Design Manager, Interaction Design Lead - LEGO® DESiGN

Job Description

At the LEGO Group, we believe in the transformative power of play. Our mission is to inspire creativity and imagination through engaging experiences that connect the digital and physical worlds.

We are in search of a passionate and experienced Interactive Play Design Manager to join our team and help shape the future of interactive play!

Core Responsibilities

In this role as a Design Manager, Interaction Design you bring interactive products to market by designing playful and viable connected experiences. You will drive projects and processes and manage the entire design life cycle from ideation to market launch while ensuring quality deliveries and adherence to milestones. Moreover, you will:

• Translate design briefs and strategic choices into understandable objectives and actions within own area

• Lead the design vision and direction, and demonstrate Interaction Design skills to guide internal and external members to achieve project goals

• Establish strong and effective partnerships with project leadership and across the product development cycle

• Identify critical risks and roadblocks, provide necessary action plans to solve obstacles hindering project success

• Take an active role to advocate Interaction Design, and seek opportunities to further teams’ understanding of interactive play, design culture, and LEGO® values

• Moreover, you’ll act as a leadership role model in a leadership playground, be brave, focused, and curious leading in a creative design environment

Play your part in our team succeeding

LEGO® Design is the home of more than 700 Designers of all trades and the nucleus of innovation for the LEGO Group. Our mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.

We are reimaging the boundaries of Interaction Design. You will join the Interaction Design Team in Billund, Denmark, who are driving and supporting interactive play innovation for novelty product experiences. As our Design Manager, you will lead with design expertise, people leadership skills, and build capabilities and talents in a caring, fun, and creative way through solid collaboration and communication with Head of Interaction Design and key partners across the organization.

In Interaction Design, we shape how play comes alive. Every decision we make has the potential to spark curiosity, creativity, and joy for kids around the world!

Do you have what it takes?

We’re looking for a design leader who brings a combination of interaction design expertise, systems thinking, and collaborative leadership, including:

• Professional experience in interaction design, UX, or related disciplines, including experience designing interactive products or experiences combining digital and physical elements.

• Strong expertise in prototyping, user-centered design, and translating creative concepts into successful interactive play experiences

• Strong systems thinking and experience developing scalable or systemic design solutions across complex organizational and product ecosystems.

• Experience leading and mentoring designers within multidisciplinary and agile product development environments.

• We imagine you could have an educational background in Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction, UX, Game Design, Computer Science, Architecture, or another relevant field.

• Moreover, you are a collaborative and strategic leader with strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Proactive in solving design challenges, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. Passionate about creating playful and emotionally engaging experiences for children and families, with attention to detail and the ability to build alignment across teams and disciplines.

Please share in English your CV, motivational letter, and portfolio. It is required to upload a portfolio (maximum upload size per file is 2 MB) or to share a link clearly highlighted in the CV.

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.