Retoucher

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Monks has a position for a talented Retoucher who wants to further develop their skills in digital assets and content design at our Tokyo office. In this mid to senior-level role, you will join a dedicated global team in producing top quality content for one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Role & Responsibilities

• You will retouch and silhouette a big variety of photo styles, from beauty to clean up and composition work.
• You use photograph editing software to enhance images by correcting resolution and composition, cropping images and adjusting tone, color, saturation and brightness. The retouching process can also consist of adding or removing objects from an image or inserting text. 
• You work as part of a team that works at the client’s office in Tokyo for three days per week. 
• You’ll help other designers excel at retouching. 
• The job is about harmonizing speed, style and scale to retouch high end photography at a steady pace.
• Pixel perfectness is important. You safeguard quality at all times and work together with QA testers.
• You will work together directly with art directors on the client side, representing Monks from a design POV.

Requirements 

• For this role, we’re looking for a retoucher/designer with around 5 years of experience retouching and creating beautiful images.
• You have an eye for art and composition and can relate to what's typically desirable in a photographic image. It is necessary to understand the components of visual art and the elements of photography.
• You are an expert in Photoshop and know every trick in the book.
• You know how to keep your files, layers and folders super-organized, even if you’re a creative mess outside of Photoshop.
• You can take charge of small tasks independently, and take on bigger jobs with little supervision.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is your second nature.
• You are always on the lookout for process efficiencies.
• You are well-versed in English
• You are a clear communicator and are happy to work with designers from all over the world.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.