Associate Manager, Brand Strategy & Activation - Hot Wheels

El Segundo, CA (On-site)

$110K/yr – $125K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end brand marketing and cross-functional alignment, driving campaigns, brand moments, and franchise health through collaboration with content, product, experiences, and marketing teams.

  • Lead cross-functional brand programs and moments across channels
  • Drive campaign planning, brand stories, and performance tracking

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Toy and Franchise Marketing to ensure brand consistency across product, experiences and retail
  • Develops Content in partnership with Mattel Studios to ensure brand objectives and alignment
  • Serve as the cross-functional integrator between content, product, experiences, retail, and marketing
  • With leadership, plan brand “moments” (anniversaries, entertainment launches, retail programs) that supports all businesses at retail and work with commercial partners to ensure flawless execution
  • Translate brand strategy into campaigns, content, and activations
  • With leadership, plan integrated marketing plans (digital, retail, social, influencer, events, PR) and work with commercial partners to execute
  • Ensure media strategy is executed well across regions, and manage day-to-day creative production
  • Ensure creative execution stays consistent with brand positioning (via brand guardrails) and product highlights
  • Ensure brand stories are executed well to drive demand generation, brand love, and consumer loyalty
  • Manage day-to-day execution of agency scope in partnership with brand creative

Requirements

  • 5+ years (3 years with MBA) experience in brand marketing (on brand or agency side), franchise management/marketing, content marketing, or purpose-driven strategy/marketing.
  • Experience managing a portfolio spanning multiple categories (toys, apparel, publishing, etc.).
  • Self-starter who is detail oriented, driven, focused, pro-active and collaborative
  • Strategic thinking: Ability to define brand vision and multi-year roadmaps.
  • Consumer insights & research: Strong understanding of consumer psychology, brand equity drivers, and cultural trends. Ability to synthesize data and pull insights to create recommendations
  • Thorough understanding of marketing mix and KPIs
  • Portfolio management: Balancing toys and non-toy CP categories under a unified brand.
  • Cross-functional leadership: Skilled at influencing Design, Product, Marketing, and Franchise teams without direct authority.
  • Financial acumen: Experience with P&L at the brand or category level.
  • Communication skills: Excellent at storytelling, presentations, and influencing senior leadership. Strong PowerPoint creation and presentation skills, proficiency in Outlook, Word and Excel
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Mattel, Inc.

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We empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.We treat play as if the future depends on it — because it does. Play is our language, and we speak to our consumers authentically by representing the world as they see and imagine it.Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, Polly Pocket, and Barney, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Mattel is recognized as a Great Place to WorkTM and as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators.

Founded in 1945
El Segundo, California, USA
12K employees (2,443 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
50.8%
Referral
3.4%
Social
4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,522 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
8.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
12

Funding

Total Funding
$600M
Last Raise
$600M
Post IPO Debt, 4 months ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $600M

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