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Digital Product Design Competency Lead (FTC Parental cover)

the LEGO Group

📍Billund, Southern Denmark
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Posted on: February 06, 2026

Job Description

The Digital Product Design Competency Leader is a role entailing people leadership responsibilities for a team of digital product designers, including coaching, driving personal development, and staffing.

This is leadership role within the digital product design organization working with the Head of Digital Product Design for Manufacturing and Supply Chain.

This is a 12-month Parental cover position (Fixed Term Contract)

*Please note that no relocation support is offered for this position*

Core Responsibilities

  • People leader of a team (5+ Designers) (Designers with various capabilities allocated to different projects)

  • Taking a leading role in optimizing our designers ways of working

  • Taking a leading role in optimizing resource management while respecting our people promise, good collaboration and portfolio priorities

  • Acting as a leadership role model in the leadership playground, being brave, focused, and curious, leading in a creative design environment

Play your part in our team succeeding

In this role you will bring your phenomenal people leadership skills and your experience within capacity and resource management into play and be part of a world class Design force that reaches The LEGO Group employees around the world.

The ideal candidate holds a degree in a design-related field (Product/Graphic/Fashion/Toys), Fine Arts, Engineering, or similar. You can come from a variety of educational backgrounds, but most importantly, your passion for leading and developing people, combined with experience in digital design, makes you a great leader.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Have a clear passion for navigating across multiple people-related topics simultaneously

  • Be self-reflective and willing to develop your own people leadership skills

  • Understand how to give and receive feedback

  • Experience running design critiques

  • Demonstrable experience in leading 4+ people

  • Demonstrate a collaborative approach and efficiency in management at all levels

  • Seek and provide constructive feedback

  • Show the ability to stay calm and focused in stressful situations

Advanced English both written and verbal would be ideal as we are an internationally gathered team.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

"Bring your tech talent and people passion into play and become part of a big IT community and get the chance to spar with other specialists that share interest!"

#LI-JB1

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.

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