Product Retoucher

Who We Are

The Thesis is a digital agency building an AI-powered image production engine for a global consumer brand. Our pipeline uses generative AI tools to produce product images featuring products shown on-model and in lifestyle or studio-style scenes at a scale that traditional photography cannot match.

Job

We're looking for a skilled Product Retoucher who can take AI-generated output and bring it to publish-ready quality, addressing product detail accuracy, lighting consistency, and compositional issues. This is a temporary or independent contractor (1099) position working directly within our production team.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Retouch AI-generated on-model lifestyle and product images to a client-ready standard.
• Address skin texture, fine details, and anatomical naturalism introduced or altered by AI generation.
• Fix distorted details, pseudo-text, and aliasing artifacts.
• Refine lighting, shadow consistency, and background seamlessness.
• Work from structured client feedback delivered via Airtable (text notes and annotated references).
• Deliver layered PSDs, JPGs, and PNGs per agreed naming and file conventions.
• Communicate clearly on scope, revision estimates, and any image-level issues flagged for escalation.

Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional retouching experience, preferably within an agency, studio, retailer, e-commerce environment, or corporate creative department.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in product retouching, skin retouching, color correction, compositing, and image enhancement across multiple product categories.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and professional retouching workflows.
• Experience retouching premium hard goods, jewelry, luxury items, fashion, or other detail-intensive product imagery is strongly preferred.
• Experience managing high-volume asset production while maintaining exceptional quality standards.
• Comfortable working with AI-generated source material and resolving common image-generation inconsistencies.
• Comfortable working independently within fast-paced creative and production environments.