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Ecommerce Post Production Manager
Denver, CO
The Role
As Post Production Manager you will lead and manage critical steps in our post production and asset delivery workflows. The role requires a unique combination of focus in people management, technology, workflow efficiency, media production, post-production, and archival/librarian work. The Post Production Manager will oversee ShowLabs’ team of retouchers and network of external retouch partners, playing traffic manager against tight deadlines for thousands of digital assets. You will partner with creative team members, production management, and client services to design and build photography and video edit specs that will support our production strategy and achieve client deliverables at speed and scale. Responsibilities will include managing quality control of retouched files to ensure all edit and creative specs are met.
Your role also includes building and managing a forecast tool that determines the time to allocate for each seasonal client production, including tracking hours of contracted retouchers. We strive for perfection when delivering assets to clients in order to make their lives and jobs easier, so our QC protocol is essential to our business. You will manage the delivery and deployment process, ensuring all assets reach our client’s systems successfully. This role will, at times, be responsible for the actual creation of file variants that our clients require in order to publish directly to their sales and marketing platforms. Last, this role will play an integral part in organizing and archiving assets in our evolving digital asset management ecosystem. Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop and Premiere Pro, is required. It is important that this person is experienced in asset management and has a strong level of organizational skills.
Role Objectives
- Drive the progress, growth and maturity of our post production and asset management practices
- Work to implement new strategies to achieve significant operational efficiencies
- Drive the continuous development and improvement of our digital content distribution
- Track and report on key post production KPIs to ShowLabs’ leadership
- Create and manage seasonal client forecasts that outline the timeframes needed for Post Production per project
- Manage and lead our external and internal retouch partners to ensure that files match our client specs
- Learn and work within the ShowLabs framework of workflow tools, systems and software
- Ensure that all files (including all variants) sent to our clients have been QC’d, match the technical specs, match our retouch edit specs, and maintain the proper layer structure on PSD’s
- Manage assets independently and confidently to ensure correct file naming and specs for our client and our archive
- Retouch and edit images when necessary using Adobe CS
- Manage video editors and conduct basic video editing when necessary to ensure the final videos meet our technical specs
- Decipher when assets do not meet our quality control standards
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Post Production field
- Experience working with Ecommerce photography and video with deep understanding of the desired outcome of the aesthetic and end use
- High level of organizational skills as well as articulate and concise communication skills
- Extreme attention to detail
- Can communicate effectively with direct reports, managers and key partners
- Clear understanding of Photoshop and best practices with ability to retouch and edit images
- (Nice to have) Clear understanding of Adobe premier or similar video editing software with ability to conduct simple video edit
- Team player with a positive attitude who can work independently, yet collaborate and take feedback from other team members
- Eagerness to learn and thrive in a startup environment
Compensation
- Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
- Annual bonus
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid company holidays
Those interested and meet the above conditions, please send your CV together with personal details to Careers@ShowLabs.com.
Ecommerce Stylist (freelance)
Denver, CO
The Role
ShowLabs is looking for seasoned ecommerce stylists. The ideal candidate has experience working with leading outdoor and fashion brands and has a keen sense for how their products are marketed and sold to retail buyers and consumers. They will be creative and inventive in generating and executing new ideas to help evolve the way our client’s showcase their products in digital and virtual environments.
Our clients’ sample line can be anywhere from 200 – 2000 SKU’s for one production and includes a range from clothing, backpacks, footwear, gloves, and outdoor gear. Experience with rigging, propping, and filling out the product with the proper styling tools is necessary. Problem solving skills are very important, as we handle a diverse range of products that require a dynamic solutions-based mindset.
The Stylist will work closely with the Creative Team to ensure the product is moving through the production line at the proper pace while meeting the Client-Approved Creative Kit requirements.
The production pace in the studio is quick, efficient, and smooth; to meet client deadlines and demand there will be multiple productions running at the same time. This person will have skills in leadership and be able to train the assistant stylist assisting them in the techniques on the production they are working on to better accomplish the desired end-look of the product being shot in the most time-efficient manner.
We are looking for stylists to join our team on productions who add to our fun, innovative, and collaborative culture.
Role Objectives
- Collaborates with Creative Leads, Producer, and Styling Teams to ensure efficiency in daily shot counts previously communicated by team
- Communicates processes, standards, and oversees the assistant working beneath them
- Maintains brand guidelines with familiarity of brand and styling techniques based on the client-specific Creative Kit provided
- Ability to style different product types ranging from apparel, footwear, accessories, hardware, and hard goods.
- Ability to style of different production types (pin board, flat lay, on-model, tabletop, and mannequin
- Capable of prioritizing and organizing workload to follow production schedule
Qualifications
- 3+ years working as professional stylist
- Expertise and knowledge in product styling for apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment brands
- Self-motivated and able to multitask under tight deadlines
- A positive and enthusiastic personality
- Outstanding follow-up, detail-oriented, strong organizational and communication skills
- Sophisticated creative and technical knowledge and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage and work with spreadsheets when necessary
- Thrive in high-volume collaborative environment, fast paced and feedback driven
Compensation
- Studio standardized hourly compensation rates
Candidates will be required to supply portfolio examples upon application. Those interested and meet the above conditions, please send your CV together with personal details to Careers@ShowLabs.com
Freelance Image Retoucher
Denver, CO
The Role
As Image Retoucher, you will work directly with the Post Production Manager to create and manage KPI-driven post production processes for large volumes of ecommerce product photography. This will include taking both a hands-on approach and performing photo retouching in our studio, as well as building highly detailed editing templates and specs for freelancers and outsourced post-production partners.
There will be a high level of responsibility to perform quality control, production specific onboarding for ICs as well as overseeing ICs during production (i.e. answering questions, assigning ICs to specific jobs, etc.). Maintaining a high level of color accuracy and discernment while keeping calibration profiles on the post machines up to date is essential. It is important that this person can effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external departments to provide direction, support and maintain hard delivery deadlines.
Role Objectives
- Follow style guides, internal and external client notes and information to ensure productions have been retouched to spec
- Conduct photo retouching including wrinkle removal, color changes, mannequin and wire removals, composites, framing, and clipping paths.
- Develop detailed editing templates and specs to guide freelancers and 3rd party partners
- Recruit, train and direct freelancers and 3rd party partners
- Develop and maintain strict quality control standards
- Effectively navigate our CMS to locate production related information
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in Post Production field
- Must be able to utilize a Wacom Tablet
- Advanced experience as a creative user of Adobe Photoshop
- Experience with relevant e-commerce photo and best practices
- Has detail-oriented eye for aesthetics, as well as assure quality to exact detail and delivery spec that follow all style guides
- Team player who can work independently, yet collaborate and take feedback from other team members
- Eagerness to learn and thrive in a fast paced studio environment
- Willingness and desire to be in-studio, collaborating and working closely with other team members
- (Nice to Have) Experience in Adobe Illustrator
Compensation
- Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
- Annual bonus
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid company holidays
Those interested and meet the above conditions, please send your CV together with personal details to Careers@ShowLabs.com.
Lead / Staff Backend Engineer
Denver, CO
The Role
As a Lead/Staff Backend Engineer at ShowLabs, you will be responsible for overseeing the development of the backend of our software product, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance. You will work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to define, implement, and deploy new features and bug fixes to the backend application.
We are looking for someone who has a passion for technology and a proactive focus on the “why” behind the work we do. As a lead engineer, you will mentor and inspire our software engineering team, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment that encourages continuous learning and growth. Your motivation to help others succeed and your dedication to delivering exceptional software solutions will be instrumental in shaping the future of ShowLabs. You will also be responsible for capturing and tracking work streams in collaboration with Product, Design, and engineer leadership.
ShowLabs is where you can bring your deep knowledge of Enterprise SaaS and full stack development into an exciting, fast growing company, and lead the industry into the future.
Key Responsibilities
- As a lead backend engineer, you’ll architect and implement solutions within our existing AWS-based Go API layer to deliver functionality to both our frontend team and our external API consumers.
- Collaborate with product, design, and frontend team members to assess technical feasibility and best approaches to power innovative new solutions for our clients.
- Continually shape our nascent backend, utilizing your expertise in cloud technologies to improve flexibility, durability, scalability, and performance.
- Grow and proactively maintain an effectively-tested, flexible, up-to-date, powerfully integrated, and simple to understand codebase implementing backend business logic.
- Drive a proactive and strategic problem-solving approach, ensuring that the “why” behind technical decisions is always addressed.
- Collaborate to establish processes and best-practices, in both technical and administrative domains, to best empower both yourself and the rest of the team.
- Monitor and repair critical systems on an as needed basis.
- Work with team to evaluate workload, provide estimates, and plan sprints.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience in leading and managing software engineering teams in SaaS-based environments.
- Strong background in full stack development and cloud-based, serverless infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of SaaS architecture, scalable systems, and cloud technologies.
- Experience in leveraging open source licensing and frameworks to enhance software capabilities.
- Excellent strategic problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically in complex technical environments.
- Strong leadership and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping others succeed.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- A track record of delivering high-quality software solutions on time and within budget.
- A passion for innovation through technology and a drive to stay updated with emerging trends and advancements in the field.
- Bonus points for experience with using AI / neural networks for image generation.
Compensation
- Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
- Annual bonus
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid company holidays
Those interested and meet the above conditions, please send your CV together with personal details to Careers@ShowLabs.com
Digital Asset Coordinator (contracted)
Denver, CO
The Role
As the Digital Asset Coordinator, you will work directly with our Lead Retoucher and Head of Post Production as a contractor to support and manage critical steps in our post production process, workflow, and digital asset lifecycle. The role is a marriage of skills sourced from technology, workflow efficiency, media production, post-production, and archival/librarian work.
You will be responsible for tracking, reporting and ensuring quality control on large volumes of digital photography and video assets as they move through each stage of our workflow. Primary responsibilities will include Quality Control of retouched files to ensure the edit specs are met, files are built correctly, named and delivered at the defined client specifications. This role will, at times, be responsible for the actual creation of file variants that our clients require in order to publish to their sales and marketing platforms.
The Digital Asset Coordinator will also assist in the delivery and deployment process, ensuring all assets reach our client’s systems successfully. Last, this role will play an integral part in organizing and archiving assets in our evolving digital asset management ecosystem.
Role Objectives
- Ensure that all deliverables have been QC’d, match the technical specs, match our retouch spec, and maintain the proper layer structure within our working files before files are sent to our clients
- Manage assets independently and confidently to ensure correct file naming and specs for our clients and our archive
- Retouch and edit images when necessary using Adobe Photoshop
- Use our internal workflow software to move images through the workflow, which includes specific workflow steps
- Decipher when assets do not meet our quality control standards
- Drive the progress, growth and maturity of our asset management practices
Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of experience in Post Production/digital asset management field
- High level of organizational skills as well as articulate and concise communication skills
- Extreme attention to detail
- Communicate effectively with managers and key partners
- Experience working with Ecomm photography and video with understanding of the desired outcome of the aesthetic
- Clear understanding of Photoshop and best practices with ability to retouch and edit images
- Fluent in file naming best practices and enforcement
- Past experience working inside of project management suites and a sound understanding of their relationship to DAM
- Superior verbal and written communication skills, experience educating non-technical stakeholders and working across multiple teams and regions
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to set priorities
- Team player with a positive attitude who can work independently, yet collaborate and take feedback from other team members
- Eagerness to learn and thrive in a startup environment
- Competencies in Excel, Photo Asset Production and Post-Production
Compensation
- Hourly Rate
Those interested and meet the above conditions, please send your CV together with personal details to Careers@ShowLabs.com.
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