Digital Product Design Competency Lead

Job Description
The Digital Product Design Competency Leader is a role entailing people leadership responsibilities for a team of digital product designers, including coaching, driving personal development, and staffing. This is a leadership role within the digital product design organization reporting to the Head of Digital Product Design for Manufacturing and Supply Chain.

Core Responsibilities
In this role, you will bring your phenomenal people leadership skills and your experience within capacity and resource management into play and be part of an elite Design force that reaches The LEGO Group employees around the world. You will be:

• People leader of a team (5+ Designers) (Designers with various capabilities allocated to different projects).
• Taking a leading role in optimizing our designers' ways of working.
• Taking a leading role in optimizing resource management while respecting our people's promise, good collaboration, and portfolio priorities.
• Acting as a leadership role model in the leadership playground, being brave, focused, and curious, leading in a creative design environment.

Play your part in our team succeeding
You will join our omni channel and manufacturing area and lead the team to the different product teams they support. The team supports product teams connecting to areas like packaging, molding, and manufacturing. You will be a part of a leadership team where you can share and gain information.

Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate holds a degree in a design-related field (Product/Graphic/Fashion/Toys), Fine Arts, Engineering, or similar. You can come from various educational backgrounds, but most importantly, your passion for leading and developing people, combined with experience in digital design, makes you a phenomenal leader. Moreover, we expect you to:

• Have a clear passion for navigating across multiple people-related topics simultaneously.
• Be self-reflective and willing to develop your own people leadership skills.
• Understand how to give and receive feedback.
• Experience running design critiques.
• 2+ years experience managing 4+ people.
• Demonstrate a collaborative approach and efficiency in management at all levels.
• Seek and provide constructive feedback.
• Show the ability to stay calm and focused in stressful situations.
• Hold proficiency level in English (spoken & written).

What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• 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.
• Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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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Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000016993
• Category
  IT, Telecom & Internet