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Flex your creativity with iStock

It's not every day you get to say that your company started a whole industry. That's right, in 2001 iStockphoto pioneered the micropayment model — the idea to sell affordable art contributed by a community of both professional and amateur artists from all over the planet. This made us the world's first affordable member-generated royalty-free stock image company with more than 3 million photos, vector illustrations, video footage and Flash files for sale. And we do it all from right here in Calgary.

One of the coolest parts of working for iStock is that you get to see the results of your work each time you open a magazine, check out a book cover or look at a billboard — our imagery is everywhere. We will never make you wear a nametag, iron your khakis (you can wear what you want to), or pretend that only bad people have tattoos. It's a fun place to work, we like to work hard and play hard and at some point early on, you will be challenged to a game of Guitar Hero, so get practicing.


Working At iStockphoto


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Awesome Benefits

We won't let you work yourself to death either — office bowling parties and mini golf outings are mandatory.

We've been proud to offer great benefits ever since our staff was small enough to fit in a minivan. As we've grown, we've stayed ahead of the curve.

  • Competitive wages with benefits that start on Day 1.
  • Group RRSP plan for full-time employees.
  • We pay your Alberta Health Care premiums.
  • Free in-office massages from our very own masseuse.
  • Extra health and wellness spending for glasses, snowboards or a gym pass.
  • Extra non-taxable health account for medical costs outside our benefit plan.
  • Get more personal time off by banking your overtime hours.
  • We're flexible, so if you need time off for any number of reasons, come talk to us and we'll work it out.

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Learning and Development

iStockphoto was built by creative, daring people who did things other people said would never work. It's taught us to trust and invest in our employees, strive to challenge ourselves, and do our best to think outside the box.

We love the challenges that come with running one of the online world's busiest and fastest-growing sites. We offer our employees training opportunities in all the areas our business touches. 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 this spring, iStock U has in-house courses from our own experts on all kinds of visual art. You'll be immersed in a creative environment at the leading edge of the creative web-development world, and we'll provide you with training to make the most of it. It is quite common to lock the doors early and break out the camera for impromptu photo shoots too. Each department has a budget for work-related courses, so if you are keen to learn, we are willing to support your growth.


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Open Office Concept

You will not find many offices or cubicles at iStock. We believe in wide open spaces and tend to have open, animated conversations. The fewer walls we have, the more people are "in the know."

We work in the trendy design and antique-rich neighbourhood of Inglewood, a few blocks east of downtown Calgary. There's constant inspiration in our hood, where you actually have to cross the train tracks to enter our freshly renovated turn-of-the-century office building called LocalMotive Crossing.


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We're All Friends

If you are looking for honest feedback and a cool group of people to work with, iStock is for you. Not only can you build great relationships with the people in the office, you better be prepared to meet and work with contributors and customers from all over the world. Chances are if you have been working here for a while, you will soon have a welcome mat waiting for you in almost any country that you travel to. We strongly support diversity in our teams, all of our resources are very accessible and teamwork is key to making iStock roll.


Available Jobs


  1. Applications Developer
    We're always growing and we need your help. PHP gurus are always welcome.

  2. Quality Assurance Tester
    Can you break our software? We have an immediate opening for a full-time Quality Assurance Tester.

  3. Multilingual Client Relations Representative
    How many languages do you know? We want to support people from all over the world and we could use your help.

  4. Search Engine Editor
    We have full-time and part-time opportunities right now!

Note: All of our current opportunities are for iStockphoto's headquarters, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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

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