Product Design & Development Associate
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10127157 Emplacement Londres, Royaume-Uni Entreprise Disney Experiences Date de publication 01/08/2025Résumé du poste:
About The Role & Team
Step into a truly magical “sketchbook to shelf” opportunity at Disney, where your creativity will help shape the future of Hardlines, especially within our beloved Plush category. Here, you’ll dream up, design, and develop trend-setting products for licensees and DTRs, guiding imaginative concepts all the way from initial sketches to the hands of Disney fans.
You’ll provide technical direction, creative inspiration, and hands-on support throughout the entire product journey, ensuring every plush creation captures the enchantment and storytelling Disney is known for.
This position is a permanent role located in the Hammersmith, London office, with an expectation of four days per week in the office.
What You Will Do
- Championing the Creative Process: Lead the journey from blue-sky brainstorming through design development, ensuring every plush concept is both innovative and unmistakably Disney.
- Design Direction & Trendsetting: Offer dynamic design insight, creative feedback, and trend forecasts to licensees, whether it’s the perfect 2D sketch or a 3D prototype that brings characters to life.
- Storytelling Through Product: Craft compelling pitches and mock-ups that capture the essence and magic of Disney’s beloved icons, collaborating closely with the Senior Product Design and Development Manager.
- Inspiring Partners: Empower licensees by sharing your expertise on Disney’s brand, creative assets, and product development tools, ensuring every collaborator is set up for creative success.
- Building Lasting Relationships: Forge strong connections with licensees and stakeholders, nurturing a collaborative spirit and a shared vision for magical results.
- Keeping Disney’s Legacy Alive: Immerse yourself in Disney’s rich universe, its characters, stories, and creative traditions to authentically translate them into new, trend-setting consumer products.
- Staying Ahead of the Curve: Dive into design and pop-culture trends, attend inspiration trips, and bring back fresh ideas to keep the Hardlines portfolio vibrant and relevant in the EMEA market.
- Ensuring Excellence: Oversee the approval process, guiding product submissions through Disney’s Online Product Approval (OPA) system, and make sure every creation meets the highest standards of quality and compliance.
- Team Player: Collaborate across regional, local, and global teams, lending your creative eye and expertise wherever needed on special projects or design initiatives.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Demonstrated proficiency in 3D design, graphic illustration, and sketching, with advanced skills in Photoshop and Illustrator, supported by strong visual abilities.
- Demonstrated commercial product development experience, ideally within related categories or in a product design capacity at a licensee, retailer, or supplier
- Exposure to packaging processes and familiarity with style guides and the Online Product Approval (OPA) system (desirable)
- Hands-on experience in creating prototypes or models
- Awareness of industry trends within relevant categories and broader design fields, along with working knowledge of key manufacturing techniques and their applications
- Strong communication skills to express clear product design briefs and basic design concepts using CAD, digital tools, or collaboration with third-party design partners
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage budgets as directed
- Exceptional design and conceptual abilities
- Understanding of fabric, colour, and product design principles
- Confident presentation skills for sharing design ideas with internal and external collaborators at all levels
- Awareness of production methods and graphic applications, with an eye for colour and form (preferred)
- In-depth knowledge of fabrics and stitching techniques (preferred)
- Capacity to positively influence and support change among stakeholders
- Proficiency in written and spoken English for business; additional European languages are a plus
- Digital literacy, including familiarity with Mac OSX, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and MS Office
- Cultural sensitivity and an understanding of diverse markets across EMEA
The Perks
- 25 days annual leave
- Private medical insurance & dental care
- Free Park Entry: the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
- Disney Discounts: entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
- Excellent parental and guardian leave
- Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, our new disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Sur Disney Experiences:
Disney Experiences donne vie à la magie des histoires et des franchises Disney à travers des parcs à thème, des complexes hôteliers, des bateaux de croisière, des expériences de vacances uniques, des produits et bien plus encore dans le monde entier. Disney excelle dans l’industrie du voyage avec six destinations de villégiature aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Asie, une compagnie de croisières de premier plan, un programme de propriété de vacances très populaire, et une agence primée d’aventures guidées en famille. De plus, les opérations mondiales de produits de consommation de Disney comprennent la plus grande entreprise de licences au monde, les plus grandes marques d’édition pour enfants au monde, l’un des plus grands concédants de licence de jeux au monde sur toutes les plateformes, et les magasins Disney dans le monde entier et sur le Web.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à The Walt Disney Company Limited , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Experiences.
The Walt Disney Company Limited est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidats seront pris en considération pour l’emploi sans tenir compte de l’âge, de la race, de la couleur de peau, de la religion ou des convictions, du sexe, de la nationalité, de l’origine ethnique ou nationale, de l’orientation sexuelle, du changement de sexe, du statut marital ou civil, du handicap, de la grossesse ou de la maternité. Disney favorise une culture commerciale où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution rapide.