Contracting|Senior Retouche

You will work primarily with existing photographic assets—refining, combining, and elevating imagery through postproduction craft rather than generating entirely new visuals.

You will partner closely with creative, production, and stakeholder teams to deliver visually consistent work with strong technical quality, aesthetic judgment, and attention to detail.

Your Impact

• Retouch and enhance high-quality fashion, beauty, and lifestyle imagery to deliver polished, production-ready assets.
• Perform advanced skin retouching, colour correction, object removal, cleanup, and compositing while preserving realism and brand integrity.
• Combine multiple photographic elements into seamless final visuals that feel natural, premium, and visually cohesive.
• Refine image details such as texture, lighting balance, fabric presentation, blemish/scar removal, and overall polish with a strong eye for realism.
• Ensure visual consistency across image sets, campaigns, and content formats while meeting technical specifications and brand requirements.
• Prepare assets for delivery across digital, campaign, editorial, and other production needs.
• Manage workload effectively across multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• Partner with photographers, designers, art directors, and cross-functional teams to interpret creative direction and translate it into final imagery.
• Apply a quality-first mindset so outputs are both aesthetically strong and technically ready for production.
• Contribute ideas that improve workflows, consistency, and the overall quality of postproduction craft, aligned to a culture that values learning, collaboration, openness, client impact, and creativity.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Photo / Image Retoucher working on fashion, beauty, and/or lifestyle imagery.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
• Hands-on experience with skin retouching, colour correction, object removal, cleanup, and compositing.
• Strong understanding of lighting, colour theory, tonal balance, texture handling, and visual consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready assets that meet both technical specifications and brand standards.
• High attention to detail and strong aesthetic judgment, with the ability to balance polish and realism.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and incorporating feedback while maintaining quality and deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize, manage workload effectively, and work successfully in fast-paced production environments.
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across creative and production teams
• A portfolio demonstrating relevant retouching work across fashion, beauty, or lifestyle imagery.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Strong portfolio examples that show before/after transformation, compositing craft, and a clear command of realistic high-end retouching.
• Experience retouching imagery for campaigns, editorial, e-commerce, brand, or digital marketing environments.
• Ability to work across a range of visual styles while maintaining a consistent brand standard.
• Strong understanding of how to refine imagery without over-processing, preserving authenticity, texture, and intent.
• Experience partnering with creative teams to elevate an image beyond correction into a compelling final visual.
• A learning mindset, openness to feedback, inclusive collaboration, and a willingness to think beyond the brief are strongly aligned with Publicis Sapient’s core values and behaviors.
• Experience with broader postproduction workflows or adjacent tools is welcome, but deep Photoshop craft and portfolio quality remain the priority.

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicis.sapient.com

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.