Lead Photo Retoucher

About the role

Trove Brands is a privately‑held house of brands including BlenderBottle®, Owala®, Whiskware®, and Eco‑Brite®. Its patented, best‑selling products are designed to simplify and improve everyday life with leading‑edge innovation, incomparable quality, and aspirational style. A career at Trove Brands is about embracing fast‑paced opportunities that sharpen skills, drive innovation, and play an integral role in growing the company’s global reach. Your work will impact millions of people worldwide.

The Lead Photo Retoucher will lead the in‑house retouching team and help define the visual quality of imagery across the portfolio. This hands‑on leadership role covers lifestyle, campaign, product, and e‑commerce/PDP photography. You will create polished, natural‑looking imagery, oversee retouching quality standards, manage the PDP color‑approval process, maintain color‑managed workflows, and develop a small team of retouchers. The position is fully in‑office at Trove Brands’ headquarters in Lehi, Utah.

Responsibilities

• 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 and deliver against the final vision.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback and help develop the creative and technical skills of other retouchers.
• Maintain strong color‑managed workflows using calibrated monitors, approved profiles, physical product samples, and established output standards.
• Perform advanced color correction, skin work, compositing, masking, cleanup, reconstruction, and other complex Photoshop work as needed.
• Help improve retouching workflows, documentation, quality‑control processes, and production efficiencies.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining consistency, accuracy, and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• 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 and believable 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.
• Experience reviewing work and providing clear creative and technical feedback.
• Strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work on‑site and evaluate imagery alongside physical product samples when needed.
• Previous experience as a Lead Retoucher, Senior Retoucher, Retouching Supervisor, or similar role (desired).
• Experience mentoring or leading a small retouching or post‑production team (desired).
• Experience working with established consumer, lifestyle, or e‑commerce brands (desired).
• Experience working within an in‑house creative studio, agency, or commercial production environment (desired).
• Experience with Capture One and professional photography workflows (desired).
• Experience developing Photoshop actions, scripts, templates, or other workflow efficiencies (desired).

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care
• 401k package with employer matching
• Paid Time Off
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Full indoor basketball/volleyball court
• Fully equipped fitness center (cardio, weights, functional fitness area, lockers and showers, etc.)
• Yoga studio
• Meditation/Nap room
• And much more!