Product Designer - Licensing

3-month contract, 40 hours per week – fully remote.

About the role

Our client, a well-known fashion and lifestyle brand, is seeking a Licensed Product Designer to bring licensed brands, characters, franchises, and fandoms to life through innovative consumer products. This role is ideal for a designer who understands pop culture, entertainment, gaming, and fan communities, and has a strong eye for graphics, branding, and storytelling. Experience designing licensed products across footwear, accessories, apparel, bags, backpacks, purses, or related consumer product categories is required. A strong understanding of brand guidelines, style guides, and visual identity systems is essential.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.

Responsibilities

• Design licensed products inspired by entertainment, gaming, sports, lifestyle, and character-based brands
• Translate brand guidelines and licensing assets into compelling product concepts and graphics
• Create sketches, renderings, mood boards, presentations, and visual storytelling materials
• Develop graphics and product concepts across footwear, accessories, apparel, and related categories
• Partner with licensing, product development, sourcing, and manufacturing teams throughout the design process
• Support brand approval processes and ensure consistency across all deliverables
• Research trends in fashion, streetwear, gaming, entertainment, fandom, and pop culture
• Contribute creative ideas that balance fan appeal, brand authenticity, and commercial success

Requirements

• 2+ years of product design experience in licensing, consumer products, footwear, accessories, apparel, merchandise, or related fields
• Experience working with licensed brands, characters, franchises, or entertainment properties
• Strong graphic design and visual communication skills
• Ability to interpret and apply brand guidelines, style guides, and creative toolkits
• Experience creating product concepts, renderings, presentations, mood boards, and storytelling assets
• Understanding of consumer product development and manufacturing processes
• Familiarity with CAD, 3D design tools, or product visualization software
• Strong collaboration, organization, and project management skills
• Portfolio showcasing licensed products, graphics, branding, or consumer product design work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with footwear, streetwear, apparel, accessories, handbags, backpacks, or purses
• Experience designing products for entertainment, gaming, sports, anime, character, or lifestyle brands
• Knowledge of fan culture, collectibles, and pop culture trends
• Experience supporting licensor approval processes
• Background working with consumer brands and retail products

Benefits

• Eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan
• Sick leave provided to candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws