeting/Revenue Management: Working with bookkeeping and accounting to keep accounts paid up and invoices sent
Strategy: Developing and implementing business strategies, production strategies, and workplace procedures
Performance: Evaluating company performance and employee performance, and monitoring performance over time
People: Hiring new employees, conducting training and evaluations, and motivating workers
Communication: Ensuring communication between management and employees
Budgeting: As needed - preparing annual budgets and ensuring the company meets its financial goals
Compliance: Ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures
Safety: Ensuring workplace safety
Growth: Finding new opportunities for growth in the market
Skills required:
Time management
Project management
People management
Attention to detail oriented
Excellent client communicator and internal communicator
References from previous clients and colleagues
Deadline driven
Excellent written and verbal communication
Quickbooks
Familiarity with creative services and/or past experience with videography, virtual tours, photography, or drone photography
Additional Qualifications:
Interest in photography, videography, real estate, experience with the world of commercial or residential real estate leasing and sales. Familiarity with modern communication systems like #Slack, Whatsapp, Email, Phone, and all Google Drive/Desktop publishing software. Lightroom, Photoshop, Gusto, YouTube, Social Media.
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Work Experience with a minimum of 3 years of work experience in an office setting and managing at least one person.
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred
This position is 100% remote/work from home. Must live in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area as the majority of our work is in the Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco Area.
Please send your current resume or LinkedIn Profile, and Statement of Interest via the Craigslist link. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!