At Jazwares, we believe an innovative idea can come from anywhere, and anyone. We work collaboratively to achieve our goals and we have fun doing it! Jazwares, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading global toy manufacturer with an award-winning, robust portfolio of wholly owned and licensed brands. Founded in 1997, Jazwares celebrates imaginative play with a progressive focus on identifying new and relevant trends to transform into high-quality products for consumers of all ages. Jazwares engages consumers through innovative play experiences with popular brands such as Squishmallows, Pokémon, Star Wars, CoComelon, Fortnite, AEW, Adopt Me!, Hello Kitty, and many more. In addition to toys, offerings also include Metaverse gaming, costumes, and products for pets. Headquartered in Sunrise, Florida, Jazwares has offices worldwide and sells its products in over 100 countries.
As the Product Design Manager in our Girls division, you will manage the successful design and development of assigned licensed products while demonstrating creative thinking and innovation on a wide variety of projects to support and align with brand strategies and objectives. Working closely with internal cross functional departments and external partners you will be tasked to deliver on innovative and exciting toy product(s) that are fun to play with! Additionally, you will manage junior design staff as well as external vendors to keep product designs on schedule and within budget.
What you will do:
- Manage projects through the entire design, development, and QC/QA processes; being conscientious of cost, quality, and schedule
- Manage external vendor partnerships
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects within design specifications
- Work collaboratively with your branding, product management, engineering, packaging, licensing, and other internal and external team partners to create product that is innovative
- 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
- Support the overall strategic goals of product within a brand providing direction and feedback during the development process that is attentive to licensor and internal brand needs
- Successfully evolve from concept through initial ideation, refinement, prototype execution and turn over packages to development teams
- Champion great design in our products and help assure they are within target cost and QA/QC requirements with very little supervision
- Collaborate closely and provide continuous feedback to internal cross functional departments during all phases of development
- Develop product documentation and specifications sheets to send to the Asia team for development
- Provide support to Senior leadership team
- Prepare and lead meetings, track schedules, manage action items for the team
- Act as a trainer, mentor and coach for jr staff members
- Manage project assignments and resource allocation
- Participate in all stages of the employee life cycle
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor’s Degree in toy design, industrial design, industrial engineering, or industry relevant field
- 5+ years of product design or other relevant experiencein toy/dolls/Consumer Products
- 3+ years of experience working with global manufacturing factories (Asia preferred)
- 1+ years of leadership experience
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office & G-Suite
- Expertise in control drawings and rendered illustration of concepts
- Strong proficiency in adobe creative suite (illustrator, photoshop, and indesign) and other graphic design software
- Leadership skills: able to train, coach, mentor, motivate, inspire and develop others
- High level of autonomy and resourcefulness
- Exceptional presentation skills; must be comfortable presenting to members at all levels of the organization and at industry events
- Proven expertise in control drawings and rendered illustration of concepts
Salary range for this position: $100,000.00 – $110,000.00/Yr. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, peer and market data, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. The successful candidate may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. Jazwares offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave, Parental Leave and Vacation), Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees.
JAZWARES is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, age, military status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.
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