Ecommerce Image Retoucher Yuppiechef

Yuppiechef is South Africa's premier kitchen and homeware store. Based in Westlake, Cape Town with 23 retail stores across South Africa, we see ourselves as helping people find more moments of joy in their homes — through products that make daily life more comfortable, more innovative and more beautiful. And we do it through our omnichannel shopping experience, providing our world-class service to our customers both in our stores and online. High quality product content on our website is a key component of creating a seamless shopping experience for our customers — helping them make more informed decisions and inspiring them with well-written copy, accurate specs and beautiful visuals. We're looking for a full-time E-commerce Image Retoucher to add capacity to our in-house photography team, help us make our product content better and get products listed on our site faster.

Taking direction from our Photography Lead , you'll spend the bulk of your time vetting, editing and uploading product photographs to our website and content platforms and maintaining our photographic archives. Practically, this looks like:

● Retouching, deep-etching and cropping product images — to Yuppiechef's high quality standards and delivered on deadline 

● Uploading large volumes of new product images with speed and accuracy 

● From time to time creating, optimising and uploading product images for custom landing pages 

● Ensuring our digital photography archive is up to date and organised according to strict conventions

Who you'll be working with:

 You will be working alongside other in-house photography team members and working in close collaboration with the broader creative team (including Design and Copy sections) and Merchandising team (Buying & Planning). We style, photograph and edit large amounts of products in-house, by grafting hard, collaborating, communicating openly and constantly, moving on ideas fairly quickly, and hitting deadlines. At times it comes with pressure, but we love what we do and have a lot of fun while doing it. We're also into things like pets, coffee, series and cake (basically any and all baked goods).

Experience: 

○ Required: 6-12 months editing photographs, in a time-pressured environment 

○ Advantageous: 1-2 years editing photographs in a professional studio setting or working in a similar role for an e-commerce retailer 

● Qualifications: 

○ Required: A solid portfolio and that demonstrates what your skill levels is 

○ A tertiary qualification or accreditation in photography, design or arts 

● Skills: 

○ Technical skills: 

■ Solid skills in editing and manipulating images in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom

■ A base understanding of photographic concepts 

■ Proficient and efficient in working with macOS 

○ Personal skills: 

■ A strong visual vocabulary 

■ Excellent verbal and written skills (English) 

■ An ability to manage your own time and deliverables 

■ Resilient to changes in workload and shifting priorities

Besides having the necessary talent and experience for the role, we're looking for someone who is eager to learn, self-driven, and detail-oriented, and who finds real satisfaction in focusing fully on retouching. You communicate well (both in person and over email or chat), work effectively both independently and in a team, and enjoy sharpening your technical skills. People would describe you as: ● Efficient ● Accurate ● Disciplined ● Observant ● Perfectionist ● Adaptable

Environment, gear, pay and benefits Gear & platforms you'll use:

● A Macbook 

● Adobe Photoshop 

● Capture One 

● Airtable (Project Management Software) Environment: 

● We spend three days of the week working together in our office in Westlake, Cape Town, and have two work-from-home days  

● On the days you work from home or remotely, you will need your own stable, high-speed internet connection and a suitable workspace setup

When you're in the office, you'll find… 

● A fully-equipped, communal kitchen with some pretty neat tools that we sell

 ● A fully-stocked coffee station where you can hone your barista skills 

● Parking available

Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.