Lead Digital Producer, Future Lab

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

The Future Lab team’s mission is to pioneer the future of play by identifying, incubating, and implementing new customer-facing, tech-enabled products, experiences, and services beyond Mattel’s conventional offerings and categories.

The position of Digital Producer sits in Future Lab Product Studio, reporting to the Senior Manager of Digital Production. The Future Lab Product Studio is a collaborative team of Product Managers, Digital Producers, and UX/UI Designers. The team is based in Mattel’s offices in El Segundo CA.

The Opportunity: 

The Digital Producer, Future Lab will work collaboratively with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and external vendor partners to execute and deliver digitally-enhanced products and applications across Mattel’s brand portfolio. The Digital Producer oversees the production process, ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. They manage day-to-day development tasks, coordinate between creative, technical, and business teams, and act as the main point of contact with external software development vendors. Digital Producers bridge the gap between teams, overseeing asset management pipelines and ensuring the product meets its objectives.

This opportunity is a great fit for anyone who has experience in app development and production, and ideally has worked with well-known brands, either for a developer or a licensor. Passion for new technology, AI, and digitally-enhanced experiences is a must. You must have strong attention to detail, strong communication skills, ability to manage multiple high-complexity projects. 
 

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Partner with Product Management, Technical Program Management, Software Developers, UX/UI Designers, and Global Brand Teams to execute and deliver upon high-complexity digital experiences.
• Supervise all aspects of production, manage vendor relations, assure product feasibility, timelines, and budget, oversee and manage asset deliverables.
• Serve as primary liaison with vendor partners and asset creators.
• Lead reviews of build milestones, providing guidance and feedback to vendors and tech teams with a product-first mindset focused on creating the highest quality experiences.
• Stay on top of industry trends and the competitive landscape to help continually evolve our thinking and product standards.
• Ensure continuous improvement by analyzing game performance to identify areas of optimization.
   

What We’re Looking For: 

• 3+ years of production/project management experience in app development or digital gaming, ideally working with well-known brands.
• Detailed understanding of the principles of app production and first-party standards.
• Strong time management, planning and project execution skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build solid collaborative relationships.
• Experience with project management tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Highly organized project manager, detail-oriented with strong follow-up skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for cutting edge technologies, AI, games, apps, toys.
• Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves.
• Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves.

The annual base salary range for this position is between $117,000 and $142,000
**This range is indicative of projected hiring range, however annual base salary will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:

We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Flexible Work:

We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.

Who We Are:

Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and protected veteran status, disability status, and or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment.

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