Jonas Rivera began his showbiz journey at Pixar in the mid-1990s, by serving as the production office assistant for the animated film Toy Story (1995). After working as the art department coordinator in A Bug`s Life (1998), marketing coordinator in Toy Story 2 (1999); and a production manager and voice actor in Cars (2006), Rivera debuted as a film producer with Pixar`s Up (2009), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.

Inside Out (2015), which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2016 and Toy Story 4 (2019) are some of Rivera`s other significant film credits as a producer.