Lead Artist – 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 way of play. Mattel is at its greatest when each member of our crew feels revered, included, and heard—when everybody can present up as themselves and do their greatest work each 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 Opportunity: 

We are in search of a extremely organized and versatile Lead Artist to hitch our artwork crew. Reporting to the Art Director, you’ll play a vital position in serving to outline and handle the inventive imaginative and prescient for our cell video games primarily based on beloved Mattel IPs. The supreme candidate is a seasoned artist with robust expertise supporting exterior builders, collaborating throughout departmental management, and showcasing versatility throughout a spread of artwork kinds. A optimistic perspective, wonderful communication expertise, and a progress mindset are key to success on this position.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Develop, refine, and execute high-quality artwork property throughout a number of cell recreation initiatives.
• Directly assist exterior builders by offering inventive steering, suggestions, asset evaluation, paint-overs, illustrating ideas, and clear course to make sure adherence with undertaking objectives.
• Ensure model consistency and adherence to fashion tips throughout all property, whether or not produced internally or by exterior companions.
• Create temper boards, refine pitch decks, illustrate ideas, produce compelling advertising and marketing and UA artwork that aligns with model imaginative and prescient and undertaking necessities.
• Collaborate successfully with different departmental leads and management, together with Design, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing, to align undertaking imaginative and prescient and targets.
• Assist in hiring extra artwork personnel as wanted, together with reviewing portfolios, interviewing candidates, and contributing to the choice course of.
• Demonstrate a versatile inventive method, adapting simply throughout a number of artwork kinds and genres.
• Support and step in for the Art Director as wanted and take possession the place relevant.
• For advertising and marketing, help in visible storytelling through storyboards or promotional visuals.
• Work carefully with manufacturing, take part in brainstorming, dash planning, and pipeline opinions.
• Proactively contribute concepts and options, sustaining an organized workflow, assembly undertaking milestones, and staying attentive to particulars.

What We’re Looking For:

• BA/BS in illustration, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or equal.
• Minimum of 5+ years of expertise as a Lead Artist or above within the cell recreation {industry}.
• Proven expertise supporting and offering clear, actionable suggestions to exterior improvement groups.
• Shipped at the least 2–3 cell recreation titles and supported them by way of dwell operations.
• Strong proficiency in industry-standard artwork software program (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Maya, Unity).
• Exceptional organizational, multitasking, and time administration expertise, with a dedication to assembly deadlines and sustaining high-quality requirements.
• Strong communication and interpersonal expertise with a supportive, team-oriented mindset.
• Proactively incorporate suggestions, take swift motion, and supply well timed updates with out prompting.
• Passionate about Mattel’s iconic IPs and enthusiastic about contributing to their continued evolution and attraction within the cell gaming area.
• An enthusiastic perspective, adaptability, and eagerness to collaborate successfully in a dynamic atmosphere.
• A portfolio demonstrating the related expertise wanted for this position.
• Demonstrated a progress mindset by staying curious and repeatedly studying, embracing challenges, and bettering themselves.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have):

• Prior expertise with IP video games and advertising and marketing artwork for cell platforms.
• Familiarity with dwell operations and post-launch artwork asset manufacturing.
• Knowledge of present {industry} developments and familiarity with market-leading cell video games.
• Experience working in Unreal.

The annual base wage vary for this place is between $96,800 and $137,000.
**This vary is indicative of projected hiring vary, nonetheless annual base wage shall be decided primarily based on a candidate’s work location, expertise and expertise. Mattel affords aggressive whole 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 appropriate candidate for this or different roles.

How We Work:

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

• We collaborate: Being part of Mattel means being a part of one crew 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 intention 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 all the time 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 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 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 one of the vital iconic model portfolios on the earth. We interact customers and followers by way of 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 firms. Our choices embody toys, content material, client merchandise, digital and dwell experiences. Our merchandise are offered in collaboration with the world’s main retail and ecommerce firms. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted companion in empowering generations to discover the surprise 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 wish you to convey your genuine self to work each day. We welcome all job seekers, and all candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, ethnicity, shade, nationwide origin, faith, intercourse, gender, gender id or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and guarded veteran standing, incapacity standing, and or every other foundation protected by relevant federal, state or native regulation.

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

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