Designer, Moonbug Entertainment
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Entertainment company for kids
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Entertainment company for kids
501-1000 employees
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More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create shows that kids & parents love.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is comfortable trending, designing and illustrating, understands how creative assets need to function in a licensing environment, and can take projects from concept through production-ready execution
- 4+ years of professional experience in graphic design, illustration, packaging, consumer products, entertainment, or a related creative field
- Strong portfolio demonstrating illustration, graphic design, layout, pattern development, and packaging capabilities
- Experience developing licensed consumer products style guides strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of designing within established brand guidelines while still bringing fresh creative thinking
- Ability to translate a creative brief into a cohesive visual system rather than simply executing individual graphics
- Strong understanding of color, typography, composition, hierarchy, pattern, and visual storytelling
- Experience preparing professional production-ready files for external partners
- Experience designing collections of digital product mock-ups
- Comfortable working within fast-moving creative 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
- The Contract Designer / Illustrator will support the development of creative assets for licensed consumer products preschool brands. This role will work closely with the CP&E Creative and Product Development teams to create brand-right, trend-relevant artwork, style guides, packaging, and graphic assets that translate successfully across a wide range of consumer product categories
- Experience working with kids, preschool, entertainment, character, or lifestyle brands is highly preferred
- Support the development of seasonal, core, retail, and thematic licensed consumer products style guides
- Create original graphics, illustrations, patterns, icons, badges, typography treatments, borders, backgrounds, and supporting design elements
- Develop compelling character compositions and storytelling moments using approved character assets
- Translate creative direction, seasonal trends, and brand strategy into cohesive visual collections
- Build color palettes, graphic systems, pattern families, editorial treatments, and product-ready artwork
- Develop artwork that can translate across multiple categories including apparel, accessories, home, toys, stationery, hardlines, and softlines
- Prepare organized, production-ready asset packages for licensee and partner use
- Explore multiple creative directions quickly through sketches, thumbnails, and concept development
- 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 artwork meets brand, legal, technical, and production requirements
- Support special projects including retail presentations, product concepts, key art, trend boards, and partner-facing creative materials as needed
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
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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