Portrait Booth Host

What you’ll do

• Pick up the kit, set it up clean, and test it before doors open.
• Face the room. Greet guests right away, invite groups in, help them pose, get as many photos as possible.
• Keep an eye on lighting and framing all night. Booths get moved.
• Take a few setup and behind-the-scenes photos and videos for our social.
• Verify every photo uploaded, pack it how you found it, check the kit back in.

Who you are

• Fun, charismatic, and kind. Consistently, not just for the first hour.
• Coachable. You expect feedback and you use it.
• Comfortable on your feet for 6+ hours with a good attitude.
• Able to lift cases up to 80 lbs into your vehicle. Valid license, reliable car.
• Dressed for the room. You own business and black-tie clothes. For guys: velvet jacket, white shirt, bow tie, black dress shoes, and properly fitting clothes.

What it pays

• $25/hr while you train. $35/hr once you’re trained and can host events on your own.
• Training time is paid, including the videos, the studio practice, and your first events with a lead.
• $25 for each kit pick-up and each drop-off.
• Driving to far events: $25/hr plus fuel. Overnights: lodging booked for you, meals reimbursed.
• Get a shoutout by name in a Google review: $50.
• Meet someone at an event who wants to book us? Send them your personal link. $50 for every event that books through it, paid when it books.
• Paid every two weeks through Gusto. Everything above is in writing before your first event.

Full detail in How We Pay.

1. Step 1

   Apply

   Fill out the short form on the role you want. Tell us where you’re based, when you’re available, and what you do for fun. Photographers: send your work. We reply to every applicant.

2. Step 2

   Phone screen

   A real conversation, not a script. What do you do now and why? Why us? When are you available, and how far will you travel?

3. Step 3

   References

   If we like the conversation we ask for three references from current or past coworkers, and we actually call them: what was it like to work with you, and would they hire you again?

4. Step 4

   Offer in writing

   Role, responsibilities, and pay rate, in writing.

5. Step 5

   Onboarding and training

   Paid training: the videos, a quiz and a hands-on day at the studio. You read and sign The Standard before your first event.

6. Step 6

   Shadow an event

   Work an event as an apprentice.

7. Step 7

   Work

   First event, then the next.