Junior AI Imaging Artist

Job Title: Junior AI Imaging Artist Location: New York, NY (Flatiron HQ) – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote About The Job TileBar is an innovative industry leader transforming the tile, interiors and surfaces market in the United States. As a rapidly growing company, we are redefining how homeowners and designers shop for projects. TileBar is looking for a highly organized Junior AI Imaging Artist to join our creative team and support the production, management, and enhancement of visual content across ecommerce, marketing, and brand campaigns. This role is ideal for someone early in their creative career who thrives in fast-paced environments, has strong technical organization skills, and is excited by the intersection of photography and AI-powered creative tools. In addition to retouching and AI-assisted image creation, this position plays a critical role in maintaining and managing TileBar’s growing digital asset library and ensuring seamless organization across creative workflows. This role will report directly to the Senior Manager of Photography – Post-Production and work closely with the creative, photography, and design teams to support daily asset management, retouching workflows, and AI-assisted content production. Essential Duties and Responsibilities To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned. Assist with high-quality photo retouching and editing for ecommerce, marketing, social media, and brand campaigns. Utilize AI-powered creative tools and automation workflows to support image processing and creative production. Take ownership of digital asset management processes, ensuring all imagery, creative files, and deliverables are accurately organized, tagged, archived, and easily accessible. Maintain strict file naming conventions, folder structures, metadata standards, and version control across all creative assets. Support the organization and upkeep of TileBar’s photography and AI-generated content libraries. Create and enhance visual assets using generative AI platforms such as Adobe Firefly, Runway, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Nano Banana, or similar tools. Handle asset distribution, file transfers, and communications with third-party retouching vendors to ensure deadlines, quality standards, and workflow expectations are met. Assist in the creation of photo retouching decks, markup documents, and visual guides to communicate retouching direction and creative feedback clearly across teams and vendors. Collaborate closely with photographers, designers, post-production teams, and creative stakeholders to maintain visual consistency and efficient workflows. Prepare and optimize imagery for web, ecommerce, and digital platforms while ensuring quality control and brand alignment. Assist with creative production prep for photo shoots and AI-assisted content creation projects. Stay current on emerging AI trends, creative technologies, and evolving digital asset management best practices. Qualifications The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. 1–2 years of experience in photo retouching, digital content creation, digital asset management, or related creative work. Must be highly proficient in Adobe Photoshop with strong retouching, compositing, color correction, and image editing skills. Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage large volumes of digital assets efficiently. Strong understanding of digital asset management workflows, file organization systems, version control, and archive maintenance. Experience coordinating assets and communications with external vendors, freelancers, or post-production partners is a plus. Familiarity with AI creative tools such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Runway, Stable Diffusion, Nano Banana, or similar platforms. Portfolio demonstrating photography, retouching, design, or AI-assisted creative work. Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced creative environment. Strong communication and collaboration skills. Interest in ecommerce, interiors, luxury, or design-driven brand aesthetics. Preferred Qualifications Experience working in an ecommerce brand, creative agency, or production studio environment. Familiarity with DAM systems, post-production workflows, or studio asset pipelines. Knowledge of Monday.com, Figma, and collaborative project management workflows. Basic understanding of AI prompting, image generation workflows, or AI model customization. Passion for emerging technologies, creative innovation, and visual storytelling. Talent Standards for Success At TileBar, how we work matters as much as what we achieve. In this role, success will also be measured by how consistently you demonstrate TileBar’s five Talent Standards. Results Ownership & Accountability Takes ownership of responsibilities and outcomes, communicates proactively, manages commitments and deadlines responsibly, follows through, and addresses risks or issues that may impact results. Collaboration & Team Contribution Works well with others, supports team and company goals, shares information appropriately, and builds productive relationships with colleagues, leaders, and cross-functional partners. Organizational Mindset Understands how individual work, decisions, and priorities affect other people, teams, customers, and the broader company. Balances role-specific responsibilities with what supports the best overall outcome for TileBar. Adaptability & Continuous Improvement Adapts to changing priorities, learns new ways of working, remains open to feedback, and looks for opportunities to improve processes, outcomes, and how work gets done. Judgment & Problem Solving Uses critical thinking and sound judgment to solve problems, manage priorities, make informed decisions, and know when to act independently, involve others, or escalate. Benefits At Soho Studio/TileBar, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Short-Term Disability in addition to a Company match on 401K, and Free Weekly Lunch. Our employees also receive Paid Time Off (PTO), Holidays, and Personal Days. Compensation $65,000 - 70,000 per year Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. At TileBar, we are committed to fostering a workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce not only enhances our ability to innovate and succeed but also creates a more enriching and supportive environment for our employees. TileBar is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability, or veteran status.