Location: Los Angeles, California
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $90 - 98 per hour
We are seeking a strategic and forward-thinking Director of Consumer Products & Product Development to lead the creative transformation of our intellectual properties into innovative, multi-category commercial products. In this role, you will guide product development from initial creative concept through to retail launch, ensuring merchandise assortments are strategic, market-relevant, and distinctly differentiated across retail channels.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with leads to guide product development from the initial creative concept and partner kickoff through to the retail launch, ensuring assortments are well-designed, strategic, and distinctly differentiated across retail channels.
- Partner with retail, licensing, and strategy executives to drive and influence the creative transformation of our titles into multi-category consumer products, focusing on innovative, market-relevant development while maintaining brand alignment.
- Direct and advise licensees, retailers, and brands on effectively translating our intellectual properties into highly successful consumer products across all developing merchandise lines.
- Analyze and explore emerging product trends, strategic frameworks, and advanced product design and development methodologies.
- Cultivate strong partnerships with external licensees and brands, as well as internal Consumer Products (CP) teams and cross-functional organizational partners.
- Onboard licensees and collaborative partners into internal systems, ensuring the seamless and timely delivery of creative assets.
- Oversee and manage the product approval process via internal workflows to maintain rigorous standards in brand storytelling, design development, and final execution.
Qualifications:
TOP 3 REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 3-5 years of experience in multi-category consumer products design and consumer products development (licensed & vertical product design).
- Direct experience working within major studio title consumer product programs.
- Strong trending capabilities with a diverse product development background centered on customer/fan engagement.
- Soft Skills: Self-motivated, highly accountable, direct communication style, comfortable with rapid ideation, collaborative across cross-functional, matrixed teams.
JOBID: 062026-136998
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Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
Qualified applicants in San Francisco with criminal histories will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
