Lead the Pokémon Plastics design team to shape the future of one of the world's most popular brands by managing the design, development, and quality control of new products.
Requirements
- 5 - 8 years of product design experience, preferably within collectibles, hard goods toy product development.
- 5 - 8 years of experience working with global manufacturing factories (Asia preferred).
- Strong portfolio showcasing a range of product designs, with a focus on plush or soft goods.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to handle a large volume of SKUs.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign) and other graphic design software.
- Expertise in managing multiple form factors, including collector figures, plush toys, and action figures.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects through the entire design, development, and QC/QA processes; being conscientious of cost, quality, and schedule
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects within design specifications
- Generate new toy concepts to enhance the brand
- Responsible for completing, reviewing, submitting, and providing comments for Illustrative turns, 3D sculpts, paint masters, and sample reviews.
- Successfully evolve from concept through initial ideation, refinement, prototype executio,n and turn over packages to development teams
- Develop product documentation and specifications sheets to send to the Asia team for development
- Manage project assignments and resource allocation
Other
- Manage external vendor partnerships
- Work collaboratively with your branding, product management, engineering, packaging, licensing, and other internal and external team partners to create an innovative product
- Support the overall strategic goals of the product within a brand, providing direction and feedback during the development process that is attentive to licensor and internal brand needs
- Champion great design in our products and help assure they are within target cost and QA/QC requirements with very little supervision.
- Excellent people and partner management abilities, fostering strong relationships with internal teams and external partners.
