Senior Image Editor

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Retouch, enhance, and color-correct images to meet customer expectations and comply with JCPenney Brand Standards, Photography Guidelines, Style Guides, and Promotional Toolkits. • Interpret and execute image retouching and color correction guidelines to consistently achieve JCPenney quality standards. • Perform image editing and remediation activities as detailed in specification guides provided by Image Management. • Upload, edit, and manage product imagery, including creation of swatches, ensembles, hover images, visual navigation assets, marketing tiles, and other image or video-based creative content. • Remediate image issues by removing duplicate images, correcting image alignment, updating colors and color names, extending backgrounds, and resolving other image quality concerns. • Maintain proficiency in both CMYK and RGB color spaces, with a strong understanding of color management, print profiles, and monitor calibration processes. • Ensure daily color calibration of software and monitors to maintain consistency with the Home Office production environment. • Adhere to established file management, workflow, and production guidelines as defined by the Pre-Press team. • Consistently execute quality assurance processes, test plans, and reviews to ensure the accuracy and quality of deliverables. • Analyze image quality trends and provide divisional-level insights, recommendations, and corrective actions to reduce recurring image issues and improve overall content quality. • Contribute to the creation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of image guidelines, SOPs, quality standards, and workflow documentation. • Track imaging volumes, productivity metrics, and time spent on assignments to support accurate capacity planning and budget forecasting. • Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to address image-related issues, provide feedback on recurring quality concerns, and drive continuous improvement. • Learn and adopt new production technologies, tools, automation solutions, and creative workflows as required. • Utilize Adobe Creative Suite effectively, with working knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator, Excel, and PowerPoint. • Participate in brainstorming and ideation sessions to develop innovative solutions that enhance the digital shopping experience for customers. • Monitor team workload, coordinate with technical teams for issue resolution, and support the tracking and publication of team KPIs and performance metrics. • Collaborate effectively with global cross-functional partners to ensure timely delivery of projects and business objectives. • Train, mentor, and support new team members by sharing process knowledge, best practices, and quality standards. • Demonstrate strong planning, coordination, and organizational skills while successfully managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment. • Contribute as a proactive, self-motivated, and collaborative team member with a continuous improvement mindset.