Producer, External Development — Mattel Digital Studios

Producer, External Development — Mattel Digital Studios

Creativity is our superpower. It's our heritage and it's also our future. Because we don't just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day.

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.

Mattel Game Studios' mission is to harness the power of Mattel's iconic brands and IP to create a wide variety of engaging digital games. Our team is guided by industry leaders with decades of experience across mobile, console, and live services. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in building innovative digital experiences that resonate with our beloved brands. If you are passionate about gaming and eager to be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team in family entertainment, this is the opportunity for you.

The Producer, External Development at Mattel Game Studios keeps our externally-developed games moving—on schedule, on brief, and on quality. In our publisher model, every title is built by an external studio, which makes disciplined production the difference between a plan and a shipped game.

Working closely with the Lead Producer, Publishing, you will run the day-to-day production process for your titles: tracking milestones, coordinating across internal teams and external partners, surfacing risks early, and keeping communication clear and consistent. This is a hands-on, process-oriented execution role—ideal for someone who brings structure to ambiguity and uses modern, AI-assisted workflows to do it faster and better.

The ideal candidate has real mobile free-to-play production experience, a builder's instinct for process and organization, and a genuine appreciation for Mattel's core brands.

What Your Impact Will Be:

• Production & Delivery Coordination Run the day-to-day production process for your titles: maintain milestone schedules, track deliverables and dependencies, and keep external studios aligned to agreed timelines, scope, and budget expectations—escalating to the Lead Producer when plans need to change.
• Process & Operating Rhythm Establish and maintain the production rituals, documentation, and tracking that keep delivery predictable—milestone definitions, status rollups, risk logs, and meeting cadences across internal teams and external partners.
• AI-Enabled Production Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate the work—status synthesis and reporting, meeting and build-review summaries, documentation and brief drafting, and early risk surfacing—and apply judgment about where AI speeds things up and where it does not.
• Partner Communication Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for external development teams, facilitating clear, consistent communication and timely follow-through.
• Internal Stakeholder Coordination Keep internal Mattel departments—brand, marketing, licensing, legal, and finance—informed and aligned throughout development.
• Product Support Help translate product vision and priorities into clear briefs, requirements, and tasks for external teams, and contribute relevant market and competitive context that keeps titles aligned.
• Brand Stewardship Help ensure external teams understand and uphold Mattel's brand guidelines, providing feedback that protects brand integrity.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience 5+ years in game production, product, or project management within the video game industry, with hands-on mobile free-to-play experience.
• Production Track Record Demonstrable experience helping take games through the development lifecycle, from concept to launch and live operations.
• Process Discipline Strong organizational rigor and fluency with production methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, etc.) and tooling (Jira, Confluence, Asana, etc.). You bring structure to ambiguity and build process that speeds up shipping rather than…