Senior Designer, Toys & Hardlines — Hybrid

confidential; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

NBCUniversal’s UDX Franchise, Products & Partnerships is seeking a Senior Designer to oversee end-to-end creative and product development across puzzles, activities, party goods, and packaging. You will drive design excellence, innovation and commercial success, partnering with retailers to deliver market-ready products aligned with brand priorities.

You will lead a cross-functional team, shape licensing and brand stewardship, and translate entertainment IP into market-ready product lines while

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional graphic design experience, consumer products and licensing industry preferred.
• Mastery of industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) alongside Keynote and/or PowerPoint
• Understand product development and retail timelines, from concept approval through in-store delivery.
• Use brand and category expertise to identify trends and translate strategy into market-ready product lines.
• Demonstrate strong concept-to-execution design capability across toys, hardlines, and consumer products.
• Translate brand guidelines, character stylization, and entertainment intellectual property into market-ready designs.
• Provide effective creative direction while safeguarding character and property integrity.
• Review prototypes, samples, and pre-production builds to maintain design integrity.
• Create production-ready specifications, artwork files, and presentation materials.
• Use visual storytelling and presentation skills to advocate for ideas internally and externally.
• Understand packaging structures, brand design elements, toy functionality, and product instructions.
• Apply relevant market trends to opportunities for Universal intellectual property.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee product development across puzzles, activities, party goods, and packaging, ensuring brand integrity, quality, and commercial relevance.
• Provide decisive creative direction to internal and external partners, establishing clear decisions and next steps.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing creative culture that encourages innovation, professional growth, and thoughtful risk-taking.
• Drive creative excellence while optimizing processes, timelines, and resources to align design development with business objectives and key milestones.
• Conceptualize and develop compelling, differentiated product ranges across categories.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to advance business initiatives and strategies.

Skills

Graphic design

Licensing knowledge

Brand integrity

Presentation skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design/illustration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Keynote

PowerPoint

Job description

NBCUniversal’s UDX Franchise, Products & Partnerships is seeking a Senior Designer to oversee end-to-end creative and product development across puzzles, activities, party goods, and packaging. You will drive design excellence, innovation and commercial success, partnering with retailers to deliver market-ready products aligned with brand priorities.

You will lead a cross-functional team, shape licensing and brand stewardship, and translate entertainment IP into market-ready product lines while