Senior Product Designer for Preschool Audience - LEGO® DESiGN + **Location** Billund, Denmark + **Job ID** 0000024719 + **Category** Creative & Design **Job Description** **Are you passionate about turning LEGO bricks into outstanding play experiences for a preschool audience? Are you energized by mentoring and transferring skill-building knowledge to your peers?** **If you thrive in a creative environment, where we succeed as a team, then this is an outstanding opportunity to grow your career within Product Design!** This is a 1-year parental cover. No relocation assistance is offered for this position \#LI-TVN1 **Core Responsibilities** Model Design Expertise: + Understand and drive the implementation of the creative vision given by the Project Leadership Team (Core Lead Team), nurturing the LEGO design DNA within the Preschool portfolio. + Build upon creative briefs and deliver results in the form of LEGO products that live up to our audience design guidelines and principles. + Design with the kids at the center, and coach others to consider building complexity, audience appeal, play functions and storytelling using our building systems. + Explore, visualize and sketch ideas that can evolve into highly appealing products to our preschool audience and their parents. + Create solutions to complex challenges in the model development process. + Enhance collaboration with colleagues across LEGO Design and work with different design teams and various internal and external partners in an effective and efficient way. + Drive compliance with processes and guidelines to ensure delivery of products that meet our internal quality and safety standards. Insights & Innovation: + Stay updated on consumer insights and trends via internal and external sources, including identifying gaps and requesting new consumer or other insights, while maintaining delivery grounded in those insights. + Influence portfolio decisions. Leadership & Mentoring: + Seek, propose & facilitate learning opportunities for building knowledge within own functional area. + Contribute to others’ development through mentoring, coaching and feedback within both franchise and reporting line teams and beyond. **Play your part in our team succeeding** LEGO® Design is the home of nearly 600 Designers of all trades and the nucleus of innovation for the LEGO Group. Our mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. As children shape their own worlds with LEGO bricks, we play our part in having a positive impact on the world they live in today and will inherit in the future. As part of the Model Design team, you will maintain a well-rounded overview of the way we develop the different parts that go into the LEGO products, like figures, decorations, and accessories. Your holistic view will ensure the detailed integration of all elements into cohesive and appealing products. **Do you have what it takes?** + Proven experience with LEGO bricks as a design medium of product design. + Ability to translate IP reference material into playful and appropriate experiences for the audience. + Ability to coach and mentor new designers and share knowledge within the team. You act as a role model for other model designers. + Ability to deliver impactful results and support delivery of other team members. + Ability to drive tasks or work streams within the franchise team. + Good feedback skills (giving & receiving). + Passionate about designing for the Pre School audience. **Portfolio Guidelines** We’d love to see how you think and build. When submitting your application, please make sure to upload your portfolio, demonstrating: + Clear photos or renders of your work, showing original suggestions of LEGO models — both physical builds and/or digital ones. + LEGO models ideally appealing to Preschool audience or young kids. + Ideally, including reflections on how you envision your models can be played with, what stories they tell, and what experiences they offer. 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. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. **Join the LEGO® team today.**