Jobs at Jazwares

Leads creative direction and brand integrity for Squishmallows consumer products across global licensees and retail channels. Reviews product designs, packaging, marketing materials, and samples; translates trends into brand-aligned strategies; manages approval calendars and process improvements; develops creative assets and mock-ups; collaborates cross-functionally; and mentors a creative team.

Leads end-to-end design and development of licensed Pokémon toys, from ideation and prototyping through production. Creates play systems, control drawings, rendered concepts, and product specifications while ensuring brand, cost, quality, and licensor requirements. Collaborates with brand, engineering, packaging, manufacturing, vendors, and The Pokémon Company; presents concepts, supports user testing, resolves development issues, and manages transitions to mass production.

Supports regional marketing campaigns across multiple toy brands by developing strategies, briefs, presentations, timelines, and marketing assets. Coordinates creative, media, PR, influencer, procurement, and distributor partners; manages approvals, deliverables, vendors, and invoices. Conducts research into trends, sales data, pop culture, and consumer behavior, and prepares campaign reporting and recaps. The role requires strong organization, communication, creative execution, collaboration, and familiarity with digital marketing tactics.

Analyze SKU counts, item-level profitability, design productivity, and pricing across toy products. Build SQL queries and Sigma dashboards, identify margin risks and SKU rationalization opportunities, support new item planning, and communicate actionable insights to nontechnical Brand Operations and marketing stakeholders.

Lead design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable web applications using Python/Django and React. Mentor junior developers, participate in architecture and code reviews, optimize PostgreSQL, integrate AI-assisted tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features following CI/CD and best practices.

Supports regional marketing campaigns across multiple toy brands by developing strategies, briefs, presentations, and marketing assets. Coordinates creative, media, PR, influencer agencies, vendors, approvals, timelines, and deliverables. Conducts market, trend, sales, and consumer research to inform campaigns, prepares reporting and recaps, and collaborates with brand, procurement, project management, distributors, and external partners.

Manages and grows the Squishmallows community through social content, engagement, influencer and campaign support, trend identification, and social listening. Maintains brand voice across major platforms, owns the posting calendar, responds to community inquiries, escalates customer concerns, and delivers recurring performance reports. The role supervises others and collaborates with marketing, social, internal stakeholders, and external partners to achieve campaign KPIs.

Designs, implements, maintains, and troubleshoots EDI systems and integrations. Supports internal and external stakeholders, supplier onboarding, transaction processing, documentation, testing, training, production monitoring, and continuous workflow improvements.

Manage the complete sales order lifecycle from award through delivery. Process and validate orders, monitor production and shipment timelines, coordinate with Sales, Product Development, Logistics, Traffic, customers, and Asia-based operations, and resolve issues affecting fulfillment. Create dashboards and reports, maintain account-specific processes, support onboarding and training, and identify opportunities to improve operational accuracy, efficiency, and on-time delivery.

Provides HR administrative and operational support across the employee lifecycle, including employee inquiries, new hire orientations, onboarding, offboarding, records management, HR transactions, employment verifications, invoices, contractor coordination, and HR events. Maintains confidential and accurate employee data in UKG, follows established procedures, and escalates complex policy or compliance matters.

Manage purchase order lifecycles for EDI and non-EDI accounts, process orders through ERP systems, maintain procurement trackers, analyze inventory availability, and ensure vendor and customer compliance. The role coordinates with global partners and cross-functional teams to resolve order issues, approve ship dates, revise purchase orders, and support timely delivery. It requires strong spreadsheet, organizational, communication, and prioritization skills.

Supports Squishmallows brand strategy, product development, licensing, and cross-functional execution from concept through market launch. Analyzes competitive landscapes, POS data, consumer insights, sales, and profitability to inform product positioning and retail plans. Manages product line documentation, timelines, samples, creative deliverables, sales materials, and stakeholder communications while maintaining brand integrity and project schedules.

Supports the sales team by coordinating product and item data setup, online and in-store listings, samples, quotes, catalogs, factory information, databases, and promotional materials. Collaborates with internal departments, account managers, customers, and factory liaisons to ensure accurate, timely product launches. Maintains records, resolves inquiries, audits systems, and helps improve information-submission procedures.

Supports the Sales Team by coordinating product and item setup, maintaining accurate databases and catalogs, submitting product listings, tracking samples and quotes, and resolving information requests. Collaborates with internal teams, factories, and retail partners to ensure products are ready for launch. Assists with promotional materials, presentations, procedures, and system audits while managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Leads Squishmallows plush product design from concept through production, overseeing creative strategy, quality, costs, schedules, documentation, and global manufacturing collaboration. Partners with branding, product management, engineering, packaging, licensing, and vendors to deliver collectible products. Manages resources, tracks projects, presents designs, and mentors junior designers while ensuring alignment with brand and licensor requirements.

Develop and execute territory sales plans, manage client and partner relationships, pursue new business, and achieve revenue goals. Monitor sales performance, set quotas, prepare budgets and projections, establish pricing and discounts, analyze sales metrics, advise distributors and dealers, and resolve customer issues. The role requires strong communication, organization, customer service, presentation, and relationship-management skills.

Manage product development schedules from concept through production for major toy brands. Lead milestone meetings, track project statuses and timelines, balance creative resources, resolve scheduling conflicts, and escalate delays. Partner with Design and internal teams to coordinate project flow and seasonal launches. Oversee multilingual packaging projects, support international coordination, and mentor Associate Project Managers while managing multiple complex initiatives.

Design and manage enterprise data architecture, models, integration pipelines, governance, metadata practices, and cloud data platforms. Build data structures supporting reporting, analytics, AI, and self-service business intelligence. Provide technical oversight through architecture and code reviews, collaborate with engineering and analytics teams, and maintain documentation. The role requires extensive SQL, data modeling, cloud architecture, data pipeline, source control, DataOps, and CI/CD experience, along with strong communication and project prioritization skills.

Leads enterprise master data management strategy, governance, quality, workflows, and transformation initiatives. Builds and mentors a data operations team, establishes data ownership and KPIs, drives Lean Six Sigma process improvements, and oversees MDM platform implementations, data cleansing, migrations, ERP transformations, and M&A integrations. Partners with executive stakeholders across IT, finance, sales, supply chain, BI, and product teams to ensure trusted operational data supports analytics and AI/ML initiatives.

Leads end-to-end design and development of preschool toys, from ideation, sketching, prototyping, research, and user testing through production. Collaborates with brand, product management, engineering, packaging, licensors, manufacturers, and vendors to deliver safe, cost-effective, high-quality products aligned with brand guidelines. Creates technical specifications and presentations, resolves development issues, and manages shifting priorities and deadlines.