Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Reporting

Location:

Chicago - 345 North Morgan

75,

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries., we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we’re a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves henticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

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Product Designer will sit within our
Global Product Design
team.

Love toys? Great. Love collecting? Even greater! This is not just a toy design role.

We’re looking for a creative product designer/developer with a strong fandom for
collectibles
, gaming, lifestyle and fashion products at their core. An interest in how sport, music and entertainment influences culture would also be a welcomed. Someone who understands that modern collectability, play and brand engagement live far beyond just the toy and games aisle.

In our quest, we’d love to meet designers who are culturally fluent and visually confident; people inspired as much by fashion drops, sneaker culture, sport, music, gaming and streetwear merch as by blind box collectibles and
kidult
toys. You will help shape product-led ideas and experiences that resonate with older kids, teens, Gen-Z and kidult audiences, while remaining grounded in manufacturable, scalable reality for mass market promotions.

You will support and influence the Global Family Business Unit, across the end-to-end process, from early ideation through development and production, with a particular emphasis on
bringing product concepts to life
,
visual storytelling and sell-in thinking
. This role requires a strong creative mind and a real passion for bringing concepts to life as collectibles that will be coveted and cherished by the consumer.

• Generate fast, original
  physical products, collectibles and experience concepts
  in response to campaign strategy briefs, dovetailing thinking with cultural moments, trends, brand, consumer and market insights
• Bring
  play, lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, sport and kidult insights
  into creative sprints, ideation and innovation sessions
• Help
  identify global and local market trends
  and translate them into relevant product opportunities
• Immerse yourself in the world of
  retail brands, licensing and IP
  to support internal teams and client understanding

• Communicate ideas clearly
  through appropriate mixed-media tools: mood boards, sketches, digital visuals, proof-of-concept renders and physical prototypes
• Create
  visually engaging presentations and concept
  boards that bring ideas to life
• Write
  clear, compelling copy
  that explains design thinking rationalise and strategic intent
• Develop
  creative concepts into compelling,
  high perceived-value products
• Balance creativity with
  real-world commercial checks, including,
  cost
  ,
  manufacturing
  ,
  safety
  and
  sustainability

• Solve complex design and engineering challenges with cross-functional teams
• Produce red-line draw-overs, 3D prints and prototype/sketch models to communicate solutions effectively
• Work alongside peers across, brand partnerships, account, strategy, creative, digital, engineering, delivery and supply chain teams
• Support senior…