About this role
About the Role Senior Technical Product Manager, Applied AI will define, build, and scale AI-powered tools, workflows, and decision-support systems across Mattel Digital Studios. You will identify friction in cross-functional workflows and translate it into a prioritized AI portfolio that drives measurable business value. The role spans quick wins, efficiency gains, and strategic bets, with hands-on yet product-focused execution across prototypes to full deployment.
What You'll Do
- Own the applied AI roadmap from pitch to production — with direction and buy-in from MDS leadership, balancing speed, experimentation, and long-term value creation.
- Identify and surface use cases and friction—assessing feasibility and scalability, translating them into high-impact AI opportunities.
- Manage the opportunity portfolio—graduating the strongest proofs-of-concept into strategic pilots and broader MDS rollout.
- Translate business needs into AI-powered tools, workflow automations, and decision-support solutions, defining clear requirements, success metrics, adoption targets, and iteration plans.
- Experiment, Innovate & Build — continuously explore emerging AI capabilities and evaluate their application for internal tools, workflows, and content pipelines; build prototypes, lightweight applications, automations, and decision-support tools; rapidly test and iterate with measurable operational impact.
- Partner with engineering, platform, and external vendors to productize, harden, and scale successful prototypes—owning build-vs-buy judgment and seeing opportunities through to live deployment.
- Act as a bridge between MDS leadership, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Creative teams to identify and unlock AI opportunities within MDS.