Design Manager, Element Lead – LEGO® DESiGN

Job Description

Are you looking for an outstanding opportunity to become part of a dedicated team, that finds crafting play experiences for kids all over the world truly exciting?

If yes, then come and join us! Bring your passion of leading through others together with your creative skills and help us deliver innovative designs for our playful audience!

Core Responsibilities

Lead and facilitate the element design process from ideation phase to final product by translating and implementing the creative design direction. Own and drive the element planning process and partner management – delivering new LEGO® elements through a team of element designers.

Collaborate closely with Creative leads, Engineering team, and other internal partners to deliver new LEGO parts. Work on partner management, enabling a smooth design process with our collaborators. Focus on innovation, new play experiences and results. Drive several projects simultaneously.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Element Design is the key department in the development of new LEGO bricks. We are passionate about refining ideas and designs into real bricks. The department brings key innovation, new bricks and parts to the full LEGO portfolio.

Element Design department is delivering key innovation, new elements into LEGO experiences, responsible for over 350 elements per portfolio year.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate for this position has a background and experience in leading design processes from start to finish. Relevant education in a design-related field, such as Product Design or Industrial Design, would be a plus.

In addition, knowledge of 3D software that is allowing you to understand and collaborate with designers is an advantage.

Knowledge of Injection Moulding processes is also an advantage, to ensure successfully manufactured designs. Finally, experience with project management and partner management is a plus, as you will be working with a team of designers, engineers, and manufacturers to bring designs to life.

Overall, we are looking for someone with a passion for design and a strong understanding of the design process as well as indirect team management. You possess the skills and experience vital to build beautiful and functional products that meet the needs and desires of children.

Moreover, we expect you to:

• Show good communication skills as well as promoting collaboration across functional areas
• Possess high level of confidence and determination, challenging status quo or to push back when needed
• Proactively handle obstacles with a can-do demeanor
• Demonstrate leadership and influential skills, having a deep understanding of team dynamics and encouraging a strong feedback culture
• Be able to translate verbal input into concrete visual cues
• Hold a proficiency level in English, both oral & written.

Please share in English your CV, motivational letter, and portfolio. It is required to upload a portfolio (maximum upload size per file is 5 MB) or to share a link clearly highlighted in the CV.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.