Creative Design Team

Rainbow Universe Pageants & Youth Services is looking for an eclectic group of experienced Creative Designers to form our very important and vital to our mission Creative Design Team. The roles needed for this team include: Fashion/Jewelry Designer, Graphics Designer, Junior Designer, Video Producer/Photographer, Production Artist/Marketing Designer, Multi-Media Artist & Animator under the direction of our Chief Creative Officer who is also the CEO of the company to devise our marketing & creative design strategy, create content & designs, and monitor its progress. Some of these roles are subject to being eliminated if unnecessary or there may be additions to this team not included on this list. You will be able to implement your creative vision and become the points of reference for any creative plan that wants to make its way to our audience and clients. We are looking for a team that will contribute to our overall brand and marketing strategy aligned with our mission and our brand colors which are the nine colors of the rainbow (pink, green, yellow, orange, violet, tan, blue, indigo, and red). Our sashes and crowns are specially designed and created to represent our brand for each pageant that we produce. We also sell branded merchandise for our RainbowUP Boutique and our online store.  

Responsibilities of Chief Creative Officer (CEO’s role)

Responsible for high-level decisions, and will be leading the team as follows:

• Planning and overseeing the development of company advertisements and project management
• Heading brand campaigns, including submitting ideas for projects and overseeing the development of all creative content
• Supervising all work completed by the creative department
• Working with design team and other creative leaders to set project deadlines and content goals
• Presenting project information, including deadlines and budgets, to design team and clients
• Recruit and train team leads, managers and directors
• Oversee the creative budget

Responsibilities of each Creative Design Team Member:

Fashion Designer (full-time):  responsible for researching fashion and jewelry trends, creates sketches of their designs, pitches to Chief Creative Designer, and manages the production process for all designs. This person will be designing the merchandise for the RUPYS brand will all 9 rainbow colors included. Designs include hats, t-shirts, hoodies, leggings, cargo pants, accessories and any other branded merchandise as needed.

The person for this role will be skilled in:

• Sales
• Customer contact
• Merchandising
• Product design and development
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Sketching

Graphics Designer (part-time): responsible for creating designs for marketing collateral, product illustrations, brand identities and websites using computer software like the Adobe® Creative Suite. This person will merge technical skill with artistic ability to create designs that resonates with its desired audience (youth target market 13-24).

The person for this role will be skilled in:

• Adobe® Creative Suite
• Typesetting
• Marketing materials
• Social media design
• Website design
• Packaging

Junior Designer (part-time): Under the direction of the Fashion Designer, this position is specially created for a youth or young adult seeking a career in Fashion or Creative Design. The person for this role will create engaging designs according to requirements, participate in various design projects from concept to completion, produce drafts, prototypes and engaging design solutions, listen to feedback and hone skills to improve designs. You should be highly creative and have a sharp eye for details, create impactful designs that capture and promote our company vision and appeal to your peers, our youth target market.

The person for this role will be skilled in::

• Understand project requirements and concepts
• Use various techniques to create drafts, models and prototypes
• Produce final design solutions (like logos, banners, interfaces)
• Pitch creative ideas
• Collaborate with team members to launch projects
• Take on special design tasks (e.g. color correction)
• Use feedback from other designers to improve
• Entry level skills; training will be provided for design software (InVision) and graphics editing tools (PhotoShop, CorelDRAW), etc.
• Familiarity with design techniques (e.g. prototyping)
• Understanding of visual elements (layout, type and fonts)

Video Producer/Photographer (part-time): A Video Producer is responsible for planning and implementing all of the elements of a video project. Their duties include securing the rights to intellectual property, managing logistics for the film set and overseeing post-production tasks like editing and video animation. A Photographer is responsible for taking clear, dynamic photos according to client specifications. Their duties include setting up backdrops, lighting and equipment to prepare for a photo shoot, directing contestants and title winners to capture the perfect image and editing the photos to remove blemishes and correct lighting issues.

The person for this role will be skilled in:

• Directs on-screen talent
• Writes scripts (may be optional)
• Is involved with other production aspects, such as audio, visual effects and graphics
• Leadership, coaching and collaboration skills to recruit negotiate, supervise and manage people
• Aesthetic and creative skills to select stories, write stories and generate ideas
• Analytical and decision-making skills to make business judgments
• Time and project management skills
• Communicating with clients to set up a time and place for a photoshoot
• Maintaining and managing photography equipment
• Editing photos
• Submitting photos to appropriate persons
• Managing photography sessions
• travel to various locations to shoot an event or scenery or utilize own studios for portraits, commercial shoots or artistic work

Production Artist/Marketing Designer (full-time): While an art director comes up with creative concepts and a graphic designer executes them, it’s the production artist who brings them to life. That’s why strong typographic and layout skills, strict attention to detail, and outstanding organizational, project management, file-organization and archiving skills are a must. Organize multiple projects while delivering against timelines and managing expectations. Also responsible for making a design work for various mediums like billboards, online ads, brochures, and social media.

The person for this role will be skilled in:

• Prepare final press-ready files based on supplied specifications for several types of printing
• Make various formats of supplied artwork production-ready and resolve any artwork issues that arise during production
• Provide image retouching, clipping paths and additional image manipulation
• Package and preflight files for release to printers or media partners
• Create PDFs for print and client review
• Conduct press checks
• Prepare images for online and mobile applications
• Catalog and reference art for future projects
• Follow a development timeline to ensure tasks are being completed on time
• Troubleshoot problems as they arise with both the creative team and the printer
• Actively participate in brainstorming, planning and objective creation to ensure marketing design and strategy is on message and appropriate for target audience (13-24)
• Enforce brand standards across all organizational communications and proof work to ensure accuracy
• Produce assets for campaigns, e-mail, video, editorial, landing pages, presentations, events, sponsorships, social media, marketing sites, sales collateral

Multimedia Artist & Animator (part-time): responsible for creating and managing the visual content needs of the multimedia department. This role is for a creative individual competent in the execution of storytelling in motion graphics and in video editing. The creative needs to be able to work directly with internal creative and clients to create and deliver their audio/visual needs. create two- and three-dimensional models, images that appear to move, and visual effects for television, movies, video games, and other forms of media.

The person for this role will be skilled in:

• Use computer programs and illustrations to create graphics and animation (images that appear to move)
• Work with a team of animators and artists to create a movie, game, or visual effect
• Research upcoming projects to help create realistic designs or animation
• Edit animation and effects on the basis of feedback from directors, other animators, game designers, or clients
• Meet with clients, other animators, games designers, directors, and other staff (which may include actors) to review deadlines and development timelines

Requirements for all roles:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 2-3 years professional design experience
• Experience creating marketing and sales materials from ideation to production
• Familiarity working on websites using drag and drop (no coding necessary)
• Excellent communication skills
• Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite
• The ability to not only come up with the ideas, but to execute on them in the form of graphics, video, direction, analytics, research and front-end development
• Collaborate closely with art directors, designers and developers
• Teamwork skills
• A keen eye for detail
• Time management and multitasking abilities
• Creativity skills and problem-solving aptitude
• Hands-on experience in creative process, marketing, graphic design and brand development

• Excellent working knowledge of software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Wordpress, etc.
• Excellent working knowledge of Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest. Twitter, YouTube and TikTok
• Outstanding leadership and organization skills
• Collaborate with our CEO/Chief Creative Officer to design branded merchandise to complement our brand and marketing strategies
• Work with CEO/Chief Creative Officer to craft an updated brand strategy and marketing plan.
• Produce quality still photography and videography for pageant title winner’s bios and contestants’ competition interviews
• Design basic clothing and accessories with our logo and brand colors included in all 9 colors of the rainbow
• Monitor results of team efforts and propose actions for the future
• Design sashes according to each category and color of the rainbow for all pageant competitions
• Design crowns and tiaras according to title win level (Prince, Princess, Queen and King) as well as the theme of the pageant
• Conceive and implement concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects and oversee them to completion. Particularly around brand strategy and social media.
• Experience in the Pageant Industry and working with youth and young adults a plus
• Exemplary interpersonal and analytical abilities

Personality and Interests

Multimedia artists and animators typically have an interest in the creating interest area, according to the Holland Code framework. The Creating interest area indicates a focus on being original and imaginative, and working with artistic media.

If you are not sure whether you have a Creating interest which might fit with a career as a multimedia artist and animator, you can take a career test to measure your interests.

Multimedia artists and animators should also possess the following specific qualities:

Artistic talent. Animators and artists should have artistic ability and a good understanding of color, texture, and light. However, they may be able to compensate for artistic shortcomings with better technical skills.

Communication skills. Multimedia artists and animators need to work as part of a complex team and respond well to criticism and feedback.

Computer skills. Many multimedia artists and animators use computer programs or write programming code to do most of their work.

Creativity. Artists and animators must be able to think creatively to develop original ideas and make them come to life.

Time-management skills. The hours required by most studio and game design companies are long, particularly when there are tight deadlines. Artists and animators need to be able to manage their time when a deadline approaches.

Job Type: Full-time& Part-time (this is subject to change)

Location: all positions are a part of our In-house design team which requires in office work with the exception of the Photographer who will travel from time to time for photo shoots

Salary: competitive and discussed during 3rd interview if invited & (DOE)/negotiable

Benefits: Full and competitive plus extra perks and rewards for loyalty

*Please view our website @ www.rainbowuniversepageants.com for more information about what we do and check out our “Careers” and “Our Rainbow Culture” page to make sure you feel you are a good fit to be a part of our organization.

Rainbow Universe Pageants is an inner beauty pageant system that caters to youth ages 13-24. We produce unique and innovative pageant productions as well as provide an array of youth services and programs to promote and motivate youth to excellence. Our youth contestants participate in pre-pageant workshops to prepare them for their competition and all of the attention they will be receiving as contestants.