Graphic Designer
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MGA Entertainment is one of the largest and fastest growing privately held toy and entertainment companies in the world. Headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices globally, the company creates innovative, proprietary, and licensed consumer products and entertainment properties, including toys, games, dolls, apparel, consumer electronics, home décor, stationery, sporting goods, movies, and television series. The MGA family includes award-winning brands such as L.O.L. Surprise!™, Little Tikes®, Rainbow High™, Shadow High™, Bratz®, MGA’s Miniverse™, Fluffie Stuffiez™ , Na! Na! Na! Surprise™, Micro Games of America™, Baby born® Surprise and Zapf Creation®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgae.com or check us out at LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Mission: Complete projects assigned; from initial stage to completion with insight and vision
Key Result Areas
1. Provide support to our sales department by providing retail display renderings and mockup in store presence. 60%
2. Partner with internal and external resources, ensuring consistent brand standards and quality is met. Provide vision and brand expertise across all MGA properties. 30%
3. Conceptualize new ways to reach our consumers 10%
TOTAL TIME UTILIZATION 100%
Position Requirements
Education/Experience:
– Degree in Graphics/Design/Art (or equivalent training) preferred and/or min 5 years related work experience
– Retail POP displays design experience.
– Manufacturing experience in either China or other major manufacturing country.
Key Result Areas and Activities
– Develop and design engaging in store activations
– Work with marketing and sales leads to enhance product development.
– Work with factory and internal teams to manage production process.
– Work with global teams to ensure local market needs are met including the management of translations, and design specifications.
– Evaluate market and brand trends and incorporate into line development.
– Complete assigned projects, achieving project directives with a high degree of independence and creativity.
– Demonstrate excellent ability to draw, illustrate and design in various media and styles.
– Have strong knowledge of retail displays
– Possess the ability to provide visual interpretations/stylizations of characters appropriate to trends and product needs without compromising brand integrity.
– Ensure art requirements are satisfied while maintaining and/or raising the MGA creative standards.
– Ability to communicate with requestors, Manager/designers/team members technically and creatively using industry standard terminology.
– Communicate and liaise with internal teams (PD, packaging, web, licensing, legal, and styleguide).
– Must be able to spot emerging art/design trends and have flexible art styles and apply to art where applicable.
– Work according to project briefing, creative vision and direction from requestor/Manager.
– Can handle multiple assignments and changing priorities within a deadline driven environment.
– Bring ideas into action. Offering ideas to accomplish internal and external work resulting in working smarter and producing quality work within MGA’s standards.
– Operate with an on-going curiosity about emerging trends in the industry through research, observation, print media, and runway.
– Make sound decisions using MGA’s best practices.
– Ability to quickly learn new programs
– Promote a strong sense of teamwork by working together effectively, respectfully and efficiently.
– Solve problems using critical and creative thinking.
– Performs other duties as assigned.
Skills/Knowledge/Ability:
– Demonstrate good judgment and decision making
– Prefer to have thorough working knowledge of color and composition
– Expert working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite. Excel is a plus
– Great organizational and time management skills
– Extremely detail-oriented
– Active listener
– Great visualization skills
– Strong communication skills
– Creative problem solver
– Motivated self-starter and proactive thinker/doer in a fast paced environment
– Friendly, people oriented team player willing and able to move from project to project
– Able to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities
– A sense of urgency and a strong, efficient work ethic
– Displays flexibility, a sense of humor and positive attitude
– Well versed in Mac, Photoshop & Illustrator
Salary:
$65,000.00 – $80,000.00 /year