Technical Manager, Digital Gaming at Mattel

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s additionally our future. Because we don’t simply make toys. We create progressive merchandise and experiences that encourage followers, entertain audiences and develop youngsters via play. Mattel is at its greatest when each member of our workforce feels revered, included, and heard—when everybody can present up as themselves and do their greatest work every single day. We worth and share an infinite vary of concepts and voices that evolve and broaden our views with a attain that extends into all our manufacturers, companions, and suppliers.

The Team:

Mattel Game Studios’ mission is to harness the ability of Mattel’s iconic manufacturers and IP to create all kinds of participating digital video games. Guided by {industry} leaders with many years of expertise, our workforce is constructing progressive, participating experiences that convey beloved manufacturers to life for gamers worldwide. 

If you might be keen about gaming and desperate to be a part of a dynamic, forward-thinking workforce in household leisure, that is the chance for you! 

The Opportunity: 

We are in search of a Technical Manager to offer hands-on technical oversight and publishing help throughout a number of sport titles in growth with exterior studios. This position ensures Mattel’s publishing objectives are achieved via high-quality execution, danger mitigation, and seamless integration of Mattel Game Studios publishing platform and companies. With a robust give attention to cell free-to-play growth and reside operations, you’ll play a essential position in safeguarding the supply and making certain long-term success of our titles. 

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Uphold high quality and scale back danger by vetting technical designs, assessing associate capabilities, and creating mitigation methods. 

• Support the simultaneous growth of a number of titles, making certain consistency, effectivity, and alignment with Mattel’s publishing platform companies. 

• Collaborate carefully with manufacturing, design, artwork, LiveOps, and QA groups to ship technically sound, high-quality merchandise that meet enterprise targets. 

• Provide technical oversight on key areas reminiscent of engineering practices, efficiency optimization, service integration, and backend applied sciences that scale globally. 

• Get hands-on when wanted—digging into points, conducting deep evaluation, and driving decision of advanced technical issues. 

• Deliver clear and well timed reporting to management, together with danger assessments, technical evaluations, and standing updates. 

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years in cell sport growth and/or publishing, with direct involvement in shipped merchandise. 

• Proven expertise supporting third-party growth groups, resolving engineering challenges, and guiding technical path. 

• Experience supporting a number of tasks in a publishing atmosphere. 

• Solid understanding of the free-to-play ecosystem and LiveOps necessities, together with server-authoritative sport loops and analytics/experimentation frameworks. 

• Familiarity with cell sport growth pipelines, together with construct and content material/artwork workflows that help environment friendly manufacturing. 

• Analytical mindset with the flexibility to steadiness enterprise priorities in opposition to technical dangers; navigating advanced points with well timed and comprehensible suggestions and path. 

• Preferred Qualifications 

• Hands-on expertise with Unity / C# or Unreal Engine / C++. 

• Familiarity with industry-standard instruments and companies reminiscent of Heroic Labs Nakama, GitHub, Backtrace, Jira, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), large information platforms (e.g. BigQuery). 

• Broad information of cell sport growth, together with efficiency optimization, rendering methods, video games backend companies, authentication programs, analytics, multiplayer & social options. 

• Analytical thinker with the flexibility to steadiness enterprise priorities in opposition to technical dangers, offering well timed, comprehensible suggestions and path. 

• Demonstrated a development mindset by staying curious and constantly studying, embracing challenges, and bettering themselves.

*The pay vary is indicative of projected hiring vary, nevertheless base pay will likely be decided primarily based on a candidate’s work location, expertise and expertise. Mattel provides aggressive complete pay applications, complete advantages, and sources to assist empower a tradition the place each worker can attain their full potential. 

Don’t meet each single requirement? At Mattel, we’re devoted to an inclusive office and a tradition of belonging. If you’re enthusiastic about this position however your previous expertise doesn’t align completely with each qualification within the job description, we nonetheless encourage you to use. You could also be simply the fitting candidate for this or different roles. Join Mattel’s Talent Community and begin receiving thrilling updates about our firm, our workers, and our tradition. Also, occupied with signing up for job alerts? Do so right here!

How We Work:
We are a function pushed firm aiming to empower generations to discover the marvel of childhood and attain their full potential. We reside as much as our function using the next behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being part of Mattel means being a part of one workforce with shared values and customary objectives. Every individual counts and dealing carefully collectively at all times brings higher outcomes. Partnership is our course of and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we at all times purpose to search out new and higher methods to create progressive merchandise and experiences. No matter the place you’re employed within the group, you’ll be able to at all times make a distinction and have actual affect. We welcome new concepts and worth new initiatives that problem typical considering.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven firm. We try for excellence and are targeted on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We consider in accountability and possession and know that our persons are at their greatest when they’re empowered to create and ship outcomes.

Who We Are:
Mattel is a number one world toy and household leisure firm and proprietor of some of the iconic model portfolios on the earth. We interact shoppers and followers via our franchise manufacturers, together with Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, in addition to different standard properties that we personal or license in partnership with world leisure corporations. Our choices embody toys, content material, client merchandise, digital and reside experiences. Our merchandise are offered in collaboration with the world’s main retail and ecommerce corporations. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted associate in empowering generations to discover the marvel of childhood and attain their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning office tradition has been acknowledged by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and extra.

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

Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer the place we would like you to convey your genuine self to work every single day. We welcome all job seekers, and all candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, ethnicity, colour, nationwide origin, faith, intercourse, gender, gender identification or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and guarded veteran standing, incapacity standing, and or every other foundation protected by relevant federal, state or native legislation.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, certified candidates with arrest or conviction information will likely be thought-about for employment.

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