Director, Design & Development

Universal Products & Experiences Overview

Responsibilities

• Creative Leadership & Vision
• Lead and oversee the creative vision across multiple categories, ensuring brand consistency, innovation, and elevated design execution.
• Develop innovative concepts, visual storytelling, and brand-right creative solutions that resonate with target consumers and strengthen brand equity.
• Act as the creative bridge between licensors, licensees, retail partners, and internal teams to maximize brand value through design.
• Ensure alignment between creative vision, brand strategy, and commercial objectives across all product categories.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders across Category Management, Retail Development, Licensing, and Parks to align creative strategies with business priorities.
• Maintain exceptional standards of design quality, craftsmanship, and execution across all creative outputs.
• Drive informed creative solutions by leveraging global and local market trends, consumer insights, and emerging cultural influences.
• Product Development & Design Execution
• Partner with Retail Buying teams, licensees, and Category Leadership to develop strategically aligned and commercially viable product assortments.
• Lead and manage all creative aspects of fashion and product design, ensuring trend-forward development and timely execution.
• Actively participate in concept development, sketching, illustration, and visual asset creation.
• Interpret and evolve style guides while creating original graphic assets, design applications, and innovative expressions of IP.
• Translate trends in materials, silhouettes, fashion aesthetics, and consumer behavior into compelling licensed products.
• Create impactful presentations and creative assets for regional and internal stakeholders, licensors, licensees, and retail partners.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in composition, typography, color theory, and fashion design principles including manufacturing and printing processes, assortment planning, graphic and pattern development, branding and trim development
• Licensing & Brand Stewardship
• Manage end-to-end licensor approvals, ensuring all products meet brand standards, contractual obligations, and creative expectations.
• Interpret and elevate licensor feedback, refining product design while maintaining authenticity and brand integrity.
• Partner closely with intellectual property holders to create differentiated and market-leading product experiences.

Additional Requirements

• Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time
• As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
• NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.
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