Graphic Designer, Moonbug Entertainment
Licensed Consumer Products, 6 month FTC
$80-120k
5 days a week in office
Entertainment company for kids
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Entertainment company for kids
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$80-120k
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create shows that kids & parents love.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is comfortable researching trends and designing graphics, understands how design needs to function in a licensing and retail environment, and can carry projects from brief through licensor approval to retail-ready execution
- Experience working with kids, preschool, entertainment, licensed character, or lifestyle brands is highly preferred
- 4+ years of professional graphic design experience, ideally in licensed consumer products, packaging, entertainment, or retail
- Strong graphic design portfolio demonstrating layout, typography, pattern development, and packaging capabilities
- Experience developing licensed consumer products style guides strongly preferred. Please include style guide samples in your portfolio
- Strong understanding of designing within established brand guidelines while still bringing fresh design thinking
- Ability to turn a design brief into a cohesive graphic system rather than simply executing individual graphics
- Strong understanding of color, typography, composition, hierarchy, and pattern
- Experience preparing professional production-ready files for licensees, manufacturers, and other external partners
- Experience designing collections of digital product mock-ups
- Comfortable working within fast-moving environments with multiple rounds of feedback
- Knowledge of Mac OSX, Adobe Suite Programs (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
- Ability to work across the needs of a global team
What the job involves
- Thank you for considering the Graphic Designer (Licensed Consumer Products) role with Moonbug Entertainment, an award-winning global entertainment company inspiring kids everywhere to laugh, learn and grow
- The company is behind some of the biggest kids’ entertainment brands in the world including CoComelon and Blippi
- Moonbug believes every child should have access to our entertaining and enriching content, which is why our shows are available on more than 150 video platforms globally including Netflix, Disney+, BBC iPlayer and YouTube Kids
- Moonbug is also a global leader in pre-school music and audio experiences, available on 100+ audio platforms globally
- Moonbug brands extend far beyond the screen to include streaming music, toys, games, books, live events, and even theme park exhibits
- Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises
- The Contract Graphic Designer will support the development of style guides and graphic design for licensed consumer products preschool brands
- This role will work closely with the Consumer Products & Experiences Creative and Product Development team to create brand-right, trend-relevant style guides, packaging, and graphic designs that translate successfully across a wide range of retail consumer product categories
- Approved character art is provided; this is a graphic design role, not a character design or illustration role
- Design and build seasonal, core, retail, and thematic licensed consumer products style guides
- Create original graphics, patterns, icons, badges, typography treatments, borders, backgrounds, and supporting design elements
- Place approved characters into product-ready graphics, layouts, and placements that follow franchise brand standards
- Apply seasonal trends, retail insights, and brand strategy to build cohesive graphic collections
- Build color palettes, graphic systems, pattern families, editorial treatments, and product-ready graphics
- Develop designs that translate across multiple categories including apparel, accessories, home, toys, stationery, hardlines, and softlines
- Prepare organized, production-ready design files and style guide packages for licensee and partner use
- Explore multiple design options quickly through thumbnails, layout concepts, and digital mock-ups
- Incorporate feedback from Creative Product Development, Brand, Franchise, and Legal teams
- Support the development and evolution of licensed packaging systems across multiple product categories
- Work within existing brand standards while identifying opportunities to keep packaging fresh, relevant, and competitive at retail
- Work closely with Creative Directors, Designers, Product Development, and Project Management to meet project timelines and deliverables
- Manage multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail
- Participate in creative reviews and respond efficiently to feedback and revisions
- Ensure designs meet brand, legal, technical, and production requirements
- Support special projects including retail presentations, product concept moc
Our take
Moonbug Entertainment is a global entertainment company producing fun, engaging and safe content for kids. With bases in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug’s video and audio content is produced with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience to its young audience.
The company owns properties including Blippi, Little Baby Bum and CoComelon, content that is distributed around the world on platforms including YouTube and Netflix, with the latter’s first series generating over 30 billion minutes of viewing. Its market presence is strong, with accompanying merchandise sold via Walmart and Amazon, and adjacent offerings such as its CoComelon video game.
Following the acquisition of Singapore-based One Animation, Moonbug has worked to increase its footprint in Asia, as well as making plans to take on South America and the Middle East. A 2023 rebrand helped to raise the profile and recognisability of the brand as it continues both growth and diversification - for instance by partnering with Audible on a series of family-friendly podcasts.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2020
$120m
SERIES B
Dec 2018
$145m
SERIES A
Total funding: $265m
Company HQ
Camden Town, London, UK
Leadership
John Robson
(COO & Co-Founder)Previously served as Executive Vice President of Base79, an Advisor for MTV Networks and Signet, Vice President & General Manager of Global Content for HTC, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Digital Distribution for Paramount Pictures, and served in various Marketing roles for Sainsbury's.
Rene Rechtman
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded NN and CSSE, acting here as Management Consultant. Served as Head of Non-Linear Media for The Walt Disney Company International, President Inter for Maker Studios, CEO for goviral, Vice President and Managing Director for TradeDoubler, Business Development Director for Incentive, and as Account Director for KS Consult.
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