Lead Photo Retoucher

Lehi, UT · Trove Brands · 5+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

The Lead Photo Retoucher will lead an in-house team and define visual quality standards across the Trove Brands portfolio.
This role involves both hands-on high-end retouching and leadership responsibilities for lifestyle, campaign, product, and e-commerce imagery.
The position requires a refined eye for creating polished, natural-looking imagery while overseeing color-approval processes and team development.

Lead and support a small team of in-house retouchers, providing direction, feedback, and quality review.
Perform high-end retouching across lifestyle, campaign, product, and PDP imagery.
Create polished, natural-looking imagery while maintaining realistic skin, texture, materials, lighting, shadows, and product details.
Establish and maintain consistent retouching standards across Trove Brands.
Lead the PDP color-approval process, ensuring imagery accurately represents physical product color, material, texture, and finish.
Review and approve retouched imagery to ensure a consistently high quality bar.
Partner closely with photographers, art directors, designers, and production teams to understand creative intent.
Maintain strong color-managed workflows using calibrated monitors, approved profiles, and physical product samples.
Perform advanced color correction, skin work, compositing, masking, cleanup, and reconstruction.
Improve retouching workflows, documentation, quality-control processes, and production efficiencies.

Approximately 5+ years of professional photo retouching or commercial post-production experience.
A strong portfolio demonstrating high-end lifestyle, campaign, product, and/or commercial retouching.
Advanced to expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
Strong aesthetic judgment and the ability to produce refined, premium imagery while maintaining a natural result.
Deep understanding of color correction, skin tones, product color, compositing, masking, cleanup, and non-destructive editing.
Strong knowledge of color spaces, ICC profiles, monitor calibration, and color-managed workflows.
Ability to identify subtle differences in color, texture, material appearance, and finish.
Strong understanding of photography, lighting, and how capture decisions affect post-production.
Experience maintaining visual consistency across large sets of imagery and multiple projects.
Ability to work on-site and evaluate imagery alongside physical product samples.

Fully in-office position at HQ in Lehi, Utah.
Requires ability to evaluate imagery alongside physical product samples on-site.