Company Overview
LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways. Our mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been. We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans of LEGO—and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
We are at the earliest phases of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand. Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
We are looking for a Game Design Director to help shape and lead it.
Role Overview
This is a role with genuine creative authority and the scope to match. You will define the core experience, setting the vision and making critical decisions on a complex, ambitious product. You will also build and lead the design team that makes it real, hiring great people, setting the bar, and creating the conditions for them to do their best work.
The right person thinks in systems, leads with clarity, and is energised by the idea of solving unique problems and adventuring into the unknown. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hearfrom you.
Key Responsibilities
- Defines, champions, and owns the design vision - from big ideas to small details
- Focuses the team on rapid prototyping to find the fun quickly, and makes bold decisions to move work forward
- Builds and leads the design team - hiring, mentoring, and coaching designers to do their best work
- Develops and maintains design documentation and frameworks that give the team and partners a shared foundation
- Collaborates with leads across engineering, product, and art to align design with technical and product reality
- Represents design clearly and confidently across the organisation, from working sessions to senior stakeholder reviews