Senior Manager, People Leader – LEGO DESiGN

Job Description

Are you ready to put your focus on employee development into play to lead and inspire a dedicated team of specialists? We are looking for a Senior Manager, People Leader to join our Virtual Asset Design (VAD) Leadership team within the LEGO Design organization - a diverse, world-class team driven by creativity, collaboration, and continuous innovation!

In this dual role, you will excel in direct people leadership while ensuring that the organization operates efficiently and predictably across multiple demands and delivery streams. Bring your exceptional leadership skills into play and become part of an extraordinary design force that creates inspiring building and play experiences for children around the globe.

Core Responsibilities

As a VAD Senior Manager within the LEGO Design organization, you will hold the people leadership responsibility for a team of 3D Artists supporting their development, performance, and engagement. You will play an active role in the daily production across various customers, demands and pipelines, ensuring clarity in priorities and ways of working.

Working closely with partners across VAD and beyond, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead productive team meetings to ensure effective sharing of updates, strategies and goals, while fostering collaboration and engagement
• Responsibility for various VAD products, tools, processes and alignment with partners on current and future demand and format
• Conduct regular 1:1 conversations focused on growth, feedback and performance development
• Set and continuously evolve the direction for agile ways of working, guiding and constructively challenging Scrum Masters/Planners to strengthen execution and team effectiveness
• Ensure alignment between long-term strategic demand and short-term execution through robust capacity and planning practices
• Actively engage in multiple internal projects to collect input, define requirements, and align on priorities.
• Drive clarity and data-informed decision-making around workload, prioritization and delivery commitments
• Engage cross-functionally to translate strategic priorities into realistic and predictable plans
• Lead by example and champion diversity and inclusion, cultivating a positive, collaborative, and trusting work culture through empathy and open communication.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Virtual Assets Design is the creator of all 3D and animated digital elements. We support the LEGO Group’s digital workflow by modelling, texturing, and simplifying assets for building instructions, packaging, marketing, digital media and pipelines - including both high-fidelity rendering as well as games and other real-time experiences.

Do you have what it takes?

As a candidate, the path you've taken to contain people leadership experience of specialist may vary. You could hold a degree within Game, Engineering, Design, Business or another area, though ideally you bring experience from leading a larger team of technical specialists, preferably within 3D, VFX, gaming or similar production environments. You have proven hands-on experience with agile ways of working, including experience in shaping and improving planning setups.

Moreover, you bring:

• Experience balancing people leadership with operational planning complexity
• Bring an appetite to facilitate development of the digital pipeline by challenging solutions for systems and processes for various digital demands, taking initiative and ownership when driving solutions
• Practical experience with capacity planning and demand forecasting in a production-driven setup, including aligning longer-term demand with operational execution
• Proven experience setting direction for agile execution and planning structures, including capacity forecasting and delivery predictability
• A team-oriented approach and strong understanding of diversity and inclusion
• Strong partner management and communication skills
• Business and value chain understanding
• Preferably a technical 3D understanding and familiarity with Autodesk Maya, Adobe package, Unreal or Unity
• Advanced English language skills.

Additionally, we anticipate that you will:

• Have a clear passion for navigating multiple people-related topics simultaneously
• Demonstrate a willingness to continuously strengthen your own leadership capabilities
• Demonstrate a collaborative and structured approach to leadership across levels.

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.