Senior Product Designer

Morgan Street Holdings • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business, realized by creating access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving. The Product Designer will sit within our Global Product Design team. This role is not just a toy design role; we are 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 welcomed. Someone who understands that modern collectability, play and brand engagement live far beyond just the toy and games aisle. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Toy Design, Product Design, Industrial Design or another relevant creative discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years of agency or in-house product/industrial design experience within toys/games, lifestyle/fashion, sport, entertainment or adjacent categories
• Knowledge of global retail brands, licenses, and studios in the consumer product, toy, games, and entertainment categories
• Strong presenter and storyteller, with the ability to deliver concise and engaging presentations using various media – communication is key
• A strong portfolio demonstrating depth and range in concept thinking, cultural awareness, visual storytelling
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat)
• Familiar with Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Sharepoint)
• Agile, hands-on design thinking and problem solving
• Foundational knowledge of 3D modelling, printing, and rendering software (e.g., Fusion 360, Blender, ZBrush, SolidWorks, Freeform, Keyshot, or similar) and experience in character sculpting
• Foundational understanding of basic injection molding processes and designing around value engineering and product safety parameters
• A strong grasp of color theory, an eye for detail, and experience in driving appeal and perceived value

Nice To Haves

• A fan with passion in kidult culture, knowledge of Gen-Z audiences and the toys, collectibles, and lifestyle consumer products that appeal to them
• A true fan of collectibles, toys, and pop-culture
• Understanding of play patterns, and safety standards (EN71/ASTM)
• Curiosity about how consumers engage with both mainstream brands and emerging IP
• Comfortable and confident working in a fast-moving, hybrid and cross-functional environment

Responsibilities

• 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 stakeholder on large scale programs while confidently leading smaller workstreams end-to-end

Benefits

• Our commitment to rewarding results
• Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers’—and our company’s—success
• Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
• Paid parental and medical leave programs
• 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
• 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
• Hybrid work model
• Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
• Inclusive employee resource groups

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior