Director of Production

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.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Director of Production who can lead the production team across multiple products and workstreams. This is a leadership role as much as a production one. You will be responsible for how production works across the team— setting the standards, building the team, and ensuring that everything we ship reflects the ambition of what we are trying to create. You will work closely with creative, technical, product and strategic leadership, and you will be the person who makes sure that ambitious ideas become real, high-quality products — on time and at scale. If you are a production leader who can operate at the strategic level while staying close enough to the work to spot problems early, and who knows how to build and inspire a production team around a shared mission, this is your role.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Leading the production strategy for a major project within LEGO Digital Play; setting the standards, frameworks, and ways of working that govern how the teams deliver.
• Leads and develops a multi-disciplinary production team — creating a culture of accountability, craft, and continuous improvement.
• Partners with senior leadership across creative, engineering, and commercial functions to align production planning with organisational priorities and growth.
• Defines and evolves the production operating model as the team and product portfolio scale.

Delivery at Scale

• Accountable for delivery across assigned product(s) and workstreams simultaneously, ensuring milestone commitments are met without compromising quality.
• Establishes and maintains portfolio-level roadmaps, resource plans, and milestone frameworks that give leadership clear visibility of progress and risk across the shared goals.
• Identifies and resolves cross-product dependencies, risks, and blockers — escalating to executive leadership where strategic decisions are required.
• Ensures production standards and tooling are consistently applied across teams, while retaining the flexibility to meet the specific needs of different workstreams.

Organisational Influence

• Acts as the senior production voice in cross-functional and executive forums, translating delivery status and risks into clear business-facing communication, using diplomacy and organisational awareness to successfully influence the wider business.
• Drives resourcing strategy across the production team, working with HR and leadership to plan for growth, manage capacity, and develop internal talent.
• Builds the onboarding and development frameworks that will shape the next generation of production talent at LEGO Digital Play, whilst aligning ways of working with other teams across the organisation.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in game production, with substantial time at senior and director level across multiple shipped titles in a production role and live service experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading production across a complex product with many workstreams at scale.
• Proven track record building and leading high-performing production teams, including giving clear ownership and accountability, coaching and providing suitable training, supporting their ambitions through personal development and giving clear and tangible feedback to create highly effective producers.
• Deep expertise establishing production processes, tooling, and standards from the ground up in early‑stage or high-growth environments.
• Strong command of portfolio‑level planning—resource allocation, milestone management, risk frameworks, and cross-team dependency mapping.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including regular engagement with executive and C‑suite leadership.
• Ability to operate fluidly between strategic leadership and hands‑on production oversight as the situation demands.
• Experience working across platforms, genres, or product types— with a track record of adapting delivery models to suit different contexts.
• Self‑directed— able to operate effectively with limited oversight in a fast‑moving technical and creative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in UGC.
• Experience within a large consumer brand or entertainment company navigating complex internal and external partner relationships.
• Exposure to children's media, edtech, or family‑facing digital products.

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