What you will do?

• Work with retail, licensing and strategy leads to drive and influence the creative translation/extension of our titles into multi-category consumer products, with an eye on innovative, market relevant development while ensuring alignment back to the properties.
• Explore product trends, product strategies and product design & development for multi-category within hardlines, including but not exclusively plush, accessories, stationary and seasonal. 
• Build partnerships with licensees and brands as well as internal CP teams, partners across the organization.
• Align closely with the Consumer Products Global Hardlines lead and Art Director on all deliverables for product development and packaging.
• Work with hardlines lead to support product development from creative vision and kickoff with partners, through to retail launch, ensuring the assortments are well designed and merchandised and that there is proper differentiation across retail.
• Lead and guide licensees, retailers and brands on how to translate our titles into successful products for all properties for which merchandise will be developed.
• Develop creative product development tools and guidelines that help to inspire and drive new and elevated ways of developing products and bringing products into the market.
• Onboard licensees and collaborative partners into our internal systems and ensure timely asset deliveries Manage product approvals via internal systems ensuring high standards in storytelling, development and execution

What we need from you:

• A passion for fan-core merch.
• An urgency to ideate quickly and execute, repeatedly. 
• Demonstrated 3-5 years of experience in multi-category hardlines consumer products design and development - with a knowledge of both vertical and licensed product design.
• Strong trending capabilities and ability to innovate.
• Experience working with major studio titles and IP consumer product programs. 
• Diverse product development background with a focus on fans.