Retouch Manager

Company: Tailored Brands
Location: Fremont
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

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

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