Junior Product Development Program Manager

Mattel, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 71,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Mattel, Inc. seeks a Development Program Management Associate I to join our Product Development team at the El Segundo campus. You will help manage projects from concept through production with a world-wide, cross-functional team across Design, Development, Marketing, and Manufacturing.

The role emphasizes organization, multi-project juggling, and effective communication across global teams. You will develop cost estimates, drive schedules, and ensure product quality and consumer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of relevant project management experience
• Proven ability to juggle multiple projects, make quick decisions, and possess excellent problem-solving skills
• Comfortable leading cross-functional teams
• Excellent organizational skills are must
• Must be comfortable with systems and data entry
• Relationship building and customer-facing skills
• Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves.

Responsibilities

• Managing multiple projects of varying product types and complexities while maintaining cost and schedule targets.
• Working closely with overseas development, tooling, and manufacturing to ensure successful project completion.
• Troubleshoot production level samples and make suggestions to fix defects, improve mechanisms, and guarantee end-consumer satisfaction.
• Develop, maintain and drive schedule execution of worldwide products.
• Act as liaison between El Segundo teams and overseas locations throughout the product life cycle.
• Reviewing concept sketches and providing support for products in the preliminary design phase.
• Working with external development sources to engineer the product.
• Managing project schedules and product costs.
• Develop cost estimates and provide cost /financial analyses for different types of products.
• Analyze product design to affect maximum utilization of materials, methods and processes in order to meet cost objectives and quality specifications.
• Examine product components to ascertain purpose, cost and value by utilizing knowledge of product design and budgetary considerations.
• Guide cross-functional teams into optimizing the content and features of products given the constraints of selling price and margins.

Education

BA/BS in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial) or related discipline

Job description

Mattel, Inc. seeks a Development Program Management Associate I to join our Product Development team at the El Segundo campus. You will help manage projects from concept through production with a world-wide, cross-functional team across Design, Development, Marketing, and Manufacturing.

The role emphasizes organization, multi-project juggling, and effective communication across global teams. You will develop cost estimates, drive schedules, and ensure product quality and consumer satisfaction.