Engineering Director - LEGO Builder

Job Description

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Are you a seasoned engineering leader looking for exciting challenges? Are you motivated by working with a high impact digital consumer product with the mission to actively inspire and engage with millions of kids and grown-ups across the world? Then come join the LEGO Builder team.

Core Responsibilities

• Take part in shaping the LEGO Builder vision, product strategy and ensure the execution of tech strategy and business requirements.
• Set the technical direction in collaboration with the teams and lead engineers within the LEGO Builder area and ensure its adoption in the product teams and with key partners.
• Participate in a multi-functional leadership team to drive delivery and execution in your area in alignment with product and design to ensure everyone’s success through your product teams
• Ensure the design and implementation of coherent and robust architecture that aligns to company direction and principles
• Act in the role of People leader focusing on people development, motivation and satisfaction
• Continuously formulate and communicate the technical direction within the area and tie it to people development and training
• Participate in Creator & AFOL Technology Leadership Team to foster an engineering culture with focus on efficiency, quality and innovation.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Creator &  AFOL Technology department is responsible for delivering a broad set of experiences and tools supporting both our internal product design processes as well as our consumer-facing experiences for kids and adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs).

As director of engineering in LEGO Builder, you will lead and grow high-performing product teams who develop and operate the LEGO Builder app (16m+ yearly active users), drive technical excellence and partner cross-functionally with product, design, analytics, marketing & LEGO Building Experience to deliver joyful, safe and high-quality solutions.

Do you have what it takes

• 8+ years of documented experience from a digital engineering position
• 3+ years of documented experience working as people or team leader in the digital space
• Understanding of agile methodologies and experience working with or on agile development teams
• Experience driving cross team solution architecture from creation to implementation
• Superb communication, leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution skills
• Solid partner and stakeholder management competencies

Furthermore, it would be useful if you brought:

• Delivery focused approach that value efficient and agile product implementation over process heavy project execution
• Experience in mobile app development and general engineering practices e.g. React native, app platform, 3D, gaming, testing & observability, mobile architecture etc.
• Not foreign to concepts like continuous delivery, DevOps, serverless architecture and domain driven design
• Prior experience working with software product development as a product owner, tech lead or similar

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.