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Rue La La is the leader in transforming online retail with a high-growth, dynamic business model that is changing online shopping. Rue La La is an exclusive, invitation-only online destination. A place where Members delight in discovering private sale Boutiques that open daily with a rush and promptly close two days later. A community where members shape the experience by inviting their friends. A collection of premier brands that is well-edited, ever changing, and highly desirable.

The company's mission is to partner with premier brands (currently over 600 of the best and counting), offering them a powerful online selling opportunity by enabling them to move merchandise in a private selling environment. And Rue La La does so with one key mantra it respects and maintains the core integrity of each and every brand with which they partner.

Rue La La is a portfolio company of Retail Convergence, Inc., an Internet 100 retailer that also owns and operates SmartBargains.com. Corporate headquarters is in Boston, and they continue to expand their presence in New York by building out merchandise, marketing and sales capabilities in their Bryant Park office. The company's success is largely due to capabilities in merchandising, technology, production and logistics that are unmatched. The culture, of 225-plus associates, is defined by the people who make it happen every day people who love style, innovation, and share a commitment to exceeding our Member and brand partner expectations.

Rue La La's membership has grown to more than 1.6 million members in 20 months. Entering it's third full year of operation, Rue La La continues to grow revenue at a pace exceeding 100% annually.

It was announced in October 2009, that Retail Convergence and GSI Commerce signed a definitive agreement for GSI to purchase Retail Convergence. GSI Commerce Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIC), is the leading provider of e-commerce and interactive marketing services. There will be no changes in management or operations at Rue La La as a result of the sale.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Digital Retouch Manager, Boston
The Digital Retouch Manager, Boston, will help to oversee the creation of the Boutiques on Rue La La, and product images for SmartBargains.com. We're looking for someone with a sophisticated aesthetic sense, who is comfortable overseeing several groups of imaging professionals. You'll be managing a group that prides itself on the excellence of everything they do, that respects and protects the integrity of the brands we feature, and has fun together doing it. This position reports to the Director, Site Content.

Responsibilities:
- Grow, build, and strengthen the existing team, helping to formulate a 7-day imaging team.
- Manage daily workflow and meet production deadlines, both for SmartBargains and Rue La La
- Manage staff of retouchers with varying levels of expertise
- Ability to reprioritize production output without sacrificing quality or end-results
- Collaborate with Ads, Photographers, and Event Production as needed to ensure delivery of end-results
- Use Adobe Photoshop CS4/5 to retouch and produce high quality product jpegs for use on two large-scale, retail websites.
- Collect product images from various sources including in-house photo studio, vendor supplied images and scanned printed materials, then retouch, enhance, crop, color correct, color-shift and manipulate images as necessary.
- Optimize and re-size images to existing company standards for web use.
- Work with Retouch Team Lead and other production team members to ensure product accuracy and image consistency.
- Work on additional ad hoc image projects as needed.
- Train and share new processes and mentor junior associates
- This is a high-volume production position using Photoshop CS4/5 on the Mac platform. This is not a design position.

Qualifications:
- 2 years experience retouching product images for website or print use.
- Proven knowledge and experience with Adobe Photoshop preparing images for the web.
- Expertise in the following Photoshop techniques is required:
- Image manipulation using adjustment layers with layer masks.
- Image retouching using Healing Brush and Clone Stamp tools.
- Intricate selection and creation of clipping paths using the Pen tool.
- Product color-shifting using masked Color, Hue/Saturation and Levels adjustment layers to create products in multiple colors from a single original.
- Using Actions, Batches and Scripts to automate Photoshop.
- Willingness to learn new methods and techniques.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment.