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Mattel's Digital Gaming team is seeking a Director of Strategic Initiatives to play a central role in driving execution across a dynamic and growing digital portfolio. This role partners closely with the Head of Digital to translate strategic priorities into measurable outcomes, leading high-impact initiatives from planning through delivery.

The Director will own cross-functional coordination, operating cadences, and governance across teams and external partners such as Mattel163, ensuring alignment on roadmaps, milestones, and decision-making. This position serves as a critical hub for visibility, execution, and collaboration---bringing structure to complex initiatives, accelerating decision velocity, and ensuring consistent progress across the product lifecycle.

Mattel is hiring a high-agency operator to help the Head of Digital turn priorities into outcomes across Digital Gaming, Digital Experiences, and Future Lab. This role owns the planning, cross-functional execution, and operating mechanisms behind critical initiatives so leaders have clarity, teams have momentum, and work lands with measurable progress.

You will lead high-priority initiatives end-to-end, create visibility across the digital portfolio, and improve decision velocity in a matrixed environment, including tight collaboration with Mattel163.

Responsibilities

Build and run an operating cadence for the Head of Digital's leadership agenda (e.g., weekly leadership syncs, monthly initiative/performance reviews, quarterly planning/offsites), including agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, and follow-through
Create lightweight governance for cross-functional execution, including clear owners, timelines, and escalation paths, especially for initiatives that cut across product, tech, brand, legal, and finance
Partner with Finance and functional leaders to coordinate planning cycles, resource allocation conversations, and performance reporting (scope of ownership to be confirmed)
Drive decision-quality by structuring options, surfacing constraints, and packaging recommendations into clear, executive-ready narratives and materials

Own the strategic initiatives portfolio "single source of truth" across Digital Gaming, Digital Experiences, and Future Lab (priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions) so leadership can make timely trade-offs
Coordinate cross-functional approvals and dependencies that sit between Mattel and Mattel163 (e.g., brand, legal, finance, marketing, product/tech), including clear handoffs, turnaround expectations, and escalation paths
Own the operating cadence and collaboration model with Mattel163, including joint planning, roadmap and release alignment, monthly performance reviews, and a shared risk/decision log
Lead high-priority strategic initiatives end-to-end, from framing and planning through execution, stakeholder alignment, and delivery

Required Skills & Experience

7 years in strategy, strategic initiatives/programs, business operations, product ops, program management, consulting, or equivalent, ideally in gaming, interactive experiences, tech, entertainment, or consumer digital
Practical analytical and financial fluency (e.g., KPIs, business cases, scenario thinking)-depth required will depend on scope
Strong structuring and problem-solving you can turn messy problems into clear options, trade-offs, and decisions
Comfort operating with ambiguity and urgency while maintaining high standards and strong follow-through

Experience partnering with an internal or external studio/partner and driving outcomes across organizational boundaries (e.g., portfolio governance, planning cadence, shared metrics)
Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders and ambiguous inputs
A track record of process design that teams actually adopt (rituals, templates, governance that reduces friction)
Demonstrated strength in executive communication (clear writing, sharp decks, decision-oriented readouts)

Benefits

Mattel's award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more

Environment

Position Overview Mattel's Digital Gaming team is seeking a Director of Strategic Initiatives to play a central role in driving execution across a dynamic and growing digital portfolio

The Director will own cross-functional coordination, operating cadences, and governance across teams and external partners such as Mattel163, ensuring alignment on roadmaps, milestones, and decision-making

This position serves as a critical hub for visibility, execution, and collaboration---bringing structure to complex initiatives, accelerating decision velocity, and ensuring consistent progress across the product lifecycle

This role owns the planning, cross-functional execution, and operating mechanisms behind critical initiatives so leaders have clarity, teams have momentum, and work lands with measurable progress

You will lead high-priority initiatives end-to-end, create visibility across the digital portfolio, and improve decision velocity in a matrixed

including tight collaboration with Mattel163

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