Designer, Disney Softlines

2 Weeks ago • 6-8 Years • Product Design

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Job Description

The Designer, Disney Softlines role involves creating trend-right creative solutions for softlines products across EMEA. Responsibilities include designing graphic assets, developing style guides, patterns, and product visuals; collaborating with cross-functional teams; conducting trend research; and pitching new product ideas to partners. The position requires a strong understanding of design principles, market trends, and Disney's brand equity. It's a fixed-term contract until September 2025, with a hybrid work model (4 days on-site, 1 day remote).
Must have:
  • Product/fashion/print design qualification or equivalent experience
  • Experience in licensed product design
  • Proficiency in Illustrator, Photoshop
  • Knowledge of Disney characters and storytelling
  • Strong design and market trend awareness
Good to have:
  • Experience in retail or manufacturing design
  • Understanding of buyer planning and product development
  • Ability to create core and trend-right designs
  • Skill in freehand drawing and presentation techniques
  • Familiarity with EMEA markets
Perks:
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance & dental care
  • Free Park Entry
  • Disney Discounts
  • Excellent parental and guardian leave

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

We are looking for a Designer with experience in the Fashion and Home industry to join our Creative team working across our Softlines' categories.

This is a fixed term opportunity until September 2025.

The Product Design team enhances and grows the EMEA business through outstanding trend and consumer-right, commercial creative solutions, keeping our character equity and storytelling front of mind, helping to build the Disney Consumer Products' business and increase visibility overall of the wider Disney brand.

You will design, against a set brief, leading standards of trend right creative development including design and development of graphic assets and design tools for use across all of our Softlines products.

This role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week in our Hammersmith office, with one day working from home.

What You Will Do

  • Working with the Manager/Lead Designer, develop creative assets that will enable growth for relevant Disney franchises from conception through to artwork development and distribution including but not limited to trend research, initial concepts through to final art worked style guides, patterns/borders, graphic/identity, icons, placement designs, imagery, compelling product visuals, copywriting, new product development pitches to new partners and dedicated core category toolkits

  • Liaise with other consumer segment and product design teams to ensure creative alignment and support on wider projects

  • Ensure all assets are creatively and technically correct before approval by Leader, and other key partners

  • Contribute to developing trend boards and new ideas that can add innovation and freshness into future projects, with a view to building on existing strategies

  • Maintain full compliance with corporate guidelines, producing work, which ensures character and design consistency and integrity

  • Build effective relationships among the wider creative community, maximising their specialist knowledge in order to create relevant designs that push the boundaries

  • Attend trade shows to broaden understanding of the EMEA market place seeking out ideas and new creative solutions to understand the business better

  • Contribute to creative brainstorming sessions with the internal or external teams

  • Provide relevant creative support, e.g. downloading, backing up, archiving, creating digital presentations as required

  • Collaborate with product teams, designers and artists to ensure character and franchise integrity are maintained and design and art styles work are synchronised

  • Work closely with Manager/Lead Designer to ensure projects are planned effectively to meet deadlines on time and keep within budgets

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Qualified in product/fashion/print design and /or proven commercial design experience in Fashion, Accessories or Home or product design role at a licensee, retail head office or supplier

  • Experience in retail or manufacturing design practice and able to understand how buyers plan ranges, the commercial applications of product development and graphic design

  • Experience of designing programs for licensed products, beneficial

  • Ability to create both core design solutions as well as new interpretive and trend-right styles

  • An awareness of marketplace trends in the design and retail environment with the ability to translate new concepts into marketable, saleable products

  • An ability to identify and apply colour theory and usage

  • Highly skilled in Illustrator, Photoshop and other creative suite packages

  • Good understanding of all elements of design: illustration, pattern, page layout, colour, product design, trends, creating new graphic design assets from scratch

  • Knowledge of Disney characters and Disney storytelling and how it translates to product

  • Ability to communicate design ideas using freehand drawing, computer techniques and/or third party design resources to both internal and external partners

  • Cultural sensitivity and an understanding of local markets across EMEA

The Perks

  • 25 days annual leave

  • Private medical insurance & dental care

  • Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free

  • Disney Discounts: you are 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, 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided the necessary accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive all benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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