Job Summary

The Character Artist plays a key role in bringing [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Characters to life across both 2D and 3D product applications. This position is responsible for creating high-quality, original character artwork for a wide range of product uses, supporting regional EMEA needs, and contributing to 3D character art approvals. Working closely with the Senior Character Art Manager, the Character Artist will develop artwork for assigned Characters and provide support on additional creative requests as required. Through outstanding, commercial and authentic interpretations, the role helps enhance and grow the GPC business while protecting and celebrating [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s character equity and storytelling heritage.

Values

You'll join a team grounded in our [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] values, acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community.

What You Will Do

• Partner with the Senior Character Art Manager to develop high-quality character illustrations for style guides and portfolios across multiple franchises and business divisions.
• Ensure timely delivery of 2D and 3D character approvals and corrections, maintaining consistency, artistic excellence, and brand integrity across all product applications.
• Act as a key point of contact for EMEA teams on character art and brand equity queries, providing clear and trusted creative guidance.
• Contribute to idea generation by developing new art styles and techniques aligned with marketplace trends, and identifying character art innovation and whitespace opportunities.
• Provide creative direction and feedback to external freelance artists, licensees and suppliers to ensure all artwork meets [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s quality and brand standards.
• Attend relevant trade shows and exhibitions to gather inspiration, explore emerging creative trends, and deepen understanding of the business and consumer landscape.
• Maintain full compliance with corporate and brand guidelines, ensuring character and design consistency across all outputs.
• Actively contribute ideas for franchise and business growth, including participation in brainstorming sessions and cross-team creative initiatives.
• Offer hands-on creative support to the team, including archiving assets, backing up work, and producing digital presentations as required.
• Encourage collaboration and asset sharing across GPC, driving efficiencies through shared materials, XLOB initiatives, and best-practice ways of working.
• Help build and nurture a strong character art community across GPC at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Company, fostering collaboration and creative excellence.
• Uphold consistently high character art standards across the EMEA region.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Degree-level education in a relevant creative discipline (such as character art, illustration, animation or graphic design), or equivalent professional experience, with a proven track record in a similar role within the creative, entertainment or consumer products space.
• Strong expertise in character art, including a deep understanding of cartooning, cartoon animation principles, and how character artwork translates into product and storytelling. Experience drawing [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] characters and working with established character equity is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to create high-quality 2D artwork across multiple styles, using both traditional and digital methods, with proven experience in digital inking and rendering. Experience with 3D modelling and working across additional mediums such as sculpting, painting and drawing is beneficial.
• Strong foundation in design fundamentals, including illustration, layout, colour and typography, combined with excellent graphic design capability and a sharp eye for detail.
• Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator, with experience using Keynote and other creative tools to produce presentations, pitches and visual storytelling materials.
• Commercially aware and creatively curious, with a strong understanding of marketplace and consumer trends and the ability to identify fresh, innovative opportunities within character art and product design.
• Confident communicator and creative storyteller, able to generate, present and successfully sell creative ideas to internal and external partners in both formal and informal settings.
• Proven experience building effective relationships and collaborating with stakeholders within a large, multinational, matrixed organisation, demonstrating strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.
• Resourceful, adaptable and culturally sensitive, with the ability to work effectively across diverse, international teams while maintaining consistently high creative and brand standards.

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
• [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] products, resort F&B and ticketing
• Excellent parental and guardian leave
• Employee Resource Groups - WOMEN @ [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Mosaic, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] PRIDE, our disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Experiences

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Experiences brings the magic of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] store locations around the world and on the web.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Company

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Entertainment, ESPN, and [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.