Photo Production Designer

Pre-production & shotlists

• Build maintain and distribute shotlists in partnership with the creative e-commerce and merchandising teams.

• Translate seasonal briefs and product assortments into clear shoot plans prop and styling needs and shot quotas.

• Coordinate with photographers stylists and producers to ensure all assets are captured on the day of the shoot.

File capture ingestion & organization

• Own ingest backup and metadata tagging for every shoot RAW through delivered.

• Maintain a clean consistent folder structure and naming convention across our DAM so assets are easy to find months and seasons later.

• Keep our archive healthy: versioning redundancy and clear hand-offs to retouchers and downstream teams.

Post-production: retouching & recoloring

• Retouch product on-figure and lifestyle imagery to a high editorial standard skin garment color and composite work.

• Color-correct and recolor product imagery to match physical samples and approved swatches.

• Build and maintain Photoshop and Capture One templates actions and color profiles to keep the team fast and consistent.

Flatlay program ownership

• Own the flatlay process end-to-end you are the single point of accountability from brief to final hand-off.

• Build and maintain flatlay guides and shotlists including styling references prop standards and shot quotas by category.

• Review every flatlay asset as it comes back from capture and retouch QC against guides and send revisions before anything moves downstream.

• Manage the final hand-off to the e-commerce team right files right specs right naming on schedule.

Asset delivery: ads site & beyond

• Crop resize and version final imagery for paid social display retail wholesale and partner channels.

• Prep and deliver site assets PDP PLP homepage editorial to spec and on schedule.

• Maintain delivery specs and a single source of truth for sizes file types and naming across channels.

Email Ad & UX design

• Design email campaigns and lifecycle templates that embody brand first principles

• Contribute to UX features and merchandising modules on working from existing systems and helping evolve them.

• Understand whats working from a paid ads perspective and help iterate on winning ad creative

• Partner with copy dev paid media and CRM partners on all of the above

Systems & process

• Streamline how the creative team works identify bottlenecks across shotlist capture post and delivery and put lightweight systems in place to fix them.

• Document workflows naming conventions and hand-off processes so they survive turnover and scale with the team.

• Be the connective tissue between creative e-commerce and marketing the person who keeps everyone aligned on spec and on schedule.

• Unapologetically type-A. You build systems hold the line on standards and quietly become the person every creative on the team relies on to keep things on track.

• 35 years of experience in photo production retouching graphic design UX or production design ideally in apparel fashion or lifestyle e-commerce.

• A relentless file organizer with strong opinions about naming conventions folder structure version control and DAM hygiene.

• Expert-level Photoshop and Lightroom or Capture One; comfortable on set with tethered capture workflows.

• Strong eye for color: experience with calibrated monitors color management and matching imagery to physical product.

• Working proficiency in Figma and the Adobe suite (Illustrator InDesign) for email ad and light UX design work.

• Production-minded: you live in specs deadlines and shotlists and you know the cost of a bad asset getting into the wild.

• A calm proactive communicator who keeps creative e-commerce marketing and external partners aligned without drama.

• A portfolio that shows both retouched/produced imagery and design output (email ads or site).