Job Description

The Prospect:

The role of the Product Development Engineering Manager is built upon demonstrating a high level of business/role acumen and assuming responsibility for end-to-end ownership of their roles while serving our customers. This is a high growth, high visibility role with the opportunity to have frequent communication with senior management.

What Your Impact Will Be:

- Managing and Training employees (30%)
- Managing a team of five to six employees, providing day-to-day guidance, support, and performance feedback
- Acting as the team’s Mentor, driving adoption of digital tools and best practices across the group
- Supporting employee development through onboarding, training, and regular coaching conversations

- Establishing Mattel Engineering Footprint in India (25%)

- Drive a positive culture within the Mattel India engineering team
- Actively work on establishing and improving the engagement of the India based team
- Establish an internship program through local universities to foster regional awareness and growth within the department

- Ensuring scheduled deadlines are met (15%)

- Working with India based Manufacturing Vendors to maintain back-end schedule commitments and on time production starts
- Attending on-site meetings in Asia as needed (CR, Debug,



Value Engineering, etc)
- Evening meetings with North America, often multiple times per week as needed to align with management and global brand team

- Optimizing toy designs for manufacturing (10%)

- Reviewing upfront toy designs for manufacturability and working with the tooling vendor or engineering teams to optimize for India Manufacturing
- Making modifications to existing multi-year items to increase consumer experience, improve star ratings, and/or reduce cost

- Optimizing product cost (5%)

- Collaborating with our cross-functional teams and refining costs
- Working with Asia and North America counterparts, in live VC’s, to brainstorm multiple cost scenarios and reductions
- Participating in shop floor Kaizen’s to cost reduce items

- Ensuring adherence to product quality and safety regulations (5%)

- Working with local manufacturing teams to ensure ongoing product quality is maintained throughout the product lifecycle
- Routinely checking in with manufacturing vendors to ensure reliable and repeatable product assembly meeting Mattel ongoing quality expectations.
- Overseeing the implementation and execution of corrective actions to existing product

📌 Manager Product Development Engineer (Belagavi)
🏢 Mattel
📍 Belagavi