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Flex your creativity with iStock

We are the world's first affordable member-generated royalty-free stock image company with millions of photos, illustrations, video, audio and Flash® files starting at $1. The evidence of iStock is everywhere. Every time you open a magazine, check out a book cover or look at a billboard, chances are you’re seeing iStock. Everything began at our headquarters in Calgary, Canada in 2000.

We'll never make you wear a nametag, iron your khakis or pretend that only bad people have tattoos. You can wear what you want and look how you feel. We work hard and play even harder: there's Friday afternoon Rock Band sessions and more than 100 arcade games available in our snack-stocked cafeteria.

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Perks of working at iStock

Benefits worth bragging about

Competitive base salary and bonus plan.
Health and dental benefits start on Day 1.
Group RRSP matching plan for permanent employees.
Free in-office massages at your desk from our very own masseuse.
Extra health and wellness spending for glasses, snowboards or a gym pass.
Education reimbursement program to support your career related courses.
Healthy drinks and snacks provided daily, as well as an X-Box 360 and a bubble hockey table.
We're flexible, so if you need time off, just talk to us and we'll work it out.

Open office concept

You won’t find any eye-level cubicles at iStock. We believe in open spaces and tend to have candid, animated conversations. The fewer walls, the better we work together.

We love learning

We thrive off running one of the world's busiest and fastest-growing sites and we offer our employees training opportunities in many of the fields our business impacts. So whether you are interested in advanced layer-masking techniques for Photoshop, want to be an illustrator or a videographer, or just want to learn how to take a picture in focus, we're going to help.

Launched in spring 2008, iStock U is an in-house set of courses from our own experts on all kinds of visual art. You'll be immersed in a creative, web-friendly environment and we'll provide you with training to make the most of it. We’ve also been known to close early

Where art and friendship collide

If you are looking for honest feedback and an artistic group of people to work with, iStock is for you. Not only can you build great relationships with the people in the office, be prepared to meet and work with contributors and customers from all over the world. We strongly support diversity in our teams and we are very approachable.

We thank all applicants for their interest in iStock, however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

iStock is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. All candidates who are authorized to work in the country in which the job opportunity is located are welcome to apply.

Unless otherwise specified, iStock does not normally sponsor candidates for work-authorized visa classifications. Non-disclosure of the need for visa sponsorship at sponsorship at the time of application may result in rescission of any offer of employment.