Senior Toy Designer
About the role
This is not just a toy design role. We’re looking for a creative product designer/developer with a strong fandom for collectibles, gaming, lifestyle and fashion products at their core. An interest in how sport, music and entertainment influences culture would also be welcomed. Someone who understands that modern collectability, play and brand engagement live far beyond just the toy and games aisle.
Responsibilities
- Help shape product-led ideas and experiences that resonate with older kids, teens, Gen-Z and kidult audiences, while remaining grounded in manufacturable, scalable reality for mass market promotions
- Support and influence the Global Family Business Unit across the end-to-end process, from early ideation through development and production
- Bring product concepts to life with a particular emphasis on visual storytelling and sell-in thinking
Qualifications
- Culturally fluent and visually confident
- Inspired by fashion drops, sneaker culture, sport, music, gaming and streetwear merch as well as blind box collectibles and kidult toys
- Strong creative mind with a real passion for bringing concepts to life as collectibles that will be coveted and cherished by the consumer
Pay
$75,000-80,000
Schedule
Hybrid
About the company
tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery. Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald's, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.