Senior Designer, Toys

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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51 - 200 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

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📋 Description

• Lead creative design and concept development for Comfrt’s expanding toy category • Develop original, playful, nostalgic, and emotionally engaging toy concepts reflecting Comfrt’s brand identity • Create characters, shapes, silhouettes, expressions, textures, and interactive features • Explore plush, weighted, sensory, squishy, novelty, collectible, and comfort-focused toy categories • Develop character personalities, stories, and distinctive design details • Translate consumer insights, trends, and market opportunities into commercially viable concepts • Present creative direction through mood boards, hand sketches, digital illustrations, renderings, material boards, and physical prototypes • Establish cohesive design languages and recognizable product families • Own the end-to-end design process through production-ready approval • Create technical packages, illustrations, multi-view drawings, specifications, and factory instructions • Design plush patterns, soft sculptures, dimensional forms, and other toy constructions • Specify materials, fillings, weights, textures, sensory components, embroidery, prints, attachments, and functional features • Research materials, manufacturing techniques, and product innovations • Work with manufacturers to translate concepts into physical samples • Review prototypes and provide sample comments and revisions • Ensure designs meet cost targets, production requirements, toy safety, testing, and regulatory requirements • Monitor toy, entertainment, pop culture, lifestyle, and adjacent-category trends • Identify whitespace opportunities and concepts for kids and adults • Partner with Product leadership to establish product direction, priorities, and seasonal assortments • Collaborate with Product Development, Sourcing, Merchandising, Marketing, and Quality teams • Work with domestic and overseas suppliers to resolve design challenges and accelerate development • Manage multiple projects against aggressive timelines • Maintain design documentation, technical packages, and sample approvals • Communicate progress, priorities, and challenges across a remote cross-functional team • Incorporate feedback while maintaining creative judgment and ownership

🎯 Requirements

• 8–10+ years of professional experience in toy design, plush design, character product design, or highly relevant adjacent categories • Experience at an established toy-relevant brand or consumer product company that has successfully scaled its business, product assortment, and distribution • Proven experience designing commercially successful toys or character-driven consumer products • Experience taking original concepts from ideation through factory development and production • Strong understanding of toy design, construction, materials, manufacturing processes, and technical development • Advanced skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with strong digital sketching, illustration, and rendering capabilities • Strong proficiency in creating comprehensive technical design packages for manufacturing • Experience working directly with overseas factories and managing multiple sample iterations • Familiarity with toy safety standards, material performance, testing considerations, and age-appropriate design • Strong understanding of cost-conscious design and designing for scalable manufacturing • Portfolio demonstrating outstanding creativity, strong character development, original concepts, and successful commercial products • Strong communication and presentation skills • Ability to influence and inspire cross-functional partners and leadership • Ability to handle ambiguity, changing priorities, and differing opinions with confidence and professionalism • Ability to build strong relationships across cross-functional teams and work effectively with diverse personalities and perspectives • Ability to combine creativity with organization, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and disciplined execution • Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, or high-growth consumer brand environment • Proven ability to work effectively and independently in a remote environment • Portfolio submission required

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off • Company-covered health insurance • 5% 401k match • Discounts on all Comfrt products • Fully remote work environment • Supportive, creative environment where ideas and growth are valued

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