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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?
At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!
Job Description:
What will you work on?
The Senior Designer works closely with the Director, Brand Design on new brand initiatives and collaborates with Sr. Creative and Brand management to set creative strategy on key brands and individual items in the Early Learning category.
The Senior Designer role is primarily execution focused with new brand concepts and other brand extensions. This role will support the Early Learning category by providing line extensions to new brands and is the main point person for those particular brands. The Senior Designer is responsible for package design through production on 2 or 3 core brands 70% of the time and works on other brands and / or new brand concepts 30% of the time
How will you create impact?
- Working under the art direction of the Director, Brand Design, you will create branding and packaging design concepts that support brand strategies.
- Work with production team to ensure integrity of design in final deliverables.
- Effectively communicate all project related progress/issues or concerns to the Director, Brand Design and Project Management in a timely and professional manner.
- Solicit creative direction from key team members on the product development team and marketing team in a timely manner.
- Develop marketing support materials, creative boards and layout presentations for new and existing business development presentations
- Develop digital marketing assets where required.
- Collaborate with Production, Structural Engineering, Marketing, Quality Control and Product Development teams as well as overseas agents, as necessary, in the package development and approval process.
- With support from the photo studio team, direct and manage photoshoots when needed for packaging development
- Manage 1-2 freelance designers
What are your skills and experience?
- Consumer products industry; toy package design preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.
- Working knowledge of 3D, Keyshot, and Esko Software a BIG plus
- Soft aesthetic that aligns with Early Learning baby/preschool brand
- Ideally someone with experience in the Early Learning category, even if that is simply personal experience over professional experience
- Enthusiastic designer with a strong appetite for co-creating brands and sharing the opinions with a diverse group of cross-functional creatives.
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What you can expect from us:
Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.
- Growth and Career Opportunities
- Flexible Work Hours
- Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Other fun Perks!
What’s it like to work here?
Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.
Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.
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What We Do
Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company creating exceptional play experiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative toys, entertainment franchises and digital games. Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals® and GUND®, and is the toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, stories and endearing characters through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool success PAW Patrol and 10 other television series, which are distributed in more than 160 countries. The Company has an established digital presence anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, which combined have more than 25 million monthly active users. With over 1,800 employees in 28 offices globally, Spin Master distributes products in more than 100 countries.
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