Viahart is looking for a Plush Designer!
Viahart was founded in 2010. We are an innovative consumer products company. We design, manufacture, and distribute plush, active play products, building toys, swimming accessories, and more. Our brands include the building toy Brain Flakes, the plush line TigerHart Toys, the racket game Goodminton, and the Aquapella brand of swimming products. Our products have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, on television (CNBC and NBC), and in the New York Times. We are a growing company and we hope to continue that growth with you joining our team!
The Plush Designer is responsible for creating innovative and engaging plush toy designs from concept to production. This role involves collaboration with different departments, ensuring that designs meet safety, cost, and production parameters while maintaining high-quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Concept Development: Design new plush toys using creativity, manual skills, and computer proficiency.
- Design Execution: Create detailed sketches, prototypes, and tech packs of plush toys.
- Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with different departments and external partners to ensure a smooth design and development process.
- Safety & Compliance: Ensure all designs comply with safety regulations and industry standards.
- Production Management: Oversee the development process from prototype creation to final product quality assurance.
- Quality control: resolve sewing or other manufacturing issues that arise in the manufacturing of plush animals
Skills:
- Good computer skills are a must.
- High attention to detail.
- You must be able to communicate clearly.
- Be creative and innovative
- Experience in plush design or related fields like fashion/textile design
- Sewing experience
- Familiarity with 3D modeling and CAD software can be beneficial but is not required
- Proficiency in Adobe Suites or equivalent software
Compensation and benefits:
- This job will start at $700USD a month, but is negotiable
- You will be paid $323USD every 2 weeks
- You will be paid in US Dollars
- Work will be mostly remote at the beginning. 5 days a week in-office after we open our offices.
- This is a full-time position with 40 hours a week of work. Pick an 8-hour schedule. During those 8 hours, you must be active and working.
- Bonuses are given at the beginning of every February BASED ON MERIT. These range from 0% to 15% of yearly salary.
- 10 working days of paid time off (aka 2 weeks) will be offered. You will get your vacation after a 3 month probationary period.
- The US holidays of Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Years Day are paid holidays. They are not deducted from your vacation.
- You will need to work on Black Friday, Christmas Eve (you leave early), and New Years Eve (you leave early).
- Our company’s employment philosophy is we never want good people to quit. We will design a job that is an overlap of what you like, what you’re good at and what we need.
- We believe that the best workers MUST EARN MORE
- We do not offer health insurance
- You are responsible for paying taxes in your home country
Why you’ll love working with us:
- Company was founded in 2010, is profitable, has no debt besides a small credit card bill payable, and is generally financially strong
- We have big dreams to be an internationally renowned company AND one with a mission that you can be proud of. That means growing opportunities for you!
- We are innovative. We do things that no one else does and that’s really cool. We don’t want to be like everyone else, we want to be unique and do stuff that no one else has done before!
- Whenever we hire, our goal isn’t just to fill the position; it is to raise the bar with a new hire who inspires everyone else to work harder and be better
- We pay our employees above market and we give raises and bonuses.
- We write “direct communication” and this job post is direct, but we believe in training our people.
- We want to work with you for your entire career.
- We have open communication and you can disagree with your superiors. Management will not always agree with you but they promise to listen.
- I tried to think of some joke to write here but couldn’t think of anything funny...but I will say we are a happy company with a sense of humor :)
- Google our company. Do your research. I think you will like what you find!
Please note that we will test the skills necessary for this job and/or do EXTENSIVE REFERENCE CHECKS throughout the application process.