Job Description
Are you a highly strategic program leader ready to define the future of digital play? Join the LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab and contribute to inventing groundbreaking new play opportunities and never-seen-before creative experiences by ensuring the flawless delivery of our most complex software programs. This role is critical to scaling our technology execution capabilities across the product portfolio.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Program & Process Leadership
- Ensure world-class execution today: focus on executing our current software programs on time and in world-class quality.
- Implement and govern the standardized agile software methodology, tools, and processes across all software-focused programs, integrating them with existing delivery pipelines.
- Drive collective agreement among multifunctional leadership teams, balancing the interests between engineering, product, and manufacturing, and ensuring alignment across critical stakeholders.
- Establish collective KPIs and metrics to measure the health, velocity, and predictability of software programs, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence transformation initiatives.
- Oversee the portfolio of software programs to ensure alignment with strategic business goals, managing inter-dependencies and resource allocation across multiple projects.
Delivery Oversight & Execution
- Lead the overall delivery of complex, highly coupled technology systems programs, ensuring they deliver within the agreed frames of time, cost, quality, and scale.
People Leadership & Capability Scaling
- Line manage, mentor, and coach a team of Software Program Managers, fostering a culture of high performance, accountability, and strong technical delivery.
- Fulfill comprehensive people leadership responsibilities, including workforce planning, recruitment, performance and reward management, coaching, mentoring, and conflict resolution.
- Act as a subject-matter expert and sparring partner for the team on advanced program management practices.
What We Are Looking For
- Must have an in-depth understanding of Agile software development, especially for embedded devices, and expertise in implementing related methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) within a complex, hardware-integrated environment.
- Significant hands-on technical project and program management experience in consumer electronics, robotics/mechatronics, or complex technology systems.
- Proven experience in people leadership including hiring, onboarding, performance and reward management, coaching and mentoring.
- Deep expertise in delivering software applications and digital user experiences at scale.
- Technically savvy and able to have educated discussions with the team about cost, quality, and scaling. Preferably also in interface areas outside the software area.
- Strong strategic and holistic thinker with attention to detail.
- A can-do attitude, entrepreneurial spirit with passion for new technologies and to drive innovation.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel as necessary (approximately 20-30 days per year).
Benefits
- Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances – All colleagues are covered by life and disability insurance.
- 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 – You will qualify for a generous colleague discount from day 1.
- Bonus – When goals are reached and if eligible, you will be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
- Workplace – You will be assigned a primary workplace location. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office.
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 belongs.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (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.
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Are you a highly strategic program leader ready to define the future of digital play? Join the LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab and contribute to inventing groundbreaking new play opportunities and never-seen-before creative experiences by ensuring the flawless delivery of our most complex software programs. This role is critical to scaling our technology execution capabilities across the product portfolio.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Program & Process Leadership
- Ensure world-class execution today: focus on executing our current software programs on time and in world-class quality.
- Implement and govern the standardized agile software methodology, tools, and processes across all software-focused programs, integrating them with existing delivery pipelines.
- Drive collective agreement among multifunctional leadership teams, balancing the interests between engineering, product, and manufacturing, and ensuring alignment across critical stakeholders.
- Establish collective KPIs and metrics to measure the health, velocity, and predictability of software programs, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence transformation initiatives.
- Oversee the portfolio of software programs to ensure alignment with strategic business goals, managing inter-dependencies and resource allocation across multiple projects.
Delivery Oversight & Execution
- Lead the overall delivery of complex, highly coupled technology systems programs, ensuring they deliver within the agreed frames of time, cost, quality, and scale.
People Leadership & Capability Scaling
- Line manage, mentor, and coach a team of Software Program Managers, fostering a culture of high performance, accountability, and strong technical delivery.
- Fulfill comprehensive people leadership responsibilities, including workforce planning, recruitment, performance and reward management, coaching, mentoring, and conflict resolution.
- Act as a subject-matter expert and sparring partner for the team on advanced program management practices.
What We Are Looking For
- Must have an in-depth understanding of Agile software development, especially for embedded devices, and expertise in implementing related methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) within a complex, hardware-integrated environment.
- Significant hands-on technical project and program management experience in consumer electronics, robotics/mechatronics, or complex technology systems.
- Proven experience in people leadership including hiring, onboarding, performance and reward management, coaching and mentoring.
- Deep expertise in delivering software applications and digital user experiences at scale.
- Technically savvy and able to have educated discussions with the team about cost, quality, and scaling. Preferably also in interface areas outside the software area.
- Strong strategic and holistic thinker with attention to detail.
- A can-do attitude, entrepreneurial spirit with passion for new technologies and to drive innovation.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel as necessary (approximately 20-30 days per year).
Benefits
- Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances – All colleagues are covered by life and disability insurance.
- 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 – You will qualify for a generous colleague discount from day 1.
- Bonus – When goals are reached and if eligible, you will be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
- Workplace – You will be assigned a primary workplace location. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office.
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 belongs.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (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.
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