Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer

Thames & Kosmos is looking for a talented, inspired, full-time graphic designer to join our in-house design team. As a graphic designer, you will help us create and market awesome educational toys and games for kids and families. You will be responsible for a wide variety of product- and marketing-related design tasks, including package designs and visual marketing materials.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Design and layout of retail packaging for our products, including structure, and graphics
• Researching packaging trends and determining marketing requirements to inform the design process
• Create beautiful and exciting sets of marketing images to promote our products on all our sales channels
• Collaborate with our sales and marketing teams to create engaging and exciting social media content to drive sales and raise brand awareness
• Photography and creation of beautiful product images for packaging and other applications
• Design of marketing materials such as print ads, sell sheets, presentation decks, promotional items, and catalogs
• Design of signage, displays, and other merchandising materials for retail stores and tradeshows
• Create product renderings from engineering CAD drawings (3D texturing, lighting, and scene composition) for packaging and other applications

Secondary Responsibilities

• Illustration for product packaging, manuals, and marketing materials
• Creating physical prototypes and packaging mockups
• Updates to the company website, both updating/editing copy and creation/management of images
• Contributing to product design and branding efforts
• Assistance with the creation of product videos

Design Skills and Experience

• Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • 5 or more years of graphic design experience in toys or other children's consumer products/media
  • Exceptional Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, and Acrobat skills
  • Strong digital photography, lighting, and image retouching skills
• The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following special skills and experience:
  • Strong visual design skills, including understanding composition, organization of information, hierarchy, use of type, and color theory
  • Refined sense of design, a keen eye, and attention to detail
  • Ability to critique your own work and others’ work, and absorb and apply feedback
  • Ability to do competitive research and analysis of other products, packages, and designs in the market to inform design work
  • Ability to identify the key features of a product and create a series of images to tell the product’s story.
  • Ability to creatively use available graphic assets to create new and more useful imagery.
  • Ability to understand, work with, and adhere to style guides, as well as develop new style guides.
  • Physical crafting skills to cut and build packaging mockups and prototypes
  • Experience with pre-press, file preparation, and sending of art files to printers
  • Experience with e-commerce platforms like Shopify
  • 3D rendering and CAD skills

General Skills

• Creative and resourceful
• Organized and highly motivated with a high attention to detail.
• Experience managing many projects, tasks, and deliverables simultaneously, determining and balancing priorities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially when it comes to design discussions
• Sound critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter who can work independently but knows when to collaborate and bring others on the team into the decision-making process
• Fast learner; can learn, retain, and apply information quickly and efficiently 
• Ability to remain calm, positive, and effective in high-energy, high-expectation situations of urgency 
• Experience with Mac OS, Google Apps, Microsoft Office, Monday.com
• A strong passion for storytelling, brand-building, and marketing
• A genuine interest in Thames & Kosmos products and mission

Compensation  

• This full-time, in-house position is located in Providence, RI. Some remote work days are possible, but the work will primarily be in the office. 
• Annual salary range: $60,000-$70,000
• Full company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Generous vacation and sick day policy 
• Health and wellness stipend
• 401K options available after one year of employment 
• Plus additional benefits 

To Apply  

• Cover letter
• Resume
• Portfolio
• References (2-3)

About Thames & Kosmos

Thames & Kosmos (T&K) is a publisher of products that inspire kids and families to think deeper, play longer, and figure stuff out! T&K makes science toys and kits that teach through fun, hands-on experimentation; games that challenge the mind and bring people together; activity toys that encourage imagination and open-ended play; and curricula that support educators to make learning enjoyable and effective. The T&K brand is highly regarded by parents, teachers, and members of the toy, game, and educational industries and its products have been the recipient of hundreds of accolades including TIME’s Best Inventions list, the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Awards, The Toy Association’s Toy of the Year Awards, among many others. T&K is headquartered in Providence, RI, and is the North American subsidiary of Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG. https://thamesandkosmos.com

Salary : $60,000 - $70,000