Senior Product Designer - Games

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.

The Opportunity

Mattel is looking for an imaginative and highly skilled Senior Product Designer to help create the next generation of play experiences across one of the world's most iconic games portfolios. From UNO, Pictionary, Scrabble, Phase 10, Skip-Bo, Blokus, KerPlunk!, and beyond, you'll design products that bring people together through play.

This is a hands-on design role for someone who understands that great games are built through strong ideas, thoughtful mechanics, rapid prototyping, meaningful playtesting, and relentless refinement. You'll transform concepts into physical products that are intuitive, engaging, and unmistakably Mattel.

Working across Design, Marketing, Engineering, Consumer Insights, Packaging, Licensing, and Operations, you'll help bring new gameplay experiences from early concept through commercialization.

What Your Impact Will Be

What We’re Looking For

Responsibilities

Design and develop new gameplay experiences across Mattel's portfolio of family, party, strategy, and card games.; Take projects from early concept exploration through prototyping, playtesting, refinement, and final product execution.; Apply game design principles, player psychology, consumer insights, and a strong understanding of player behavior to create experiences that are simple to learn, rewarding to play, and built for repeat engagement.; Build and test prototypes quickly, using playtesting and consumer feedback to improve mechanics, pacing, accessibility, and overall player experience.; Explore opportunities to evolve established brands while contributing original ideas for entirely new ways to play.; Translate gameplay into intuitive, beautifully crafted physical products, components, and interactions.; Develop clear design solutions through sketching, model making, CAD, rendering, prototyping, and other appropriate visualization tools.; Partner closely with Engineering and Packaging to balance creativity with manufacturing feasibility, quality, cost, and sustainability.; Make thoughtful decisions around materials, component design, ergonomics, visual hierarchy, tactile interaction, and overall product experience.; Review prototypes and production samples to help preserve design intent and gameplay integrity through manufacturing.; Partner effectively across Product Design, Graphic Design, Narrative Design, Marketing, Consumer Insights, Engineering, Licensing, and external development partners.; Present concepts and design rationale clearly, using strong visual storytelling to build alignment and move work forward.; Participate actively in design critiques, contributing constructive feedback while incorporating input from others to strengthen the work.; Share knowledge, techniques, and perspective with junior designers, helping raise the quality of thinking and execution across the team.; Manage multiple projects and priorities across different stages of development while maintaining a high standard of creative execution.; Identify design challenges early, develop practical solutions, and make informed tradeoffs throughout development.; Contribute to evolving design tools, workflows, and best practices that support faster iteration and stronger collaboration across the Games organization.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in game design, toy design, industrial design, consumer product design, or a closely related field, with demonstrated experience developing physical products.; Experience designing tabletop, card, party, strategy, family, or adjacent play experiences, with a strong understanding of what creates engaging gameplay.; Demonstrated experience with ideation, prototyping, playtesting, iteration, and product development from concept through production.; Strong industrial design fundamentals, including sketching, form development, prototyping, visualization, and 3D design tools.; Understanding of consumer product development, materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, and production constraints.; Ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling concepts and presentations.; Strong collaboration, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.; Curiosity about how and why people play, with a passion for creating products that bring people together.

Nice to have

Experience shipping commercially successful tabletop, card, or family games.; Experience facilitating structured playtesting or working with consumer research.; Experience working across licensed entertainment brands or global product development organizations.; Familiarity with modern tabletop gaming trends, mechanics, and player communities.; A genuine love of games and play, whether that's inventing mechanics, hosting game nights, collecting modern board games, or simply obsessing over why a great game works.