Senior Model Designer - LEGO Licensing and Extended Line

Job Description
Are you thrilled to bring LEGO® products to life and reconnect with your inner child to see your final work in the hands of the consumers worldwide?

We are looking for a Senior Model Designer to work with a wide variety of product lines to deliver unique build experiences to the consumers. If you are a passionate toy designer, experienced with brick builds, we eagerly welcome your application!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Build upon design briefs and deliver results in the form of LEGO products that meet the expectations in terms of age complexity, audience appeal, play functions and storytelling using our LEGO building system.
• Master the knowledge of and lead the different tasks, responsibilities and processes that are part of the LEGO model development.
• Mentor and teach the processes and tools for LEGO model development.
• Explore, visualize and sketch ideas that can realistically become a product if approved. Facilitate ideation within the team.
• Promote collaboration with colleagues. Work with different design fields and various internal and external partners.
• Role model and contribute to a positive team culture.

Play your part in our team succeeding
Licensing and Extended Line helps build new touch points for the LEGO® ecosystem through licensed consumer products, branded collaborations, publishing as well as unique brick products exclusive to LEGO Retail. The creative team is a diverse, multidisciplinary group who works closely with the internal design organization as well as external partners. Our products and experiences strive to deepen LEGO fandom as well as help extend the LEGO Play experiences to new products and spaces.

This role as a Senior Model Designer will focus on designing and developing new products for the LEGO Extended Line. Using the LEGO Building Platforms, the Senior Model Designer sketches, conceptualises and designs for manufacture products. The role will participate in the concept development, design, test, modification, and other relevant areas of LEGO model development.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience with LEGO model build.
• Experience with conceptualizing toys within a given framework.
• Strong creative skills, including experience with industrial product design, concept- or toy design.
• Ability to complete and mentor on all the model design processes and model development tasks, including setting the creative direction.
• Strong communication, storytelling and visualization skills.
• Flexibility and willingness to work in groups or in close networks and with people from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Please share in English your CV, motivational letter, and portfolio. It is required to upload a portfolio showcasing your LEGO brick builds (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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000018907
• Category
  Creative & Design