Remote position - From Argentina or Uruguay
RYZ Labs is looking for an enthusiastic Quality Assurance Analyst to review a wide variety of pre-production text and art files for trading card products, across multiple brands within our client's professional Sports and Entertainment licenses. This position interfaces with internal teams in a fast-paced environment to review pre-production art files, maintaining the visual quality of their products, and complying with the standards of their licensors. The right candidate needs to be well-versed with multi-tasking, using several platforms, and handling a multitude of projects independently, as well as comfortable functioning in a tight team environment. The role requires a keen eye for detail, proactive mindset, and a proficiency in sports verbiage and awareness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proofread raw trading card sports and entertainment text for grammar, spelling, house style and licensor requirements.
- Review composed files of trading cards for file integrity, design consistency, image quality, text formatting, technical set-up and printing plate registration.
- Examine intermediate stages of card proofs to ensure that requested revisions (by Quality Assurance, Editorial staff, Designers or Licensors) have been accurately applied.
- Check imposition layouts against subject lists to ensure proper alignment of trading card sheets released to press.
- Perform final review of imposed trading card sheets for errors and omissions prior to release of files to press.
- Inspect packaging art files, to ensure accuracy of information presented to consumer, based on internal content documents, legal guidelines, and Bills of Materials.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or minimum of 2 years professional experience in the journalism, photography, and/or sports & collectibles industry.
- Outstanding attention to textual and graphic detail and ability to incorporate extensive licensor style guides.
- Mastery of English (U.S.) grammar, and adaptability to occasional use of European English formats.
- Flexibility to variable styles and requirements of assorted sports (MLB, MLS, UEFA Champions League, Bundesliga, Formula 1) and entertainment (Star Wars, Garbage Pail Kids) properties.
- Multi-tasking capability to manage assignments across several projects and maintain priorities within a steady daily workflow.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Pro, web browser-based interfaces, and Macintosh OS.
- In-depth interest and knowledge of Sports and Entertainment.
About RYZ Labs:
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.
Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.
At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.
Our values and what to expect:
- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.
- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.
- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility.
- Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.
- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less
- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way.
- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.
Originally posted on Himalayas
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