Senior Retoucher

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

We’re looking for an outstanding Senior Retoucher to join Sky Creative and take a lead in making our campaigns look great You'll enhance and refine visual assets and collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure that our work not only meets but exceeds industry standards. Reporting into the Head of Retouching, you'll join this award winning team to create captivating visuals which tell compelling stories and create long lasting impressions.

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What you’ll do:
- Push our retouching craft to be the very best in industry.- Collaborate with photographers, designers, and other team members to understand the vision and objectives of each project and advise on site.- Impart knowledge and help develop more junior members of the team with visionary work and knowledge.- Respond to briefs with clarity and flair.- Ensure that all visual content meets quality and technical standards, paying meticulous attention to detail while maintaining brand consistency.- Bring retouch experience to seek out new ways of working.

What you’ll bring:
- A strong and comprehensive understanding of Photoshop and retouch techniques.- An extensive and varied portfolio of work with before and afters demonstrating exploration and finish.- Experience with multi part compositing, dynamic symmetry, scaling and perspective, and large format retouching and printing.- Full working knowledge of Capture one, Phase one and camera raw photo processing software.- Excellent communication skills within all relevant parties in a fast paced studio.- A full understanding of print and digital output.- Proven ability to collaborate and work with wider departments and 3rd parties.

Team Overview

Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple partners across our European Markets.

From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.

We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.

We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.

The rewards:
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate- A generous pension package- Private healthcare- Discounted mobile and broadband- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Where you’ll work:
Osterley

Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.

On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

Why wait?

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.