Sr Packaging Designer

Sr Packaging Designer at Mattel Innovation Venture leads the creation and stewardship of breakthrough brand visual identities for new Venture toy packaging from concept through production. Responsible for establishing brand guidelines and style guides, translating strategy and consumer insights into distinctive, premium design systems across packaging, digital, e-commerce, retail, and other consumer touchpoints. Leads design exploration from concept to production, builds executive-level presentations to communicate vision, and guides internal teams and external vendors (illustrators, photographers, retouchers) to deliver high-quality, scalable creative work. Applies AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate ideation, mood development, visualization, concept iteration, and presentation development, while balancing creative ambition with manufacturing realities and cost constraints. Reports to cross-functional partners across product design, marketing, insights, engineering, program management, legal, licensing, e-commerce, and global teams to ensure assets deliver on strategy and can be executed at scale. Demonstrates strong storytelling, design systems development, and ability to defend concepts to senior leadership and executives.