Senior Designer

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

General

He/she will contribute to the development and design of our Preschool or Wheels Action toys, he/she will work hand in hand with North America Design Teams and Asia Engineering and Product Development teams to help deliver multiple product lines that exceed the business and customer’s expectations.

Specific Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility is to act as a bridge assisting the North America Design teams to drive their vision through development.
• Successful candidate will work closely with Spin Master’s Far East 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)
• Leads proof of concept models build for feasibility, review CAD files and models.
• Supports med-high complexity items with Design inputs that focus on aesthetics, play patterns, providing clear visual and written communication with suggested improvement comments throughout the development stages.
• Supports low-med complexity items’ Design spec creation updates throughout development.
• Able to prioritize area of focus among multiple projects brands base on biggest business impact with limited oversight from manager.
• Supports and participates in strategic initiatives/technical workshops/facilitates sharing session within team across functional teams.
• Leads 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.
• Traveling to China and other locations in Asia will be required.
• Other duties include new product ideas generation to support North America DD.

Required Skill Set

• Experienced working with remote design teams in North America, active listening/ providing proposals/alignment skills and with excellent verbal communication during VC calls.
• Experienced working on a wide range of product types within the Preschool or Wheels Action category.
• Able to interpret design intent with a thorough understanding of play pattern and a very strong aesthetic sense.
• Skilled in design optimization 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 clear visual and written communication with suggested actionable comments to cross-functional team members.
• Clear communicator in English, both written and spoken.
• Has 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.
• Knows when and how to escalate challenges promptly and keeps leadership informed of critical updates.
• Is intellectually curious, always striving to learn more and do better, regardless of where the ideas come from.

Required Qualifications Experience

• University undergraduate in Product, Toy, Industrial Design or equivalent.
• At least 3+ years design experience (Toy industry preferred).

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 TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.