Director, Product Innovation, LEGO Education

Job Description

Are you interested in developing the future of playful learning?

Bring your expertise in driving product innovation and product strategy to help shape the future of products and platforms for LEGO Education!
 

Core Responsibilities

• Lead exploration on key strategic topics which apply across LEGO Education’s learning product portfolios.

• Generate and evaluate product and licensing partnership opportunities and as aligned with the Head of Product Experience, Head of Product Marketing, and Heads of Product.

• Contribute as a member of LEGO Education’s Product Experience (PX) leadership team to ensure alignment to product strategy and strong ways-of-working across matrix organization.

• Track emerging trends in the education and educational technology industry.

• Conduct initial industry and market research to establish foundational insights for play themes (e.g., animals, space, vehicles, art/crafts) and other product opportunities. This process is continuous, always looking 3–5 years out.

• Collaborate closely with the Director of Design Innovation to create a culture of innovation, experimentation, and prototyping.
   

Play your part in our team succeeding

Starting with the initial release of LEGO MINDSTORMS in 1998, LEGO Education has been at the forefront of building experiences that merge digital and physical play. Today, we have built on this history with products like LEGO Education SPIKE Prime and LEGO Education SPIKE Essential. Creating these new types of learning and play opportunities for children requires a highly innovative, collaborative, and iterative mentality and approach. We are seeking an experienced and passionate product innovation strategist to join our team with an extensive background in the learning space to enable the next generation of LEGO Education’s products and services.
 

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate has a background within design, engineering, or marketing/business coupled with extensive work experience within product development. You bring strategic leadership and/or consulting experience, combined with proven experience with strategy development and advising senior partners and executives. As a person, you have outstanding communication and collaboration skills. Experience developing learning and/or play experiences for children (international experience outside of the US is a plus).

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. For all candidates, 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.