Her Career
Her Career
Career
Jess has been all over the country working in many industries, from the east coast to the west coast. From watch design to toy design. Throughout her career, she has designed products that bring emotional connection and user needs to the brands she has helped develop. Those brands range from evergreen to brand new IP. She has gained insights into consumer wants/needs, and can turn those into innovated designs.
In addition to her design expertise, she has managed teams of designers and cross functional teams of engineers, marketers, quality control, packaging and licensors. Together those teams have brought dozens of items to market launch around the world.
She is confident in her abilities and is ready to expand into a new industry. She is bringing all her combined experience from many industries to those new potential teams. She is so excited to see what comes next.
Career Timeline
Current Position
Current Position
Current Position
Design Manager and Business Development
Oversees all toy design, development and strategizes for tokidoki. Manages all toy designers and project manages manufacturing and design schedules. Coordinates all toy series and open boxes made annually. Plans full calendar year launches of all toy items. Cost engineers all toy and packaging during prelim design and keeps company margin requirements. 7+ Years Industrial Designer experience and mass manufacturing experience.
Liaison with Licensors: Sanrio, Karl Lagerfeld, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and ONCH
Nurtures business relationships with collaborative business partners and licensors.
Handles all ‘Mermicorno: Starfall’ approvals with animation and mass toy licensor on behalf of tokidoki team
Communication between Atomic Animation, Jazwares and Warner Brothers
Manages Business updates to Sanrio LA and Japan team, along with quarterly sales projections
Facilitates all toy approvals with licensors and internal teams
Working manager task: designs full toy series and handles all phases of production
Creates toy cost sheets for executive review and approval
People Manages in duality with managerial tasks
Communicate with executives teams, cross functional teams and departments on daily basis
Upon arrival at tokidoki, has restructured entire toy department to be more efficient
Creates product sales documents for buyers/retailers