Editorial Photo Retoucher
ABOUT US
Fashion Nova is the world’s leading trend-to-market fashion and lifestyle brand with high-growth categories across its Women, Men, Kids and Beauty divisions. Renowned for delivering the most-wanted styles to millions worldwide, Fashion Nova earned the title of the Top 5 Most-Searched Fashion Brand on Google in 2022, alongside Louis Vuitton and Nike.
Founder & CEO Richard Saghian launched the brand in 2006, from a retail location in Los Angeles. After multiple store openings, Saghian launched the e-commerce website for Fashion Nova in 2013, pioneering a disruptive social commerce model of affordable, on-trend, size-inclusive clothing online– powered by an innovative, social media-first marketing strategy.
Today, Fashion Nova has amassed over 40 million social media followers, with annual sales of approximately $2 billion!
The brand’s name has been featured in chart-topping hit songs by Cardi B, Drake, 21 Savage, Saweetie, The Game, Tyga and Offset and its styles have been worn by many celebrities, artists and athletes including Meg The Stallion, Ice Spice, Chris Brown, Floyd Mayweather, Rick Ross, Kourtney Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Editorial Photo Retoucher is responsible for elevating campaign, social, homepage, and special project imagery to a premium, fashion-forward standard. This role ensures all photography reflects a cohesive, aspirational brand aesthetic while maintaining realism, texture integrity, and speed.This position sits within Creative and works closely with Art Directors, Photographers, Designers, and Social.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Retouch and upload product photography images
- Manipulate, adjust, and swap colors on products while maintaining natural texture, shadows, and lighting integrity
- Create multiple color variants of a single product image as needed for product lines or promotional use.
- Match product images to physical color samples and style guides for visual consistency across channels.
- Name and maintain digital asset file|structure organization
- Retouch high-volume fashion imagery across Campaign, Social content, Homepage banners, and Special projects
- Strong understanding of modern editorial fashion retouching
- Ability to balance polish with grit depending on campaign direction
- Skilled in color theory and cinematic grading
- Understands the difference between Commercial catalog retouching, Social-native content polish, High-fashion editorial finishing
- Ability to elevate images without losing authenticity
- Crop digital photographic images|maintain file size specification guidelines
- Ensure color consistency between image assets
- Upload assets to servers in accordance with calendars
- Strong color correction skills, matching images from different cameras
- Perform quality assurance on all images
- Responsible for completion of work to daily and weekly deadlines
- Ability to receive creative direction from the Director, Art and the Director, Creative Services, and make amends where necessary
- Demonstrate initiative and ideas to constantly improve the service of the photography team
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
- Two plus years of experience as a Photo Retoucher in a studio environment, ideally in the Fashion eCommerce industry
- Proven experience in photo retouching and color manipulation, with a strong portfolio demonstrating before-and-after examples
- Strong knowledge of color theory, with the ability to perform color corrections, adjustments, and creative color grading to enhance product imagery.
- Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite and Photoshop
- Detail oriented, organized, and methodical approach to retouching
- Enthusiasm for exploring new techniques and ideas in pursuit of improving existing workflow
- Knowledge of studio photography and lighting practices, as well as photographic vocabulary and terms.
- Able to have a detail-oriented dialogue about the properties of a given image.
- Passionate about teamwork and team building
- Willingness to embrace giving and receiving critical feedback
- BA degree in Photography or equivalent work experience
- English, additional language(s) an advantage
- Schedule of this position: Monday – Friday | Core business hours | Onsite
BENEFITS
- New State-of-the-art HQ located in Beverly Hills
- Formalized career paths for continued professional growth
- Comprehensive health insurance across Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k match, with immediate vesting upon eligibility
- Weekly catered lunches & fully-stock kitchen pantry!
- Opportunities to travel for trade shows and vendor meetings
- Summer Fridays Early Departure
- Team bonding events and programs
- Attractive employee discounts!
Fashion Nova, LLC, and subsidiaries thereof, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are steadfast in our commitment to equal employment opportunities and pledge that these objectives are reflected in all aspects of our daily operations. We will continue to recruit, hire, train, and advance in employment qualified individuals in all job titles without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, status as a protected veteran, criminal history, or status as an individual with a disability; and shall not discriminate against any individual, any such characteristic, nor any other classification protected by local, state and|or federal law.