About the job
Opportunity:
At Mattel, we take pride in providing unique play experiences that foster growth and development, striving to unlock everyone's creative potential.
The ideal candidate will bring creativity and strong industrial design skills to our construction toy design team. The selected individual will be passionate about toys and committed to achieving exceptional results in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment.
Reporting to the Product Design Manager, this role entails developing construction toys from ideation to production follow-ups, including delivering comprehensive technical production specifications. The product design role collaborates with graphic, engineering, and marketing teams.
Your Impact:
- Conceptualize new construction toy ideas;
- Execute product development activities: sketches, block constructions, formal and functional research, defining decorations & colors, etc.;
- Develop a thorough knowledge of licensed properties;
- Create 3D study models (mock-ups and prototypes);
- Prepare presentation images & product submissions;
- Participate in cost and feasibility analyses of products;
- Develop new 3D parts that integrate into the system, ready for injection;
- Plan & generate images for the assembly of instruction booklets;
- Work closely with other departments including engineers, project managers, brand managers, graphic designers, and more;
- Present and communicate various concepts during formal presentations.

