Senior Retoucher & AI Image Specialist

Location: Purley, Surrey (near Croydon)

Salary: £40,000–£43,000

Working Pattern: 4 days in the studio | 1 day working from home

Contract: Permanent

The Opportunity

The Fix Creative is recruiting on behalf of a long-established creative agency specialising in FMCG branding and packaging. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Retoucher & AI Image Specialist to join a highly talented image production team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives on producing exceptional, production-ready imagery while embracing the latest AI technology to enhance creative workflows.

Please note: This role is based in the studio four days per week, with one day working from home.

The Role

This is a hands-on production role where you’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality retouching and image production across packaging, food & beverage, beauty, FMCG and brand communications.

Working alongside designers, artworkers, photographers, CGI specialists and account teams, you’ll create accurate, consistent and production-ready imagery while using AI tools to enhance efficiency and creativity.

Key Responsibilities

Retouching & Image Production

• Deliver exceptional retouching across packaging, branding and campaign projects.
• Produce complex compositing, colour correction, image reconstruction, texture work and photorealistic image enhancement.
• Create high-quality product, ingredient and lifestyle imagery for packaging and brand communications.
• Ensure imagery is consistent with brand guidelines and approved creative direction.
• Prepare artwork to meet print production standards and technical specifications.
• Maintain exceptional colour accuracy and attention to detail.
• Create product mock-ups, visualisations and presentation imagery.
• Organise and maintain image libraries and working assets.

AI Image Creation

• Use AI image-generation and enhancement tools as part of professional production workflows.
• Create, adapt and refine AI-generated imagery to meet creative and technical requirements.
• Combine traditional retouching, photography, CGI and AI-generated assets to produce believable final imagery.
• Explore new AI tools and workflows that improve quality and efficiency.
• Share knowledge and best practice with the wider creative team.
• Ensure AI is used responsibly, maintaining quality, copyright and confidentiality standards.

Collaboration & Quality

• Work closely with designers and creative leads to achieve the desired visual outcome.
• Collaborate with artwork and production teams to ensure imagery reproduces accurately in print.
• Take ownership of the quality and accuracy of final imagery.
• Support colleagues with technical retouching challenges.
• Manage multiple projects within a fast-paced agency environment.
• Contribute ideas to improve image production processes and workflows.

About You

You’re an experienced retoucher with exceptional technical ability, a sharp eye for detail and genuine enthusiasm for emerging AI technology.

You enjoy working in a collaborative agency environment, can manage multiple deadlines and consistently produce outstanding creative work.

Essential Experience

This is the key requirement for the role. Candidates must have:

• Commercial FMCG packaging retouching experience gained within a packaging, branding, advertising or creative agency. Applications without FMCG packaging retouching experience are unlikely to be considered.
• Advanced Adobe Photoshop skills.
• Extensive experience in compositing, colour correction, image reconstruction and photorealistic image enhancement.
• Practical experience using AI image-generation or image-enhancement tools within creative workflows.
• Strong understanding of colour, lighting, texture, perspective and image realism.
• Knowledge of packaging design, print production and colour management.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent communication, organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a creative team.

Desirable Experience

• Food, beverage, beauty or wider FMCG brand experience.
• Experience integrating CGI or 3D-rendered assets into photographic imagery.
• Packaging mock-ups and product visualisation experience.
• Interest in workflow automation and emerging creative technologies.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistently delivering high-quality, production-ready imagery.
• Reliable delivery against project deadlines.
• Using AI to enhance, not replace, established creative workflows.
• Building strong collaborative relationships across design, artwork and production teams.
• Contributing to the continued development of the agency’s image production capability.