Manager, Graphic Design
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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: Develop and design the aesthetics, visual design and layout of MGA Entertainment brand websites and digital content.
Position Requirements
Education/Experience:
– Degree or formal training in graphic design, web development, fine arts, digital animation, or related field.
– 7+ years of experience as a web graphic designer with at least three years experience in a lead role.
– Knowledge of children’s online a plus.
– Experience at a toy/entertainment/media company preferred.
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
– Demonstrated ability to conceptualize creative and engaging web design.
– Knowledge of technical design and structure of web projects, including the production of digital images, video, games, and multimedia pieces optimized for the web.
– Adept with the suite of Adobe tools, especially Photoshop and Illustrator.
– Experience in HTML5, Flash, ActionScript, CSS, and JavaScript.
– UI and UX design experience.
– Experience or knowledge in responsive web design.
– Strong verbal and written communication skills.
– Adept at problem solving and able to adapt quickly to changing business needs/timelines to make decisions and meet quality standards.
– Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
– Self-starter with high level of initiative, strong work ethic, quick learner.
– Team player.
Desired Skills:
– Understanding of children’s content.
– Knowledge of brand development.
– Enthusiastic game player.
Key Result Areas and Activities
1. Design
– Develop and design the aesthetics, visual design and layout of MGA Entertainment brand websites and digital content.
– Create design comps, promos, emails and web pages that reflect the brand style guides.
– Assist with game and mobile app design comps and assets.
– Establish and implement current industry best practices and standards for all web design.
– Research and recommend trending web design, layouts and interface to enhance user experience.
– Mentors and assists other graphic designers on team.
2. Administrative
– Update work progress in task tracking software
– Perform other assignments as requested