Senior Director - Engineering

Job Description

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Are you interested in leading and growing high performing software engineering teams in the Kids & Ecosystem Technology Engineering cluster of the LEGO Group?

Bring your excellent communications skills and experience leading engineering organizations of significant scale and come join an area that engages millions of kids and families worldwide!

Core Responsibilities

• Take on direct responsibility of the Kids & Ecosystem Technology engineering cluster, encompassing large amount of product teams, people, technology, budgets and output across Denmark and external partners
• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, drive technical excellence, and partner cross-functionally to deliver impactful, scalable and highly engaged digital solutions for millions of children and families worldwide
• Shape the overall kids’ domain vision and product strategy, and ensure the execution of tech strategy and business requirements (pOKRs) in alignment with the BDLR transformation program
• Set the technical direction in collaboration with teams and lead engineers within the subdomain and ensure its adoption across all engineering teams and with key partners
• Be accountable for overall delivery for the kids' domain to meet aligned timelines and engineering quality standards, driving a sense of urgency and efficiency
• Recruit, optimize and continuously evolve subdomain setup, actively building high-performing engineering clusters with clear career paths and development opportunities
• Allocate and optimize resources (people and services) from a financial perspective according to strategic priorities, managing organizational efficiency and vendor relationships
• Proactively introduce and continuously elevate engineering practices towards best in industry, fostering a culture of innovation, quality and efficiency across platform services, cloud architecture and AI adoption

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Kids & Ecosystem Technology (KET) department delivers a broad set of digital experiences and foundational platform services engaging millions of children and families worldwide. KET provides centralized platforms including behavior tracking, UGC, and content moderation across consumer, retail, and marketing domains, and owns two key engagement channels: kids.lego.com and the LEGO Play app.

In this role you will lead and shape the engineering organization that powers the LEGO Group’s digital engagement with children. You will collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers and fellow engineering leaders to drive the BDLR (Build Direct Lasting Relationships) transformation program, delivering member and kids engagement initiatives that support sustainable growth, innovation and operational excellence.

Do you have what it takes?

• Significant documented experience in digital engineering positions with progressive leadership responsibilities
• Documented experience leading engineering organizations of significant scale (50+ people across multiple teams and geographical locations)
• Proven track record of building and developing high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies and demonstrated experience scaling agile practices across large engineering organizations
• Experience driving cross-team solution architecture from creation to implementation, including platform and multi-tenant services
• Excellent communication, leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution skills
• Solid partner management competencies with ability to engage at senior director level and above
• Travel between locations in Denmark is expected

Also nice to have is:

• Experience with child-safe digital products and compliance frameworks (COPPA, GDPR-K, age-gating, content moderation)
• Knowledge of or hands-on experience with cloud services, cloud native architecture and modern engineering toolchains
• Familiarity with continuous delivery, DevOps, observability, and domain driven design at enterprise scale
• Prior experience driving organizational transformation, merging teams, and scaling engineering cultures
• Experience productionizing AI/ML solutions to improve efficiency and enhance user experience
• Background in consumer-facing digital products with high engagement metrics and improvements guided by user feedback

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.

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