Senior Design Lead [Contract]

Spin Master; Toronto; Sur place; CAD 114 000 - 151 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Comprehensive Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Growth and Career Opportunities

Innovation and Fun

Résumé du poste

Spin Master is seeking a design leader to drive the creative direction and product development for our Early Learning toy portfolio, including Ms. Rachel. You will lead a team to translate child development insights into innovative, age-appropriate toy experiences.

The role is a 6-month full-time fixed-term contract in Toronto, with compensation aligned to market ranges and comprehensive benefits. You will partner across teams to ensure cost, timeline, and safety standards are met.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree (BFA) in Toy Design, Industrial Design, or a related creative field.
• Professional design leadership experience managing product portfolios and mentoring creative teams.
• Deep expertise in infant, toddler, and early childhood developmental milestones, play patterns, and pediatric safety standards.
• Exceptional sketching, 2D rendering, and storytelling skills to convey brand strategy and concepts.
• Proven ability to coordinate resources, delegate tasks, and drive multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Experience presenting design vision and product roadmaps to senior executives and external partners.

Responsabilités

• Provide daily creative direction and mentorship to the early learning design team.
• Establish visual aesthetics, design standards, and play-experience principles for the portfolio.
• Monitor shifts in kids media and parenting trends to identify whitespace and build pipeline strategy.
• Translate insights into market-viable product concepts, slot strategies, and consumer stories.
• Create and deliver compelling design pitches to secure executive and licensor alignment.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Engineering, Packaging, and Insights to meet cost, timeline, and compliance metrics.
• Work with inventor relations to source and integrate external toy innovations.

Connaissances

Design leadership

Mentoring creative teams

Infant/toddler development

Sketching/rendering

Project management

Executive presentations

Formation

BFA in Toy Design/Industrial Design

Description du poste

Job Description

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

What will you work on?

Under the guidance of the Design Director, you will drive the creative direction, design strategy, and product development for our Early Learning toy portfolio, including our existing Ms. Rachel brand and emerging opportunities. You will lead a team of design experts to translate early childhood milestones and modern parenting insights into innovative, age-appropriate, and developmental toy experiences.

This is a 6 month full-time fixed term contract position.

How will you create impact?

• Provide daily creative direction, design mentorship, and tactical decision-making support across the early learning design team
• Establish overarching visual aesthetics, design standards, and play-experience principles for the brand portfolio
• Monitor global shifts in kids' media, educational models, and parenting trends to identify category whitespace and build pipeline strategy
• Translate consumer and educational insights into market-viable product concepts, slot strategies, and consumer stories
• Create and deliver compelling design pitches and visual presentations to secure executive and licensor alignment
• Partner with Marketing, Engineering, Packaging, and Insights teams to ensure products meet cost, timeline, and compliance metrics
• Collaborate with the internal inventor relations team to source, evaluate, and integrate external toy innovations

What are your skills and experience?

• Undergraduate degree (BFA) in Toy Design, Industrial Design, or a related creative field
• Professional design leadership experience managing product portfolios and mentoring creative teams
• Deep expertise in infant, toddler, and early childhood developmental milestones, play patterns, and pediatric safety standards
• Exceptional sketching, 2D rendering, and storytelling skills to quickly convey brand strategy and physical concepts
• Proven capacity to coordinate resource allocation, delegate tasks, and drive multiple complex projects under tight deadlines
• Experience presenting design vision and product roadmaps to senior executives and major external entertainment partners

The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Toronto is $113,600 to $151,400 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What You Can Expect From Us

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [e-mail] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.