Responsibilities
- Support marketing efforts on our industry-leading marketplaces, Homes.com and Apartments.com, by capturing beautiful 3-D virtual tours and footprints.
- Create a portfolio of photographs to best feature homes and apartments, utilizing photography techniques to capture the spaces in the most pleasing way possible.
- Work closely with scheduling and dispatch teams to maximize appointments and meet our client’s demands.
- Professionally communicate with clients, sales, researcher partners, and management to strategically evaluate priorities, initiatives, and tasks.
- Own the market! While not working on a residential home, navigate one-mile square grids to ensure complete commercial real estate data coverage.
Identify new inventory, missing availability, and commercial properties to be photographed.
- Abide by CoStar safety standards to safeguard company vehicle and equipment.
- Represent CoStar in a professional manner at all times.
- Participate in conference calls with sales and research teams as needed.
Physical Requirements of Position
- Repetitive and frequent sitting in a car, standing and walking for up to 8 hours per day.
- Must lift, carry, and maneuver equipment weighing up to 5 pounds
- Repetitive hand and arm movements are needed to type on a tablet or laptop and operate camera equipment.
- Occasional bending, stooping, squatting, lifting, twisting, and carrying are necessary to perform job functions.
- Ability to work and drive outside during all seasons.
- The ability to work weekends on a rotating schedule.
Qualifications :
- At least 2 years of professional experience.
- Experience working as a professional photographer, or a recently earned degree in photography.
- Strong time management skills and very detailed oriented.
- Capability to accurately capture and enter data.
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and organizational skills.
- Knowledge of Windows, Apple OS, Microsoft Office, and Internet applications.
- The ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts such as commercial real estate terminology, mapping, and GIS concepts.
- Enjoys working independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Field experience preferred.
Compensation :
The Field Researcher position is hourly plus bonus-eligible position. The bonuses are paid on a monthly cycle and are based on your performance against pre-determined performance metrics.
We are seeking individuals who thrive in a metrics and performance-based environment and who are driven by bonus incentives to produce great results.
What's In It For You?
When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to) :
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage : Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
- Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups