Role Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Photo Editor to join our creative team and help maintain an exceptional visual standard across our e-commerce, marketing, editorial, and digital channels. This is a fully remote position for an experienced editor who combines exceptional technical ability with a strong understanding of fashion photography, color, fabric, skin, and commercial image-making.
As Senior Photo Editor, you will be responsible for taking professionally photographed fashion and product imagery and transforming it into polished, brand-right final assets. You will work closely with our creative and marketing teams to ensure every image meets a consistently high standard while preserving the authentic qualities of the garments, models, colors, textures, and materials.
Key Responsibilities
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Retouch high-end fashion, apparel, e-commerce, lifestyle, and campaign photography.
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Perform advanced beauty, skin, hair, and complexion retouching while maintaining a natural and realistic appearance.
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Clean and refine garments, including removing distractions, wrinkles, lint, stray threads, and other imperfections while preserving fabric texture and construction.
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Perform precise color correction and color matching to ensure products are represented accurately and consistently.
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Maintain accurate representation of garment colors, prints, patterns, textures, and materials across images.
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Execute advanced masking, compositing, background cleanup, and image manipulation when required.
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Prepare images for e-commerce, website, email, social media, advertising, print, and other marketing applications.
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Maintain consistency across large image sets and seasonal collections.
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Work from creative direction and brand guidelines while bringing strong independent judgment to the retouching process.
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Collaborate remotely with photographers, creative leadership, designers, marketing, and e-commerce teams.
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Manage multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining exceptional quality and attention to detail.
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Organize files, layers, versions, and final deliverables according to established workflows.
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Identify potential issues in photography or production imagery and recommend effective retouching solutions.
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Help establish and continuously improve retouching standards, workflows, and visual quality across the brand.
Qualifications
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6+ years of professional photo-editing experience.
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Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and professional retouching workflows.
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Strong understanding of color correction, color management, masking, compositing, and image preparation.
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Exceptional knowledge of fashion and beauty retouching techniques.
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Strong understanding of fabrics, garment construction, texture, and how clothing should appear in finished imagery.
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Exceptional eye for detail, proportion, color, consistency, and visual quality.
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Ability to perform sophisticated retouching while keeping imagery natural and commercially believable.
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Experience working with high-resolution RAW files and professional photography workflows.
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Strong organizational and file-management skills.
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Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment and manage priorities without constant supervision.
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Excellent communication skills and the ability to receive, interpret, and implement creative feedback.
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Ability to meet deadlines while handling multiple projects and changing priorities.
Salary
$90,000–$120,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications.