Lead Product Development Engineer

Lead Product Development Engineer

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that's why we want you!

What will you work on?

The Lead Product Development Engineer (Lead PDE) will be responsible for driving the technical execution of global toys, from concept through production, and ensuring performance, cost, quality, and schedule adherence. The position will provide expertise in proven techniques for successful product development and design for manufacturing/assembly. The Lead PDE will work closely with large cross-functional teams (Design, Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Packaging, etc.)

to manage development throughout the entire product lifecycle.

How will you create impact?

• Collaborate with GBU (Design and Brand teams) on generating new concepts and provide technical and cost assessment.
• Ability to create and impart best practices to effectively support high complexity items, strategic initiatives, and early concept explorations.
• Identify issues, formulate resolution action plan, and execute through to completion with limited oversight– leverage executive leadership and functional partners to gain necessary resources and support.
• Lead strategic initiatives around operational innovation, efficiencies, or other improvements to significantly impact product development and/or processes.
• Explore new materials, technology, and manufacturing processes to continuously push Spin Master to the forefront of product development.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure milestones and integration are on-time.
• Provide mechanical, material, electro-mechanical, and/or mechatronic engineering expertise throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Lead prototyping and proof-of-concept builds to de-risk and test new mechanisms, key features, and/or gameplay feasibility.
• Lead strategic initiatives around operational innovation, efficiencies, or other improvements to significantly impact product development and/or processes.
• Detail design of components and products for manufacturing, optimizing DMF/A.
• Create product and performance specifications.
• Be key point of contact with Manufacturing Engineering teams (in Asia, Mexico, EU, etc), and ensure alignment on all project details.
• Lead product review meetings and create action plan for technical deliverables.
• Drive productivity by implementing design for manufacturing/assembly up front.
• Use PLM software to manage and track key deliverables; proactively resolve potential issues to keep the product on track, on cost, and on specification.
• Explore new materials, technology, and manufacturing processes
• Ability to travel internationally to support projects.

What are your skills and experience?

• Experience working with and/or managing creative professionals (designers and engineers) both within and outside the company.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers, develop talent, and model professionalism.
• Strong Knowledge of Solid Works, injection molding tooling and manufacturing processes.
• BS/MS in Mechanical preferred
• Experience with plastics, materials, manufacturing, and/or engineering costs for durable goods.
• Toy or CPG experience an asset.

The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Los Angeles is $110,000 to $115,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What you can expect from us:

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What's it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn't for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.