Senior Art Director

3 weeks ago


Billund, Denmark LEGO Gruppe Full time

Job Description

Would you like to be part of an outstanding creative team?

Bring your outstanding creative and visual design expertise to help the LEGO Group to inspire and develop the builder of tomorrow

Core Responsibilities

In the role as Senior Art Director, your main responsibilities are:

  • With guidance, creative sparring, and direction setting to help activate our LEGO products and their play experience into relevant and engaging packaging and product communication - from dynamic storytelling, composition, and visual expression.
  • To creatively lead multiple franchise projects and succeed through partners and the internal graphic design team.
  • To ensure relevant communication with a red thread across the product assortment within a given LEGO franchise.
  • Cocreate, align, and collaborate across a heavy internal stakeholder and external partner landscape.
  • Being a graphic design & creative mentor. Help set creative art direction, raise the bar, evaluate, and be a natural go-to person for sparring, mentorship, and decisions.
  • To be a proactive contributor in impacting and driving broader cross-functional business agendas and initiatives.

Please ensure to share your portfolio on a link or PDF in the application in order to be considered when screening.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Graphic Art team is responsible for the visual and creative execution of all LEGO packaging communication and hereby the majority of all static product assets for other touchpoints – digital as printed. A dedicated team of specialists within graphic design, art direction, photography, computer-generated imagery (CGI), and color retouch.

This role is part of our core team as a functional and creative specialist – contributing with overall business agenda as well as direction, mentorship, and sparring towards teams, partners, and collaborators.

With your strong passion for creative work, graphic experience, and through your mentorship and art direction, you help our creative teams and partners to bring our LEGO products to life with engaging creative and visual product communication and storytelling - targeting both consumers and shoppers.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Creative agency background as a minimum Art Director or Graphic Designer with validated skills within Adobe applications.
  • Proven experience in a creative agency with shown skills within creative storytelling and visual expression.
  • Excellent communicator – verbally, creatively, and visually.
  • Experience with packaging execution and product communication.
  • Someone who is always ready to help and has a positive and inspiring behavior, actively encouraging teamwork, mentoring, and providing mentorship.
  • Collaborative and well-rounded mentality and curious working with other creatives both upstream and downstream.
  • Flexible and able to work within deadlines in a constantly evolving environment.
  • Able to travel abroad towards partners for onsite training and guidance.
  • Able to work in our Best of Both scheme, which is 2 days at home and 3 days in the office.
  • Digital eComm shopper understanding and capabilities will be a big plus.
  • Determined – able to drive projects, responsibilities, and business agenda.
  • Potentially experience with 3D software – preferably Maya.
  • Ensure we continuously develop, follow trends, and keep raising the visual and creative output.

NOTE: No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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. 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.

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