Senior Retoucher

This is a full-time, on-site Dubai role overseeing all image editing across two streams: production retouching for product pages and creative retouching for marketing material. The senior retoucher owns image quality, process efficiency and spend. The production side photographs more than 500 products daily, over 2,000 images, which an outside partner edits and returns within 24 to 48 hours. Marketing shoots roughly three or four creative campaigns each month.

The job includes designing a streamlined post-production process with the production head and the technologists, quickly retouching priority product and creative files, and giving photographers daily technical help to cut editing demand. The senior retoucher writes and promotes editing standards for outsourced vendors, coaches the Image Coordinator to bring more retouching in-house, reviews consistency across internal and external output, and helps with uploading images to the site. Turnaround times and outsourcing costs are also tracked.

Applicants need at least three years of fashion image retouching, a sound grasp of e-commerce workflows and retouching methods, and people management ability. Strong asset and file management, plus budgeting and reporting experience, are also required. Goals include fewer amends to creative assets, fewer reshoots, lower workloads, quicker post-production and steadier quality. Listed competencies are results focus, analytical reasoning, clear communication, adaptability and strategic thinking.