Retoucher IV

Aquent; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent is seeking an exceptional Retoucher for its Content Production Design team in Culver City. You will manage high-volume image delivery, applying expert masking, color work, and composites while coordinating with designers, producers, and external vendors to hit weekly deadlines.

You will maintain strict file organization and asset management, ensuring polished results for Music, TV, Maps, News, and other media products across platforms.

Qualifications

• Major retouching in fast-paced production environments.
• Experience delivering polished images for multiple platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical and process issues independently.
• Strong file-naming and asset organization practices.
• Experience working with design comps and template layouts.
• Ability to manage multiple feedback cycles and tight deadlines.
• Proven track record of leading vendor-driven art asset projects.

Responsibilities

• Retouch images to meet weekly production deadlines.
• Lead projects with external vendors to deliver assets.
• Collaborate with designers, producers, and art directors.
• Ensure consistent file naming and asset delivery to platforms.

Skills

Masking

Extensions

Compositing

Beauty color work

Independent troubleshooting

Design comps

Template layouts

Time-sensitive production

File organization

Fast turnaround

Asset management

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Capture One

Lightroom

After Effects

Premiere

Sketch

Keynote

Job description

The Content Design team conceptualizes, crafts, and builds content experiences for some of the most visible products, including Music, TV, Maps, News, and more! Your ideas and vision can impact the way people consume media products, what they look and feel like, and how they’re used by millions of people across the globe. The Content Production Design team is looking for an exceptional Retoucher, with significant studio experience to manage processes and guidelines for image delivery to a variety of the Media Product platforms. You will be dedicated to the highest standard of quality and applying rigorous attention to detail to create polished images while working in collaboration with teams of designers, producers, and art directors. In addition, you will lead projects with external vendors in order to meet weekly deadlines for the delivery of art assets. You are comfortable and productive in a team environment, while being highly-organized in work habits and file building. For any given project you may be called on for various retouching tasks such as color adjustment & correction, masking, extensions, and composites.

Skills

• Expert level skills in masking, extensions, composite, beauty and color work
• Ability to work independently to troubleshoot technical and process related issues
• Experience working within design comps and template layouts
• Prior experience in a time-sensitive production environment
• Diligence in file-naming structures and file organization
• Ability to work quickly and with multiple points of feedback and changes
• Final cropped image uploaded to asset management system

Additional requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating retouching work
• 7+ years of experience in photo retouching
• Expert Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Capture One, Lightroom
• Proficiency in After Effects or Premier, Sketch, and Keynote