Sarah Schauf Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

Supports an evolving marketing strategy with scalable brand concepts to increase engagement and revenue through client leads and donor relations. Leads art direction, graphic design, photography, copywriting, shot lists, scripts, video production and oversight of all collateral material including: informational brochures, presentations, reports, tradeshow event materials, email newsletters, signage, advertisements, and promotional videos. Manages the organization’s visual brand identity in partnership with internal and external teams. Manages marketing project workflow for team efficiency and success. Creates marketing campaigns, delivery schedules and dashboard reports. Analyzes content performance metrics across all channels. Works independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Supports social awareness, fundraising initiatives and community partnerships for the organization in the Greater Milwaukee Area. Plays a key role in fostering collaboration and participation within the Milwaukee creative communities, especially among freelancers and local business owners.

Milwaukee, Wi

Collaborates with local business owners, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, local musicians and film producers to plan, design and execute branding and marketing materials, set props and costumes, that align with each client’s vision, including but not limited to: logo design, branding, photography, brand style guides, illustration, signage, printed materials, album covers, marketing collateral, product packaging, movie props; and online presence, including website development, digital graphics and social media management.

Milwaukee, Wi

Personal creative project focused on designing enamel pins, embroidered patches and locally-focused items. Designs include local landmarks and riffs on brewery culture. This endeavor is all about making the Milwaukee flair I want to see in the world.Instagram @thoughtfultypewww.etsy.com/shop/ThoughtfulTypeDesign

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Plays a crucial role on the production team of the reality TV show, “Top Chef” season 21 in Milwaukee as an Assistant Production Office Coordinator preparing, distributing and collecting appearance releases, location releases and other necessary legal documents from participating locations, guests and general public throughout the course of the reality TV show filming in Wisconsin. Coordinates with the producers and the field production team to greet and host service staff and up to 150 guest diners. Maintains strong attention to detail in creating an organized database for all releases, ensuring easy access for reference and compliance purposes. Serves as a lead to 5-40 production assistants in field locations, including managing grocery store shops, the mobile production office, and coordinating meals for up to 150 crew members.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Leads communication and outreach for Girls Rock MKE, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that hosts summer music camps for youth, in partnership with the part-time Director staff team. Responsible for all marketing initiatives, including the planning of annual communication strategy and calendars in alignment with the Board of Directors, Fundraising Committee and Marketing Committee across all channels. Supports the organization's volunteer base by providing written content for branded emails, press releases, social media posts and digital campaigns, offline print marketing material such as flyers, brochures or mailers, web based stories and blogs. Drives community outreach through the initiation of new collaborations within the Milwaukee music scene. Helps to identify and support opportunities for new content that advances organizational objectives. Supports the Board of Directors in fundraising activities, including identifying strategies for cultivation, solicitation and stewardship efforts.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Leads communication and outreach for Girls Rock MKE, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that hosts summer music camps for youth, through both physical and digital media. Creates original content and events to promote the organization's website, email newsletter, and social media platforms. Coordinates with the Program Director, Volunteer Director and a group of dedicated volunteers to spearhead fundraising efforts, camp planning, camp operations, community outreach, marketing and public relations, financial oversight, music equipment maintenance, technology advocacy and facility caretaking.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Spearheads communication efforts for the volunteer team that puts on two, week-long summer camps for youth. Creates content for social media channels. Designs digital graphics, camper booklets, brochures and flyers. Manages and updates website via Squarespace. Contributes to the camp coordination team who organizes and oversees a fun, successful day camp for up to 50 youth participants and 30 volunteers per session.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Designs merchandise and apparel for the organization. Creates custom icons, graphics and branded content for use by an integrated volunteer team. Leads ordering efforts and vendor communication. Maintains updated inventory of all merchandise and apparel. Communicates with local artists to create artwork for the organization.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Created event artwork, digital displays, video content and external advertising for The Pabst Theater Group's 600+ annual shows and private events at its six independently-run venues in downtown Milwaukee, Wis. including the Riverside Theater, the Pabst Theater, Turner Hall Ballroom, The Back Room @ Colectivo, the Miller High Life Theatre and The Fitzgerald.Developed an internal project management process (and software system) to effectively aggregate and delegate a large volume of design project tasks among a team of designers. Lead delegation of projects and workload to immediate design team. Coordinated with marketing coordinators, ad buyers and social media managers to output necessary marketing collateral in a fast-paced environment.Designed custom logos, branding, signage, websites and sale-sheets for venues and special events. Lead internal design team in maintaining the visual brand and aesthetic of each event venue through signs, menus, posters, digital TV screens, wayfinding, merchandise and apparel.The Pabst Theater Group hosts over 700 live events annually at its six core venues, the Pabst Theater, the Riverside Theater, Miller High Life Theatre, Turner Hall Ballroom, The Fitzgerald, the Back Room @ Colectivo (in partnership with Colectivo Coffee) and Vivarium. Additionally, the group hosts shows at the Fiserv Forum, UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena and Bradley Symphony Center. The Pabst Theater Group has a financial impact on the city exceeding $250 million and spends $1.3 million in marketing annually, helping to build community, loyalty and reinforce identity and heritage for Milwaukee while employing a total of 350 full and part-time staff. www.pabsttheatergroup.com

Greater Milwaukee Area

Photographs graduation ceremonies with a team, including individual portraits of 75-500 students, in high school, undergraduate and post-graduate levels, on-site at large theater and auditorium venues across the Midwest.

Lombard, Illinois, United States

Creates content for the business's website and social media platforms, including web banners, animated GIFs, Instagram stories and social tiles to promote product through digital marketing campaigns. Edits and maintains internal templates for retail signage and price tags. Merges pricing data from Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign. Designs graphics for email campaigns, flash sales and website landing pages.

Manages the public perception of a startup consulting firm in the insurance technology SaaS industry. Ideates and maintains the brand of the company as a whole, including creating content libraries and style guides. Researches and develops marketing strategies, ensuring a consistent voice of the company across all channels, directed to appropriate audiences. Plans, directs and coordinates all communications efforts -- both internally to team members and externally to clients and publications. Collaborates with internal team to create SOPs, roadmaps, project plans, process charts, training materials and presentations. Manages the company website, including all text copy content, blogs and imagery. Developed four social media channels from their inception, managing the curation and production of all company content to exponentially grow follower reach and maintain an average 7% engagement on posts.

Serves a dual role as both the internal marketing & design lead for the consulting firm and the external product-owner of all visual information needs for each client, including Powerpoint and Google Slide presentations, white pages, infographics, sitemaps, process workflows, wireframes, technical documents and user interface prototypes. Manages website content on Wix and Wordpress platforms. Translates key client needs into custom Salesforce page layouts, user interface graphics and interactive elements. Develops standard components, document templates, one sheets, sales proposals and style-guides to uphold the integrity of communicated information and all company branding.

Menomonee Falls, Wi

Creates and develops content for all areas of digital marketing including email, websites and online advertising campaigns, appearing both internally on Kohls.com and externally on third party websites. Makes revisions to design layouts, website equities and marketing collateral. Maintains and updates image libraries. Prepares files to pass on to production partners. Slices emails for dynamic content and GIF image placement.(Freelance Digital Production Designer for Kohl's Corporate Office via Creative Circle.)

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Photographs children, grades Pre-K to 12, and staff with a mobile studio, on-site at elementary, middle and high schools for school identification and yearbooks. Communicates with each subject on posture and grooming for ideal images. Coordinates with school staff to establish daily schedules and student flow. Manages groups of students and volunteers, upwards of 50 people at a time. Serves as a sales liaison for the organization, answering questions about photo packages and delivery, ongoing communication and future events.

Milwaukee, Wi

Creates custom visual branding for interior points of sale, fundraising and trade show events as well as exterior marketing opportunities for local businesses. Manages wayfinding signage projects for new architectural developments. Maintains the highest quality of digital printing and production standards to ensure accurate execution of each project. Provides finishing touches to various sign display materials including graphic application and product install.Primary designer & production manager for:• Marcus Center for the Performing Arts• Milwaukee Art Museum (Show Banners & Signage)• City of Milwaukee (Bioswales, Health Centers & Laboratories)• New Land Enterprises (Encore, Rhythm, Trio Apartments)• Dermond Properties (Artesa - Mequon Apartments & Vue - Bay View Apartments)• Greenfire Management (Forge & Flare Apartments)

Wisconsin & Illinois

June 2016: Assistant Photographer at Loren & Nate Rowley's wedding on the Stevens family farm in Hubertus (Holy Hill), WI — Documented the events of the day with stills and video, including the outdoor ceremony, group portraits and celebration afterwards.September 2013: TriRock Triathalon Series/Competitor Group — Documented the events of the day, including athletes competing and sponsors present.May 2012: Elmhurst College Public Affairs Office — Shot a group of students working on a local house as a part of Habitat for Humanity.

Menomonee Falls, Wi

Retouches product photos for the Kids E-Commerce Department to ensure the accurate depiction of items on Kohls.com. Partners with in-house teams to obtain product color swatches, images and video for use on the website and within marketing materials. Partners with external vendors to secure vendor-created imagery for products featured online. Provides daily support on styling standards and the photo delivery process.

Lake Geneva, Wi

Designs advertisements for local businesses to appear in both print and online editions of the paper. Creates infographics, maps, charts and illustrations for visual storytelling. Maintains brand identity of the publication through consistent layout and design standards across weekly editions and special supplements. Uploads content to website platform and promotes content through social media outlets.

Chicago, Il

Solicits press kits and visual content from promoters for inclusion in the weekly publication. Retouches photography for both print and web usage. Assists photography editor during off-site shoots. Documents local events and featured locations for print and online publication.

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Il

Designs editorial content and advertising for biweekly publication. Coordinates with fellow senior staff to generate story ideas and editorial voice. Manages design staff, including illustration assignments. Maintains publication style throughout each issue.

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Il

Manages student-run website through WordPress content management system in order to self-publish future content. Uploads entire issue after each print publication. Generates website traffic through social media posts and best SEO practices.

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Il

Designs editorial content and advertising for biweekly publication. Coordinates with fellow senior staff to generate story ideas and editorial voice. Manages design staff, including illustration assignments. Maintains publication style throughout each issue.

B.F.A., Graphic Design, Photography

Activities and Societies: The Leader Newspaper, MiddleWestern Voice Magazine, Art Club, Symphonic Band

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Art Club, Big Foot Theater Company, Jazz Band, Math Club, National Honor Society, Student Council, Symphonic Band