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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
— Joe Sparano
Lead Product Designer
The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Lead Product Designer is responsible for the execution of product design and development for Marvel and 20th Century licensed products. This includes collaborating with internal and external partners to ensure high-quality, consumer-focused product lines that meet financial targets.
Responsibilities
- Concept, design, sketch, prototype (including managing art-to-product, review 3D modeling, sample creation, deliver and present trend-right consumer centric product direction that features market-leading innovation and great price/value for each tier of the value pyramid)
- Manage and execute product and licensed packaging approvals through online systems and collaborative approval meetings, ensuring high quality standards in character execution, in-depth storytelling, color, material, form and function
- Collaborate with internal partners (Creative Design, Licensing Commercialization, CBM, Legal, Business Affairs, Product Integrity, Integrated Retail, BPM, Public Affairs, D&I teams, Cultural Consultants) and external partners (Studios & Disney Channel Content Providers, Games, Publishing, WDI, Licensees, DTR Partners) to design and approve all products
- Collaborate with the greater product design and creative teams to drive up-front trends, overall creative direction and identify future areas of growth within the franchise and across product categories, including the preparation of custom design tools and retail pitches to differentiate by category
- Collaborate with Global Product Design teams and Central Creative Teams on cultural relevant product opportunities
- Lead internal and external agenda-based meetings (licenses, studio partners, regional PD)
- Prepare creative/product retail custom design tools and pitches to differentiate by category
- Onboard new Licensees, DTR, halo partners globally and locally
- Monitor competitors, product innovation and market dynamics
- Multi-task and prioritize multiple design projects, running simultaneously with varying levels of complexity
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience
- Prior experience leading projects, brands, category & with strong understanding of product development and manufacturing
- Strong knowledge in hardlines categories and product development process (raw materials, plastic, textiles, 2D and 3D, graphic composition, sculpting, deco, paint master)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to persuade, influence and sell creative/design pov
- Strong product design skills (e.g. 3D/2D product design, technical design, sketching, creative application and manipulation of art, final mechanical art, fabric and trim identification)
- Strong computer software skills (e.g. MS Office, Adobe Suite)
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field (e.g. industrial design, toy design, fashion design)
Key Skills
- 3D/2D product design
- technical design
- sketching
- creative application and manipulation of art
- final mechanical art
- fabric and trim identification
- MS Office
- Adobe Suite
Benefits
- 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.
About The Walt Disney Company
Imagine a career at Disneyland Paris. From the moment you arrive, you’ll be immersed in a dynamic and multicultural team of talent that welcomes our Guests every day to create magical souvenirs they’ll cherish forever. Since 1992, we’ve opened our Park gates to 320 million visitors and made the dreams of millions come true! You too could be part of the magic! The success in delivering these projects and their stories is thanks to our team of 15,000 Cast Members who live Walt Disney’s vision: they bring imagination and wonder to our guests while seeing their own careers flourish. And this is where you can get involved. We have 500 different job profiles across our corporate and operations departments, so whether you’re interested in the operational roles within our Park, maybe to work part-time alongside your studies, or if you’re interested in Marketing, Finance, Engineering and our other corporate roles, we invite you to apply to us! Discover our many career opport
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