Retouch Manager
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- Tailored Brands
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- Sep 13, 2021 Post Date
Tailored Brands, Inc.’s purpose is to help our customers love how they look. We accomplish this by providing a personal, convenient, one-of-a-kind shopping experience with compelling products and world-class service. We help fulfill this mission by providing our employees with an engaging and inclusive workplace focused on teamwork, growth and respect.
You and this Role:
- Digital Retouching/Production of high-quality work that exemplifies Tailored Brands’ standards
- Management, prioritization, and forecasting bandwidth/workload for Digital Artist Team
- Overseeing work assignments / schedules / calendars
- Mentoring and supporting direct reports with development, roles and responsibilities, and training
- Hiring and managing on-call and freelance Digital Artist staff
- Partnering with production to forecast, manage, improve workflows with external retouch vendors
- Collaboration with Marketing and Creative teams:
- Defining asset-production service levels
- Receiving and distributing creative direction, maintaining brand standards, negotiate deadlines
- Accurately and promptly delivering quality final retouched assets
- Reviewing of current processes; implementation of better tools and technologies
- Focus on retouching and editing on-figure and laydown photography in a high-volume studio
- Maintaining image quality, standards, and metrics
- Strong understanding of digital file handling, photography and graphic design
- Familiar with all product imagery and digital asset workflows
- Ensuring visual consistency of images within projects and across overall websites
- Evaluating Final Retouched Assets against imagery brand standards
- Deciphering, embracing and executing markup requests
- Ability to understand the overall brand vision/goal
- Quality control:
- Verifying color of products using physical samples and reference files
- Photoshop action sets, image resolution, color space, and image file formats
- Overseeing and reporting KPIs/metrics on a weekly/ monthly basis, meeting daily deadlines and quotas
- Partnering with Producers, Marketing Systems, and other Production partners on workflow and file management with internal systems
- Minimum of 7+ years of relevant photo retouching experience in a high-volume environment
- Advanced degree or equivalent work experience in the photography, design or related field
- Strong visual skills, attention to detail and an eye for consistency and color
- Portfolio displaying before and after retouched imagery
- Advanced retouching, compositing, masking and color correction abilities
- Experience with animated GIFs, Video, or Print are a plus
- Advanced understanding of Adobe Photoshop CC and Capture One Pro
- Photoshop scripting, automation technique capabilities, Wacom utilization
- Knowledge of Video editing, Print, and animated GIFs are a bonus
- Proficient in Mac OS, Excel, Word, Google Docs and use of FTP
- Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize.
- Exceptionally organized with the ability to complete projects against deadlines
- Effectively communicate with cross-functional partners when problem solving
- Excellent color and photographic vision
- Keen understanding of lighting, reflections and textures, and how they affect color
- Driven by both creative and technical problem-solving abilities
- Exhibits continuous desire to learn and bring industry trends and improvements to internal team and work
- Thrives in a high-volume collaborative environment, fast paced and feedback driven
- Self-reliant, proactive, independently motivated, and can demonstrate success in current role
- Desire to stay on top of industry trends including new techniques and tools to continuously push quality forward