Manager Product Design

Found in: Resume Library US A2 - 7 days ago


El Segundo California, United States Mattel Full time
Job Description

The Opportunity: 

The Product Design Manager will lead and inspire a group of designers on the Imaginext brand, creating innovative products that are rooted in trends, kid insights and fun play.  The Product Design Manager will execute and help create product design visions, strengthen the voice of our designers and will be ready for any hands-on managing that is required to keep the business moving.  You will guide, nurture and grow your design team to empower the future leaders within the organization.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

The Business

You have a thorough understanding of the toy product design-development processesFrom ideation sketches, illustrations, rough models, to final modeling and production

Have your finger on the pulse for the latest in toy trends, materials, content and innovation

Have a clear understanding of the Toy industry, with familiarity of toys both past and present in the preschool and action figure categories.

You are a strategic design thinker:Able to contribute and execute on product design vision

Brings fresh POV with innovative design concepts

Understands systems of play within Imaginext

Understand the stories, essence and lifestyle of our licensed brand portfolio as it comes to life in toys

Build strategy around a toy line across a variety of price points and play styles

Solid understanding of how to design for the target consumer, influenced by kid usability and parent expectations and needs

Can take in feedback and commentary on projects and revise where necessary

You are a visual designerAble to create visual design language in a product that is suitable for the pre-school audience

Set the visual stage in color, shape and story every season by presenting and applying trend

Understanding of how play and design work together in product to tell a story

An excellent communicator:Able to present to an audience of varying sizes both clearly and confidently

Can take concepts and distill them into a clear, understandable narrative to garner buy-in throughout the organization through a variety of medium

Collaborator:Work with outside licensors to build the best product.  To be able to be a problem solver, partner and toy advocate.  To share communication in both directions to ensure alignment across all parties.

Working with Mattel’s Consumer Insights team to identify opportunities, consumer needs, parent, and kid purchase behaviors

Partner with Mattel’s cross-function team of experts in Marketing, Packaging, Engineering and Product Management.  

You are nimble:Able to pivot and revise on projects and strategy where business necessitates

Occasionally participate in design efforts outside of your area of expertise, and as your own skillset dictates

Multi-tasker:On projects with varying complexity through maximization of your design team and internal / external resources of Mattel (Internal cross function team, International Mattel partners, outside vendors)

Can jump in on any given situation as a hands-on manager to assist your design team

The Team

You are a design leaderYou manage a team of designers and empower them to grow and foster forward thinking

Able to form a strong business relationship with your team gaining trust through collaboration, guidance, teamwork and empathy

You will maximize each designers’ skill within the team and nurture their areas of opportunity

You will guide your team to best fulfill strategic product needs

You can lead but also be led

You are a role-modelLead by example and maintain professionalism, representing the core values of Mattel

You are passionate and inspire your design team to make toys that matter and make an impact


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