Sr Producer, Mattel 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 kids by play. Mattel is at its finest when each member of our workforce feels revered, included, and heard—when everybody can present up as themselves and do their finest work on daily basis. 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 is searching for a Senior Producer to take a key function in creating an upcoming informal recreation. The Senior Producer will oversee your entire recreation growth course of, from idea to launch and past. This place includes being the first contact for exterior builders, managing mission and milestone schedules, submission planning, and general growth plans, whereas offering ongoing oversight all through the product lifecycle.

The Opportunity: 

This function companions carefully with Product management and cross-functional stakeholders (Design, Art, Engineering, QA, Analytics, Monetization, Growth/UA, LiveOps, Brand, Legal, and Platform) to translate technique into scoped work, practical plans, and measurable outcomes. You will monitor supply well being utilizing capability/velocity and join execution to participant outcomes (engagement/retention) the place related. The superb candidate is captivated with informal cellular gaming and retains updated with the newest market tendencies and information.

Core Outputs

· Production schedules and standing reporting that precisely monitor progress and forecast supply

· Release readiness checklists, high quality gates, and go/no-go resolution assist

· A visual threat register with house owners, mitigations, and escalation triggers

· Clear stakeholder communications (weekly exec standing; milestone readouts; resolution logs)

· Post-mortems and course of/tooling enhancements that improve throughput and scale back repeat points

What Your Impact Will Be: 

· Own supply predictability utilizing capability planning, velocity/throughput monitoring, and scope tradeoffs to maintain commitments practical and sustainable.

· Lead the exterior growth accomplice’s execution: milestone definitions, dash commitments, escalation paths, and integration into Mattel’s launch cadence.

· Maintain a single supply of reality in Jira (or equal) for scope, dash readiness, dependency monitoring, and supply standing; implement dash hygiene and backlog readiness.

· Run the working rhythm: planning, execution syncs, dependency evaluations, threat evaluations, and launch readiness (checklists/high quality gates), plus post-mortems to enhance reliability over time.

· Own submission and launch planning throughout mushy launch and world launch: platform necessities, construct sign-offs, launch coordination, and rollback/contingency planning.

· Drive construct evaluations and milestone evaluations to validate progress throughout design, content material, engineering, efficiency, UX, and stability; implement high quality bars earlier than releases.

· Partner with LiveOps/Product to translate technique right into a shipped cadence: occasions/presents/content material beats (as relevant), operational readiness, and clear KPI targets for iteration.

· Communicate clearly and credibly: concise standing updates, exec readouts, resolution framing, and tradeoff suggestions.

· Foster a tradition of transparency and accountability: practical planning, clear possession, and disciplined follow-through.

What We’re Looking For:

 

· 7+ years of expertise in recreation growth or product administration throughout varied platforms corresponding to social, F2P, cellular, net, console, and handheld.

· 2+ years of expertise as a Producer within the video games business, together with main the event of recreation options and companies.

· Proven skill to collaborate with and handle exterior growth groups.

· Strong mission administration abilities, with expertise utilizing mission administration instruments and methodologies.

· Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.

· In-depth data of manufacturing, understanding frequent challenges confronted by groups, and offering tailor-made options.

· Data-informed decision-making: in a position to accomplice with Analytics/Monetization/Growth to prioritize work primarily based on outcomes, not opinions.

· Demonstrated important contributions to advanced cross-functional tasks, efficiently delivering high quality, adhering to schedules, and balancing scope, capability, funds, threat, and time.

· Experience managing a various workforce of builders, together with programmers, artists, animators, designers, and testers.

· Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

· A ardour for gaming with a deep understanding of the gaming panorama and the sport growth life cycle.

· A proactive mindset with the flexibility to adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced surroundings.

· Experience with licensed video games is a bonus.

 

*The pay vary is indicative of projected hiring vary, nevertheless base pay might be decided primarily based on a candidate’s work location, abilities and expertise. Mattel presents aggressive complete pay packages, 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 function 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 precise candidate for this or different roles. Join Mattel’s Talent Community and begin receiving thrilling updates about our firm, our staff, and our tradition. Also, excited about signing up for job alerts? Do so right here!

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

• We collaborate: Being part of Mattel means being a part of one workforce with shared values and customary objectives. Every particular person counts and dealing carefully collectively all the time brings higher outcomes. Partnership is our course of and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we all the time purpose to seek out new and higher methods to create progressive merchandise and experiences. No matter the place you’re employed within the group, you possibly can all the time make a distinction and have actual impression. We welcome new concepts and worth new initiatives that problem standard considering.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven firm. We attempt for excellence and are centered on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We consider in accountability and possession and know that our individuals are at their finest 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 one of the vital iconic model portfolios on this planet. We interact shoppers and followers by 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 fashionable properties that we personal or license in partnership with world leisure corporations. Our choices embody toys, content material, shopper merchandise, digital and dwell experiences. Our merchandise are bought in collaboration with the world’s main retail and ecommerce corporations. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted accomplice in empowering generations to discover the surprise of childhood and attain their full potential.

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