Product Designer - Barbie, California

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

The Global Barbie team is seeking a highly skilled, experienced and self-motivated Designer to join its product design team. You’ll play a key role in identifying and developing new product opportunities that resonate with today’s kids by translating consumer insights, emerging trends, and technologies into engaging and successful toys. This includes generating and communicating toy concepts through 2D sketching and/or 3D models, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners in marketing, engineering, and packaging, and ensuring all designs align with Mattel’s standards of quality and brand integrity. The ideal candidate will possess proven product design experience showing ability to work on challenging and fun products as well as ideating new concepts.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

Actively generate new product opportunities to innovate and the brand

Execute on both Product Designs and Graphic Designs

Design and develop fashions, accessories, playsets and / or advertised lines or segments

Builds consensus between members throughout the design process

Partner with Development Design, Engineering, Packaging and Cost Engineering to ensure product integrity and marketing objectives

Daily communication with Asia partners

Successfully present and communicate their concepts to the design and marketing management and creative departments

Manage the early phases of design and development with other disciplines within the company