Building Experience Associate Designer

The Opportunity: 

At Mattel, we pride ourselves on providing unique play experiences that stimulate growth and development, striving to unleash the creative potential of everyone.

As a Building Experience Associate Designer, you are responsible for shaping the way users of all ages engage with Mattel Building Sets, during the building and play phases. This role ensures that the journey from opening a box to completing a model is smooth, intuitive, delightful, and enriching.

You will be part of the​ Product Design team that create, develop and execute innovative construction toys.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Design, Engineering, Marketing, Quality, and others) to ensure the ​play experience is aligned with the intention of the different product elements while captivating kids and families around the globe.​

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Collaborate with Product Designers, Engineers and Graphic Designers to visualize the best building process.​
• Collaborate with Marketing and Project Managers to ensure cohesive product experience and brand alignment.​
• Develop clear, consistent, engaging and intuitive step-by-step building instructions.​
• Conduct playtests and usability studies to observe how users build and interact with Mattel Building Sets products, iterate on design when needed.​
• Create and present building journeys that support flow state, surprise and accomplished sense through clever part usage and narrative integration.​
• Create digital renders using tools such as Solidworks and Adobe Creative Suites.​
• Stay up to date with competitor products.​
• Ensure the building experience adheres to Mattel’s quality standards.​
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and creative workshops.​