Mattel
Senior Technical Product Manager, Applied AI - Mattel Digital Studio
El Segundo, CALIFORNIA, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Mattel Digital Studios (MDS) is a cross-functional division that leverages digital innovation to amplify Mattel's iconic brands, expanding into digital gaming, interactive experiences, and emerging technologies.
- As part of this ecosystem, the Applied AI function sits at the intersection of product innovation and technical execution-unlocking new capabilities across creative workflows, internal tooling, and development pipelines.
- Unlike traditional product roles, this position requires hands-on technical execution.
Responsibilities
- We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play.
- 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.
- You will manage a portfolio framed in three buckets - Quick Wins, Efficiency Gains, and Strategic Bets - with the strongest opportunities progressing from proof-of-concept into strategic pilot and broader MDS rollout.
- You will partner with MDS leadership and the Product, Engineering, Operations, and Creative teams, bringing external vendors where buying beats building.
- You will also help flag and manage adoption risk-data quality, model accuracy and reliability, brand and creative integrity, and appropriate guardrails-partnering with the Office of AI and other governance stakeholders as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Product Design, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Demonstrated ability to take an AI solution from prototype through productization and rollout - including stakeholder alignment, enablement, and measuring business impact post-deployment - not just define requirements.
- Strong product and operator mindset, with the ability to diagnose workflow pain points and connect user needs and business goals to technical solutions.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and navigate emerging technology landscapes.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Masters in Computer Science or related field preferred.
Company info
- Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world.
- We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies.
- Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences.
- Our products are sold in collaboration with the world's leading retail and ecommerce companies.
- Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.
- Mattel's award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.
- Opportunity:
- The MDS Tech organization serves as the technical foundation across this portfolio, building scalable systems, tools, and platforms that enable product teams to move quickly and deliver high-quality digital experiences.
- Working across multiple products and partners, the team focuses on unlocking the value of AI, data, and modern development frameworks to power personalization, content creation, and next-generation play experiences.
- What Your Impact Will Be:
- As a Senior Technical Product Manager, Applied AI, you will define, build, and scale AI-powered tools, workflows, and decision-support systems across Mattel Digital Studios.
- You will be accountable for identifying friction in cross-functional workflows - process misalignment, communication overhead, unreliable data, and stretched team bandwidth - and for translating that friction into a prioritized portfolio of AI solutions that measurably move the business.
- The scope spans workflow automation, internal tooling, creative and content-generation tools, and decision-support systems tied to real operational use cases.
- You will actively build prototypes, experiment with AI models and APIs, and develop working solutions; but success goes beyond prototyping - it is seeing opportunities through productization, rollout, stakeholder alignment, team enablement, and repeatability across disciplines.
- This role is critical in ensuring that AI efforts are grounded in real business and user value, avoiding both strategy without execution and technology without clear application.
- This role reports to the MDS Technical Director and works cross-functionally across MDS.
- Do you or someone you know have a passion to create products that inspire, entertain, and delight fans of all ages?
- Join us to create the future of play.
This listing is sourced directly from Mattel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.