Associate Americas Brand Commercialization

Disney Consumer Products (DCP), part of The Walt Disney Company, brings Disney’s iconic stories and characters to life through innovative partnerships. By collaborating with best-in-class brands, from global industry leaders to emerging innovators, DCP translates storytelling into compelling products that resonate with consumers and drive cultural relevance across the marketplace.

The Associate Americas Brand Commercialization is an entry-level brand role within The Walt Disney Company, ideal for someone who is passionate about brands and keen to build a career in business management, strategy and brand. 

The primary focus of the role is the timely and accurate review of brand assets and marketing collateral to ensure alignment with Disney’s global standards. This plays a critical role in protecting brand integrity across high-visibility touchpoints for Disney and Pixar. Approximately 70–80% of the role is dedicated to managing digital approval systems and workflows, requiring strong attention to detail, sound brand judgement, time management skills, and the ability to manage high volume with pace and consistency.

In addition, the role provides day-to-day support to the Brand Commercialization team, assisting with regional initiatives, coordination across functions, meeting management, presentations, reporting, and franchise priorities. Through this work, the role offers exposure to how brand, retail, licensing, and marketing teams collaborate across the Americas, making it a strong foundation for someone looking to grow into broader brand or strategy responsibilities over time.

The role supports the full Americas region (North America and Latin America) and reports to the Manager, Americas Brand Commercialization and is based in Glendale, CA.

You Will / Responsibilities:

• Review and approve consumer-facing marketing and retail assets from licensees and retail partners, ensuring they meet brand guidelines.

• Manage approval workflows, systems, and timelines, escalating when work is tracking off schedule or needs additional review.

• Apply brand standards consistently to protect brand integrity across the Americas for Disney and Pixar.

• Support the team with regional brand and commercialization work, including tracking regional activity and reporting.

• Assist with presentations and team materials as needed.

• Look for ways to improve approval processes and use systems more efficiently 

• Team meeting coordination including Agenda generation, recap notes/action steps, follow ups

• Other tasks as needed

You Will Have / Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of brand, franchise, business and/or marketing experience (including professional internships)

• Experience with Outlook, Excel, Word, Keynote & PowerPoint, asset management software, and design software such as Canva. Familiarity with AI Tools such as Claude, CoPilot and ChatGPT.

• Ability to create engaging and compelling presentations and demonstrated ability to craft story with the ability to motivate both internal and external partners. Experience building decks preferred.

• Excellent communication skills and confident presence

• Strong organizational and analytical skills; attention to detail

• Ability to collaborate, communicate, influence and persuade multiple levels across the organization

• Experience performing independent research, brainstorms and gathering insights and/or trends.

• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities with the skills to work in a fast-paced environment

• Comfortable working through a matrix structure to deliver the end solution

• Agile and responsive – can thrive in ambiguous business situations.

• Understanding of the Disney brands and the broader organization

• Administrative experience including basic office tasks such as meeting coordination, agenda creation, notes and actions steps, routing of materials, research and insights work, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual proficiency in Spanish (highly preferred written and verbal communication).

• Experience managing digital approval systems and creating or maintaining workflows

• Cross-functional knowledge both internally and externally working across departments such as marketing, brand, legal, licensing and more.

• Experience working with consumer products (softlines and hardlines) and interacting with licensees

• Ability to interact with a variety of levels of decision makers and staff.

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field or equivalent work experience

Additional Information:

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $72,000.00 to $96,500.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.