What are the responsibilities and job description for the Post-Production Artist position at Surya Inc.?
About Surya Inc.
Surya Inc. is an innovative home furnishings company catering to a variety of lifestyles. Surya Inc.’s thoughtfully curated design-forward furniture, rugs, textiles, lighting, wall decor and accents are available worldwide through leading retailers, interior designers, and online stores. The Surya Inc. family of brands includes Surya, Global Views, Mitchell Gold Bob Williams, Livabliss, and RST Brands. Surya Inc. has been named to the Inc. 5000 annual list of America's fastest growing privately held companies ten times.
Position Details
We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Post-Production Artist to join our commercial photography team. This position is responsible for retouching, color-correcting, organizing, and preparing high-quality product images for e-commerce, catalogs, print, and marketing materials.
The ideal candidate has strong Photoshop skills, an excellent eye for color and detail, and the ability to maintain consistent quality while working with a high volume of images.
Key Responsibilities
* Retouch and prepare commercial product photography for final delivery.
* Perform accurate color correction to closely match the physical product.
* Remove dust, scratches, wrinkles, reflections, supports, and unwanted elements.
* Create clean clipping paths, layer masks, and transparent-background images.
* Maintain realistic product shape, texture, materials, shadows, and dimensionality.
* Crop, straighten, resize, sharpen, and format images to established specifications.
* Follow file-naming, folder-routing, color-profile, metadata, and delivery standards.
* Review completed images for retouching quality, color accuracy, and technical compliance.
* Manage multiple projects and meet daily and weekly production deadlines.
* Communicate with photographers and studio leadership when images require additional work or reshooting.
Qualifications
* Professional experience in commercial retouching, production art, or digital imaging.
* Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
* Strong knowledge of layers, masks, clipping paths, Smart Objects, selections, and nondestructive editing.
* Strong understanding of product color correction and image preparation for web and print.
* Excellent attention to detail, organization, and file-management skills.
* Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, high-volume production environment.
* Portfolio demonstrating professional product-retouching work.
Experience with home décor, furniture, rugs, lighting, textiles, or e-commerce photography is preferred. Familiarity with Capture One, Adobe Bridge, batch processing, Photoshop actions, or automated image workflows is a plus.
Please submit a resume and portfolio showing relevant commercial product-retouching work.