Senior Product Designer - Vehicle Tracks and Playsets

Job Description
The Opportunity: 
Mattel, Inc. is seeking an experienced and self-motivated Sr. Product Designer to join the Vehicle Tracks and Playsets product design team.  Our group is focused on creating new, exciting Vehicles based -toys from Hot Wheels and Thomas & Friends including vehicles, track-sets, playsets, and accessories.  
Our design team is passionate about our target consumer, both parents and kids, staying on top of trends and competitor products all translating into successful product.  This also involves creating and effectively communicating toy concepts in 2D and/or 3D digital and physical models to design, Marketing and Management.  The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of toy play, possess great sketch, illustration and design skills with proven product design experience showing ability to work on challenging and fun products as well as ideating new and innovative concepts to creating the best toys for kids.
What Your Impact Will Be: 
 
Actively generate new toy ideas to enhance Tracks and Playsets
Execute on both Product Designs and Graphic Designs
Design and develops for Tracks and Playsets toys and/or advertised lines or segments of product
Builds alignment and partnerships between members throughout the design process
Partner with cross functional teams including Development Design, Engineering, Packaging and Cost Engineering to ensure product integrity and marketing objectives
Daily communication with our Mattel Asia design and development partners
Successfully present and communicate their concepts to the design, marketing and Management and other creative departments
Manage the early phases of design and development with other disciplines within the company