Senior Technical Product Manager, Applied AI - Mattel Digital Studio at Mattel
El Segundo, CA
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Jul 29, 2026
El Segundo, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Technical Product Manager role within Mattel Digital Studios focused on identifying, building, and scaling AI-powered tools and workflow automations across the organization. The position blends hands-on prototyping — using LLM APIs, agent frameworks, and orchestration tools — with full product ownership from proof-of-concept through production rollout, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business impact. It suits a technically fluent PM who can both build working AI solutions and drive cross-functional adoption.
Senior level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 160 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 60–210
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $112,112 (middle half $73,931–$166,799).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The SOC classification is a close call: this role is framed as a Technical Product Manager but explicitly requires hands-on building of AI prototypes, pipelines, and automations — more than a typical PM role. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best fit for a hybrid technical PM/applied-AI builder; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the runner-up given the hands-on engineering expectations.
The posting states '5–8+ years' of experience; 5 is used as the minimum.
A Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Product Design is listed as required, but the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is treated as a hard gate.
A Master's degree in CS or a related field is listed as preferred, not required.
Retool and low-code automation appear in the requirements section as examples within a parenthetical list alongside clearly required tools; they are marked preferred given their illustrative framing ('etc.') rather than as standalone hard gates.
No compensation figures are provided beyond a note that a pay range is 'indicative of projected hiring range' with no actual numbers disclosed.
The posting references collaboration with OpenAI as an external partner, which reinforces OpenAI API as a named required tool rather than merely a vendor relationship.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): low-code automation.
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