Lead Digital Producer, Future Lab Product Studio

Company Description

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. 

Job Description

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 Fortnite/UEFN and Roblox (Creator Platforms) production, Mobile App Development, and ideally has worked with well-known brands, either for a developer or a licensor. Passion for digital games, 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. 

• Lead end-to-end delivery of user-generated content (UGC) gaming experiences, defining production pipelines, development milestones, and quality standards across platforms. 

• Serve as primary liaison with vendor partners and Mattel cross-functional teams. 

• Oversee and manage asset deliverables and approvals. 

• 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.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For:

• Demonstrated track record of producing experiences for top-tier entertainment brands or licensed IP.  

• Ability to translate brand objectives into engaging digital gameplay experiences. 

• Skilled at partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including brand, franchise, and marketing teams, to ensure alignment from concept through launch

• 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 mobile app production, creator platforms publishing such as UEFN and Roblox, 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 Asana, Jira, and Confluence. 

• Highly organized project manager, detail-oriented with strong follow-up 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 continuo