Senior Designer
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10119168 Emplacement Londres, Royaume-Uni Entreprise Disney Experiences Date de publication 30/04/2025Résumé du poste:
About The Role & Team
Join our innovative team at Disney, where creativity meets storytelling magic. We are seeking a talented individual to collaborate with our Senior Creative Design Manager and various teams to produce and manage creative design ideation, ensuring our beloved franchises and characters are brought to life in products that uphold brand integrity.
You will play a key role in building relationships, presenting ideas, and driving design initiatives that resonate with diverse audiences. Your expertise will contribute to the development of trend boards, innovative solutions, and maintaining design consistency across all projects. If you are passionate about creating impactful designs and pushing creative boundaries, we invite you to be part of our journey.
This position is a full-time, with the expectation to work from our London office four days a week.
Please include a body of work, or a portfolio within your application.
What You Will You Do
- Collaborate with the Senior Creative Design Manager to produce and manage all creative design ideation, design requests, and pitch directions for the global account.
- Translate Disney franchises, characters, and storytelling into products, ensuring brand integrity is upheld at retail.
- Build and nurture relationships with design, operations, character art, franchise, product development/licensing, and content partner teams to ensure synergy and share best practices.
- Clearly present visions, ideas, and pitches in both formal and informal settings as needed.
- Provide design direction for initiatives by researching creative solutions and demonstrating a high-level awareness of consumer and market trends.
- Create and illustrate design icons and graphics for product development purposes.
- Support team Designers as needed, ensuring all work meets required standards and adheres to brand guidelines.
- Contribute to the development of trend boards and new ideas (ideation) that bring innovation and freshness to future projects, building on existing strategies.
- Adhere to corporate guidelines, ensuring character and design consistency and integrity in all work produced.
- Foster effective relationships within the wider creative community, leveraging their expertise to create relevant designs that push boundaries.
- Attend trade shows, events, and experiences as needed to gain insights into the EMEA marketplace, seeking out new ideas and creative solutions to better understand the business.
- Participate in creative brainstorming sessions with internal and external teams.
- Work closely with the Lead Designer to plan projects effectively, ensuring deadlines are met and budgets are maintained.
- Ensure that all agreed projects are successfully executed within budget and on time.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Degree-level education in a related field (graphic design, packaging design, illustration, or product design) or equivalent experience.
- Experience in storytelling and character-based design is desirable.
- Proven ability to take a design from concept to execution.
- Knowledge of Disney characters and storytelling, and how they translate to products.
- Experience in building effective relationships and managing stakeholders within a large, multi-national, matrix organization.
- Ability to communicate design ideas using freehand drawing, computer techniques, and/or third-party design resources to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Essential ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Keynote.
- Beneficial graphic design and illustration skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to create cohesive storytelling trend/POV boards.
- Ability to develop new and innovative concepts and translate them into a storyline through strong graphics and creative direction.
- Ability to generate and present creative ideas to internal and external clients, including producing Keynote presentations and pitches.
- Strong negotiation and creative problem-solving skills.
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.