Photographic Retoucher

Visual assets that power the Williams brand across social, digital, print, merchandise, and partner activations. This role is essential in maintaining our world-class visual standards and storytelling excellence, contributing directly to fan engagement and commercial success. You’ll work closely with internal photographers, creatives, and brand teams to ensure each image meets the aesthetic and technical requirements of a premium global motorsport brand. 

Main Duties: 

• Retouch, colour-correct, and enhance images for print, digital, and social use,  
  delivering consistent, high-quality visual content. 

• Collaborate with photographers and production managers to ensure image post-production aligns with creative direction and campaign goals. 

• Apply advanced retouching techniques such as blemish removal, background refinements,  
  lighting adjustments, and compositing. 

• Maintain consistent brand aesthetics and visual tone across all outputs, ensuring alignment with  
  Atlassian Williams Racing’s evolving guidelines. 

• Manage and organise image workflow, including file handling, archiving, and ensuring efficient project turnaround. 

• Liaise with internal stakeholders including the Creative Design, Content, and Partnerships teams to meet creative and commercial requirements. 

• Stay current with emerging editing tools, trends, and techniques to ensure continued  
  creative excellence. 

• Ensure all retouching adheres to colour and resolution standards for various channels and formats. 

Key Accountabilities: (choose appropriate level description) 

• Understand and work in line with Williams Values & Behaviours, encouraging others to do the same.  

• Ensure understanding of and compliance with health and safety obligations.  

• Maintain personal high standards of behaviour and conduct, being a positive ambassador  
  for the department.  

• Ensure you adhere to brand rules and maintain high standards of department presentation.  

• Work to quality standards and identify and contribute ways to continuously improve department and personal performance. 

Ensure understanding of cost cap rules and requirements. 

(Manager/Supervisor level role) 

Fulfil all organisational expectations, including but not limited to the following:  

• Role model Williams Values & Behaviours, supporting and holding others accountable to do the same. 

• Always ensure compliance with health and safety obligations, supporting managers to uphold expected standards.   

• Ensure high standards of behaviour and conduct are upheld across the organisation, including the wellbeing of team members.  

• Carry out effective team member performance management, making sure suitable measures are agreed and taken to close any identified gaps in skills or knowledge. 

• Ensure you adhere to brand rules and maintain high standards of department presentation. 

• Comply with quality standards and identify and contribute ways to continuously improve department and personal performance. 

• Ensure understanding of cost cap requirements and identify opportunities to improve optimisation.   

(Individual Contributor level role) 

Fulfil all organisational expectations, including but not limited to the following:  

• Understand and work in line with Williams Values & Behaviours, encouraging others to do the same. 

• Ensure understanding of and compliance with health and safety obligations. 

• Maintain personal high standards of behaviour and conduct, being a positive ambassador for the department. 

• Ensure you adhere to brand rules and maintain high standards of department presentation. 

• Work to quality standards and identify and contribute ways to continuously improve department and personal performance. 

• Ensure understanding of cost cap rules and requirements. 

Core Competencies: 

• Advanced Image Retouching & Editing – Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, with the ability to deliver precise, high-quality results under tight deadlines. 

• Visual Consistency & Brand Awareness – Strong understanding of visual storytelling and the ability to uphold brand identity across varied platforms.

• Digital Asset Management – Skilled in managing high volumes of digital files using structured workflows and archiving processes. 

• Attention to Detail – Demonstrates meticulous quality control to ensure flawless visual outputs across all channels. 

Qualifications and Experience Level: 

• A strong portfolio showcasing a range of retouching work across editorial, commercial,  
  or sports photography. 

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in photographic retouching, ideally within fashion, sport, or advertising. 

• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop), Capture One, and  
  RAW image processing. 

• Familiarity with colour workflows (CMYK/RGB) and optimising images for digital and print output. 

• Experience working with file transfer platforms and digital asset management systems. 

• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise in a deadline-driven environment. 

This job description is not exhaustive, and the job holder will be required to carry out from time-to-time tasks in addition to the above that will be both reasonable and within their capabilities. 

For almost 50 years, Atlassian Williams Racing has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name.  

Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long-term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid. 

Atlassian Williams Racing is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.