Product Owner

Job Description

Are you excited about the future of interactive and creative play?

Bring your experience and infectious passion to drive teams and unite designers, engineers, and business collaborators behind one vision: to create products which push the boundaries of what toys can do

With a playful spirit and history of building technology enabled products, you will lead a Product Team creating interactive, creative toys for future kids to fall in love with. This is a unique chance to join The LEGO Group to make highly innovative toys, following in the footsteps of LEGO Super Mario.

Core Responsibilities

The Product Owner will be responsible for integrating interactive Play into our portfolio of products, converting exciting opportunities into products kids will play with for years. As the advocate for kids’ and parents’ needs, you will balance their play and development to create long-lasting value for both families and our company. You will use your experience in navigating between the functional areas of product design, business, engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations to achieve outstanding commercial objectives with products that millions of kids love

Being curious about how kids play, you are extraordinary at identifying user needs, and excited to translate these needs into viable products. You know how to ensure the products your team builds are highly appealing and relevant for both kids and parents.

The work location is Billund, and relocation assistance is not offered.

In this role, you will:

• Always be a champion of the kids - guiding the team to observe kids to create fun, surprising, and meaningful play experiences which benefit kids as they learn through play.
• Be a natural collaborator - quickly and deeply build an understanding of the DNA of existing Product lines, their business and creative ambitions, and how interactivity can play a significant part in delivering these.
• Hold the Interactive Vision - using the vision at every opportunity to guide the team, you know what phenomenal looks like and uphold the highest quality standards, making sophisticated trade-off decisions to bring that vision into reality.
• Empower and stimulate your team to create quick prototypes to test and validate ideas as early as possible - preferring progress over perfection. Quickly adjusting the direction and not afraid to fail, you kill your own ideas when your experiments show that is the right course of action.
• Integrate and trade-off – listening to a wide variety of specialist functions, you navigate between fields, helping them see the big picture and uniting them to one common cause. Where vital, you constructively deal with disagreement, turning creative tension into energy which drives Product Development forward with increased momentum.
• Develop effectively using data and distil it to its essence, find patterns to forecast forwards and inspire development of tomorrow - not the past
• While bringing into play a strong conceptual mind, you challenge assumptions in a proactive and constructive manner. You dare to ask questions and voice the unpopular opinion if it is for the good of the result - all while being respectful to your co-workers.

Play your part in our team succeeding

We are a diverse group who build the play experiences for the future. We work under an agile project management framework to discover new ways to play by converting unmet needs, technology trends, and LEGO values into consumer value. We have a long and proud heritage of bringing interactive toys to market and believe that there is an even deeper seam to be mined for kids who are attracted to diverse types of play.

Building on the successful collaboration with Nintendo which brought you LEGO Super Mario, we are exploring interactivity more broadly. The Product Owner will help us discover more play value.

Do you have what it takes?

As we look for the right match, professional experience designing and leading cross-functional teams is more important than specific qualifications. We imagine that the right candidate has:

• Shipped a minimum of one digital or physical consumer product in the role of Product Owner. You have experience working in a fast-paced agile environment, creating and prioritizing user stories and EPICS being responsible for the mid-long term product roadmaps.
• Experience as an individual contributor in several consumer products and know what life on the front-line feels like.
• Proven trained ability to use a deep understanding of the Product Vision to drive a team, set and uphold quality standards and make the complex trade-off decisions which make that vision a reality.
• Experience analysing and prioritising tasks based on user needs, through direct observation, product testing, collecting and analysing telemetry data and feedback.
• Skills visualising project progress to motivate the development team and increase transparency to user groups.
• Experience managing budgets and communicating status and risk to senior partners.
• Decision making over outsourcing strategy, especially when to build or buy external solutions is an advantage.

#LI-EH1

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 (e.g., 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.