Senior Designer

Reporting to Director Design you will contribute to the development and design of our Collectibles & or Wheels & Action toys and work hand in hand with North America Design Team Asia Engineering and Product Development teams to help deliver multiple product lines that exceeds the business and customers expectations.

What will you work on

• Act as a bridge assisting the North America Design teams to drive their vision through development.

• Work closely with Engineering teams model shops and vendors to provide on site design input on products through all stages of development (from initial briefing through model making to production).

• Lead proof of concept models build for feasibility review CAD files and models.

• Support med-high complexity items with Design inputs that focus on aesthetics play patterns providing clearvisual and written communication with suggested improvement commentsthroughout the development stages.

• Support low-med complexity items Design spec creation & updates throughout development.

• Prioritize area of focus amongmultipleprojects & brands base on biggest business impact with limited oversight from manager.

• Support and participate in strategic initiatives/technical workshops/facilitate sharing session within team & across functional teams.

• Lead by example coaches/reviews the work of lower-level professionals with an active focus on imparting expertise potentially setting goals and objectives for team members to help achieve operational results.

• Perform other duties include new product ideas generation to support North America D&D.

• Travel to China and other locations in Asia will be required.

What are your skills and experience

• University undergraduate in Product toy Industrial Design or equivalent.

• At least 5 years design experience (toy industry preferred).

• Experienced working with remote design teams in North America active listening/ providing proposals /alignment skillsandwith excellentverbal communication during VC calls.

• Experienced working on a wide range of product types within the Preschool or Wheels & Action category.

• Ability to interpret design intent with a thorough understanding of play pattern and a very strong aesthetic sense.

• Skilled in designoptimization for manufacture including DFA DFC

• Strong knowledge of decoration and manufacturing methods.

• Strong knowledge of costing able to read and understand quote sheets and provide cost down suggestions maintaining play pattern and feature hierarchy.

• Basic to good tooling knowledge. What design factors can reduce part count or help increase tooling capacity and provide design adjustment suggestions to leverage these.

• Good material knowledge (including plastics and any category specific materials).

• Experienced in providing clearvisual and written communication with suggested actionable commentsto crossfunctional team members.

• Clear communicator in English both written and spoken.

• A proactive collaborative & growth mindset with a professional mature attitude recognized by others.

• Effectively communicates and collaborates with cross functional teams & build strong relationships with cross functional peers.

• Know when and how to escalate challenges promptly and keeps leadership informed of critical updates.

• Intellectually curious always striving to learn more and do better regardless of where the ideas come from.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

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!

Whats 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 isnt 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 or by phone at852 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.