Product Director, Digital Ecosystem Engagement

Job Description

Would you like to bring your digital product leadership experience into play and help us create fantastic engagement products - servicing millions of users across the LEGO® branded ecosystem?

Take this opportunity and join us as our new leader for a team of motivated and highly experienced Product Managers looking after our digital ecosystem engagement portfolio.

Core Responsibilities

This team is a key part of our transformation into a product-led organization. Therefore, we’re looking to hire an experienced product management leader to

• Lead a team of experienced Product Managers, support their development, manage performance, and create the right culture to empower them and provide them with psychological safety to fail and learn

• Coach product managers, so they can confidently lead product teams through the discovery, development, and launch of innovative products and features that provide real value to kids

• Synthesise business strategy, customer needs, market analysis to develop product vision and strategy that inspires stakeholders, improves the product portfolio and delight end users

• Be a driving force in our digital transformation - align with key stakeholders on ways of working and roles and responsibilities. Build consensus on strategies and priorities

• Play an active part in our product leadership team to build the overall product organization, including capability building, removing roadblocks and ensure we have fun!

• Above all, deliver strong and compelling market-leading products that take advantage of the unique LEGO® brand, product range and deep user focus.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This role will sit in our well-established Product organization in our outstanding Digital Consumer Engagement department, whose responsibility covers a wide variety of digital products across our kids and adult experiences. The products in your portfolio would cover LEGO® Account, data tracking services, UGC moderation and other platform services.

You will be working closely with the rest of the product areas, experiences and tools to engage with new and existing users to power their love for the LEGO® brand. Some of the products in our digital ecosystem are LEGO.com, the LEGO® Life app, the LEGO® Building Instructions app, LEGO® Ideas and the LEGO® Life Magazine.

The Product Director reports to the Head of Product within the product organization, making sure that product and portfolio strategy reflect the strategy and needs of the kids audience. As a hands-on visionary leader, you find the balance between rolling your sleeves up to work with your teams and looking at the bigger picture to execute growth and development, always driven by data and end-user experience.

Do you have what it takes?

Experience

• Experience with digital products for end users as well as platform products

• Demonstrable experience as a leader within Product where you have directly led teams through product discovery, launch and ongoing performance improvement

• Proven ability in building and leading high performing product teams, inspiring and empowering them to work towards common goals

• Experience in transformational work, including defining and improving ways of working between your team and stakeholders

• Experience with AI is a plus

Key functional skills

• A great communicator with the ability to clearly articulate the problem and the proposed solution

• A strong networker with great partner management skills

• Strong collaboration skills with other functions such as tech, design and business

• An enthusiastic self-starter who can manage activities autonomously, with the ability to toggle between attending to detail and steering company vision

• Technically curious, with a good understanding of software development practices and web/mobile technologies

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.