Illustrator

ABOUT MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT:

Moonbug Entertainment is an award-winning global entertainment company behind some of the most popular kids’ titles in the world. Moonbug’s line-up includes global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Oddbods, Little Angel, My Magic Pet Morphle, Supa Strikas, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Gecko’s Garage, ARPO and many more.

Moonbug’s shows are currently available in 32 languages and feature on more than 150 platforms globally, including YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Super RTL, BBC iPlayer, HBO Max, Tencent, Youku and Roku. The company’s portfolio currently stands at 29 IPs and 100+ brand partners.

Moonbug is a subsidiary of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. By bringing together elite talent operating at the intersection of content, community, and commerce, it helps to position leading entertainment businesses for accelerated, sustainable growth in the current market and beyond. Candle is run by its Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs, leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

The Role:

This is a fulltime role base in our London office and the candidate will need to be able to come into the office 5 days a week.

We have an exciting new opening for an illustrator working across the licensing team which is part of the Brand team. This person will be responsible for ideating, illustrating and producing style guides for licensing and marketing, and working with our licensing team to evangelise and implement the guides. The role is also part of the wider brand team and will participate in creating campaigns and marketing assets.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a product and/or graphic design background, who is a keen illustrator and wants to work within a global Marketing team. You will be working collaboratively with the editorial and marketing team to grow the ecosystem around the Moonbug shows.

The successful candidate must be autonomous and organized, while creative and self-motivated.

The candidate must also be proactive, process-driven, able to meet committed deadlines and be great at working collaboratively in an international environment.

Responsibilities:

• Create new illustrations and designs maintaining a unified look across all brands and platforms.
• Design world-class style guides developed which embody and enhance our IP.
• Provide creative direction, inspiration and feedback to licensing team and in some cases licensees on both 2D application and 3D product submissions.
• Create product pitches and new product design visuals.
• Develop and maintain a good knowledge of current trends in the toddler and pre-school demographic.
• Train and develop all new and existing licensees on the Moonbug brand, property portfolio, creative assets and approval systems, ensuring that they have the appropriate creative assets for product development.

Requirements

Desired qualifications and requirements:

• Computer literate including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and MS Office.
• Have a passion and flare for children's illustration.
• Experience of working with product licensing, either with a retailer or IP owner.
• An ability to communicate a clear design brief and basic design ideas using freehand drawing, computer techniques and/or third-party design resources.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to effectively present design ideas to internal/external stakeholders.
• Fluent English.