Senior Manager, People Lead

Job Description

Are you ready to put your focus on employee development, leading and inspiring a dedicated team of 3D Artists? We're looking for a People Lead to join our Virtual Asset Design (VAD) Leadership team within LEGO Design - a diverse, world-class team driven by creativity collaboration, and continuous innovation.

In this dual role, you will excel in direct people leadership while also ensuring that the organization operates efficiently and successfully. Bring your exceptional leadership skills into play and become a part of a world-class design force that creates inspiring building and play experiences for children around the globe

This is a 12-month temporary parental cover, with a starting date ideally as of 1st of February 2026. No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

As a VAD Senior Manager within the LEGO Design organization, you will be leading a team of D Artists and will be part of the daily production towards various customers, demands and pipeline. Working closely with VAD planners and scrum masters, you will help drive efficient daily production and streamline agile workflows across multiple projects and priorities.

• Lead productive team meetings to ensure effective sharing of updates, strategies, and goals, while promoting teamwork and encouraging the team.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings to empower and support team members' growth through coaching, honest feedback, clear communication of goals and active listening.
• Responsibility for various VAD products, tools, processes and alignment with partners on current and future demand and format.
• Actively engage in multiple internal projects to collect input, define requirements, and align on priorities.
• Promoting and facilitating a continuous improvement culture in our team and ways of working.
• Responsibility for driving and implementing agile ways of working across all collaborators and demands.
• Lead by example and champion diversity and inclusion, cultivating a positive, collaborative and trusting work culture through empathy and open communication.

Virtual Assets Design is the basic creator of all 3D and animated digital elements. We support the LEGO Group's digital workflow by modeling, texturing and simplifying of assets for the building instructions, packaging, marketing, digital media and pipelines including both high fidelity rendering as well as games and other real-time experiences.

The ideal candidate may bring a degree within Business or Leadership and/or brings proven experience leading technical specialists. Experience with developing the environment of 3D, VFX, gaming or similar would be beneficial, though not a requirement. Using scrum and/or agile ways of working are natural to you and have been a part of your environment and methods for some years. Moreover, you:

• Bring an appetite to facilitate development of the digital pipeline by challenging solutions for systems and processes for various digital demands, taking initiative and ownership when driving solutions.
• Contribute to a culture built on teamwork, respect, and inclusivity.
• Bring strong stakeholder management, communication and change management skills.
• Bring solid business and value chain understanding.
• Might bring a technical 3D understanding and familiarity with Autodesk Maya, Adobe package, Unreal or Unity.
• Demonstrate a willingness to grow and improve your own leadership abilities
• Possess advanced English language skills.

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.

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.

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