Senior Element Designer – LEGO DESiGN

Job Description

Looking for an opportunity to bring your concept and 3D design skills to the table and help the LEGO Group deliver innovative designs into Novelty Projects?

In the LEGO® system, everything starts with a single brick. Become one of our key design talents bringing your outstanding concept and 3D design skills to design the new bricks of our beloved LEGO System.

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Core Responsibilities

• Drive the Element Design from concept sketching to final design for manufacturing
• Work closely with Engineering and Model Design to deliver LEGO parts ready for production
• Be a role model of proactivity, collaboration, thought leadership in design practice and execution excellence for colleagues, piers and partners
• Drive partner collaboration to succeed together in complex design, engineering and manufacturing challenges
• Focus on innovation, LEGO system-in-play and production demands
• Share knowledge and experiences to colleagues and piers, and turn learning into continuous improvement
• Contribute proactively to the mapping and evolution of the LEGO Design DNA
• Optimize and maintain internal processes.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Our LEGO Design Organization consists of a dynamic, creative, and collaborative culture. No two projects are the same, and they all require different needs and expertise.

Element Design is a key department in the development of new LEGO bricks (building bricks, animals, wigs,…), playing a pivotal role in the intersection of design for aesthetics, design for play and design for manufacturing. Here, success is always a team sport, bridging the projects shaping our different play experiences with our outstanding engineering and manufacturing teams.

This department is delivering tangible innovation in the form of new elements, and we are responsible for designing more than 350 new LEGO® bricks for our portfolio each year!

Do you have what it takes?

• Fine Arts/ Design/ Engineering/Industrial Design or equivalent educations
• Expert 3D software skills in one or more of the following softwares: Z-brush/freeform/Rhino/NX…
• Hand sketching, physical hand modelling is a plus
• Proven track of design experience with product design and experience with leading design processes, ideally more than a handful of years' experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Proficient understanding of Injection Molding processes
• Good analytic and system thinking skills
• Proven experience with collaboration across functional areas
• Good at documenting progress and planning own time

It is an advantage if you bring an understanding of play from a child’s perspective.

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.

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.