the LEGO Group
Senior Play Product Manager - Connected Products
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Job Description
Are you a visionary product manager equipped to shape the play of the future?
We are looking for an experienced product manager whose passion is to help children be creative and learn through play. This product manager would be responsible for defining our next-generation, technology-enabled play experiences as well as partnering with our technology domain teams to deliver world-class, high-quality products that create fun and memorable play moments for children and adults alike.
What you’ll be doing
User Champion
- You are the voice of the user inside the team. You will:
- Immerse yourself in user insights and trends to develop compelling opportunities in your product area, that deliver value to our users and the business.
- Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for your product area and gain buy-in throughout the organization.
- Define and analyse metrics that inform the success of the product.
- Understand the financials involved with product development to ensure product decisions are grounded in user and business value.
Problem Solver
- Keen to make things better and up for the challenge of tackling unknowns. You:
- Are curious and questioning - not afraid to ask questions to ensure we identify root causes, so that we design the right solutions.
- Always sees the bigger picture of the product, whilst maintaining focus on the right priorities and the right time.
- Navigates complex requirements and partners with the team to reach considered decisions throughout the product development cycle.
Stakeholder Manager
- Working with others seamlessly, hearing their needs, whilst being heard. You:
- Communicate user needs, product strategy, and roadmaps to a variety of audiences.
- Share the knowledge by translating the complex into easy-to-understand concepts.
- Craft inspirational demos that convey the product vision and user benefits, whilst keeping the play at the center.
Delivery
- Define, build, launch, and grow exceptional products.
- Integrate play value, usability studies, research, and market analysis into technical product requirements to deliver playful products.
- Drive outstanding outcomes at every stage of the cycle – ensuring what gets built is the right thing for our users, done well, and continuously delights our users.
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What we are looking for
- Significant hands-on product management experience from connected products, consumer electronics, robotics, or a closely related field, with at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years working on immersive physical-digital experiences plus two or more of the following connected product disciplines: firmware, wireless connectivity (BLE, WiFi, or equivalent), mobile applications, or cloud/backend services.
- Deep user empathy backed by insight and data; able to articulate user needs and root causes clearly, going beyond surface-level feedback to understand the underlying problems, wants, and desires.
- Demonstrable experience taking a product from discovery through to launch and beyond, including owning post-launch iteration.
- Proven ability to build and communicate a prioritized, outcome-oriented product roadmap; makes tradeoffs explicit and decisions defensible.
- Experience running structured discovery in new disruptive products in the 0 – 1 space and applying clear prioritization frameworks.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to frame product decisions in terms of business impact.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives and engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- A bias toward action, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
- Passion for interactive experiences and a strong understanding of user-centred design principles.
- Applies agile and lean delivery principles effectively across the full product development cycle.
- Experience with modern product development tools (JIRA, Confluence, JAMA).
- Desire to push the bounds of LEGO play into new and uncharted play experiences.
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.
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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.
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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