Digital Sculptor

Hasbro is seeking a highly skilled, innovative, and creative professional to join its 3D Digital Sculpting team. This team is dedicated to producing content that captivates a global audience through imagination and play. Our products bring narratives to life, ranging from intricately detailed fan-oriented items to children's toys and gaming experiences.

Experience: The candidate must have 4-6 years of experience in digital sculpting, 3D modeling, art, or product development for consumer goods. A robust understanding of anatomy, along with exceptional aesthetic and design sensibilities, is essential. The candidate should also be able to demonstrate a solid working knowledge of plastics manufacturing, material drafting, engineering model development, be familiar with material usage, decoration, product safety, and performance reliability. Experience in animation rigging, digital texturing, lighting, and painting is a plus. Proficiency in the following programs is required:

• Maxon Pixologic Z-Brush
• Blender
• Maya
• Adobe creative suite
• KeyShot
• Microsoft Office

The candidate must possess strong project management skills, be able to work in a team environment and have good communication skills with the ability to execute multiple projects with time sensitive schedules and shifting priorities. The Candidate must also be able to show the ability to work under tight deadlines and must be proficient in problem solving and be willing to learn and keep current on new software.

The ideal candidate must demonstrate excellent communication skills with proficiency in English, Mandarin or Cantonese.

What you will do:

• Responsible for the daily 3D design, development, and execution of specific brands. Tasks include creating original product sculpts that will be used in the engineering, tooling while retaining the original sculpt aesthetics. Expectations include high-quality 3D modeling, hard-surface modeling, organic sculpting (characters/creatures), and PBR rendering. Accurately transform character concepts into detailed models that reflect the intended essence, style, and personality.
• Apply innovative approaches and creative problem-solving (e.g., new technology, software, methods) in the creation and development of new product sculpts to support production. Identify product development and process issues, recommend solutions, and implement them.
• Collaborate closely with development teams, model shops, and tooling vendors to maintain consistency in style and quality across all character assets, from 3D Design to final product. Ensure character models are optimized for manufacturing requirements. Incorporate engineering criteria into design and execute complex problem-solving based on concept sketches, written, and verbal design input specifications.
• Establish and adhere to precise tolerances and manufacturing constraints to ensure safe, effective, and consistently reliable product performance. Contribute to defining and identifying engineering, design, and product requirements. Ensure feasibility and performance meet applicable standards across the brand.
• Assume responsibility and accountability for project execution meeting defined milestones dates. Adhere to critical schedules and provide progress reports.
• Enhance vendor capabilities to address future projects and expand local talent resources

What you will bring:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Clearly convey artistic and technical direction through visual and written feedback to internal and external teams.
• Candidates should be team-oriented and capable of interacting and collaborating with all departments and teams.
• Self-sufficient and self-motivated, can perform duties with little oversight.
• A passion for making toys and games.
• Effective organization and file management skills, essential for the proper archiving of assets for future use and distribution.

Job Reports To: Digital Product Design Manager /Director