Software Engineering Manager - Hasbro

We take play seriously. We’re looking for curious adventurers ready to find their party, fueled by imagination and drive to build what’s never been built before. At Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, you’ll collaborate with passionate teams to reimagine our iconic brands and create experiences that spark joy, connection, and community through the magic of play. This is your chance to shape legendary play that lasts a lifetime.

At Hasbro, our mission is to entertain and connect generations of fans through the wonder of storytelling and exhilaration of play. We're looking for adventurous and curious people who want to explore, experiment, and innovate to come up with the best ideas. Our culture has inspired our diverse team of highly skilled, highly creative, and highly committed individuals for 100 years and we believe the best is yet to come.

We're building something new inside our AI Studio, and we're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to help shape it with us. This role sits at the center of a new and constantly evolving business area. The problems are still taking shape, and the systems are actively being built. What excites us is the opportunity to push the boundaries of what stories and characters can be and to use technology to bring iconic IP to life in ways never before imagined.

We work where storytelling, imagination, and technology converge. Our focus is on defining and building the core systems that transform characters and worlds from something audiences watch into something they can interact with and engage over time.

This role helps build both a new technical foundation and a new team. Working closely with a small group of senior engineers, creative partners, and brand leaders, this Software Engineering Manager will deliver work that is visible, impactful, and foundational to how we bring characters to life. Success here means turning ambiguity into reliable, scalable technology-and building the organization that can sustain and grow it. This is an explicitly hands-on role, especially early on, where getting into the platform and shipping code is as important as growing the team around it.

What You'll Do

In this role, the work is both technical and organizational. Near-term, that means contributing directly: architecting systems, writing/reviewing code, establishing practices that hold as the team scales, and driving continuity. Longer-term, it means building and managing the team itself: recruiting, shaping the technical roadmap, and partnering across product, creative, and business to define what comes next.

You will:

• Architect, build, and ship features for our AI-powered character platform - including LLM service integrations, REST APIs, and the tooling that lets internal and external partners configure and deliver character experiences.