AddressJob Summary:
About the Role & Team
Design and build the digital destinations that connect audiences around the world with Disney Experiences. Partner with editorial, creative, and technology teams to elevate the user experience across websites, mobile apps, digital signage, social media, email, and more. Bring your creativity and expertise to support everything from major business announcements and global engagement campaigns to new content platforms and backstage communications.
As a Digital Creative Developeron the Disney Experiences Communications Technology team, you work closely with communications teams and technical partners to deliver new storytelling experiences that impact Cast Members, Crew Members, Imagineers, employees, guests, and fans across the globe. Become a part of a specialized team of digital experts amplifying the impact of PR, Public Affairs, and Internal Communications at Disney reporting to the Senior Manager of Communications Technology.
This role is the perfect opportunity to combine your passions for Disney, digital design, and user experience on a team that is nimble, creative, optimistic, disruptive, and boundlessly ambitious.
Your portfolio, skills, and network will grow as you work across the business to help Disney reimagine the future of external and internal communications.
Note: This is a 6 month assignment
What You Will Do
- Design: Create a magical and inclusive user experience across Communications by translating Disney design frameworks and digital accessibility best practices into wireframes, high-fidelity comps, prototypes, and front-end HTML for a variety of digital platforms and products. Work with developers and technology partners to implement and validate designs.
- Build: Lead project teams or guide content owners in building digital communications in standardized content management systems (WordPress), and beyond. For select projects, independently handle content build-out and management.
- Adapt: Continuously grow your knowledge of the global business and stay flexible to deliver on new Communications priorities, including confidential and time-sensitive projects.
- Empower: Build and maintain reusable content templates and building blocks in content creation tools.
- Support: Guide content owners and creators in effective digital communications via project consultation, training, and documentation.
- Innovate: Research new standards, design frameworks, and products as technology evolves to provide forward-thinking solutions.
- Imagine: As a member of the larger DPEP Content Creation and Digital Integration team, be part of the team dreaming up and pitching new ways to engage audiences.
Required Qualifications & Skills
An online portfolio of digital design and production.
2+ years’ demonstrated experience in UX or web design.
Expertise with industry-standard design and prototyping applications, such as Figma, Sketch, and InVision.
Expertise building and editing HTML and CSS.
Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud applications for media editing and optimization, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Media Encoder.
Passion for digital accessibility and inclusion (WCAG, WAI-ARIA, ADA, multi-language)
Flexible, organized, and motivated to independently manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Preferred Qualifications
Passion for the brands and offerings of Disney Experiences.
Experience incorporating internal style guides or design frameworks into digital content or platforms.
Experience building and managing sites on WordPress CMS using Gutenberg.
Understanding of website performance, analytics, and SEO.
Written proficiency in one or more languages in addition to English, such as Spanish, Haitian Creole, or French.
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