Senior Model Designer, Preschool - LEGO® DESiGN

Job Description

Just imagine shaping meaningful LEGO® play experiences that support creativity, learning and development during some of the most formative years of a child’s life. Then make it real.

As a Senior Model Designer in Preschool, you’ll combine deep audience understanding, creative thinking and advanced model design to create joyful, intuitive and age-appropriate LEGO play experiences for children aged 1½ to 5 years. Your influence will extend beyond the products you own, helping strengthen design quality, team capability and collaboration across the Preschool portfolio.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Within Model Design Preschool, we are driven by a shared passion for young children and Learning through Play. Together, we explore concepts, build prototypes, share feedback and learn through doing, creating a caring, fun and playful environment where curiosity, ambition and different perspectives help shape better products.

In Preschool we bring out playful product experiences across the LEGO DUPLO platform and the LEGO System platform and in combination with a deep audience understanding together with strong model design craft we create engaging play opportunities for children aged 1½ to 5 years.

You’ll collaborate closely with model designers, creative leaders and colleagues across element design, graphic design, concept design, marketing and partner functions to help deliver a strong and relevant Preschool portfolio.

Core Responsibilities

• Translate deep Preschool audience understanding, consumer insights, creative briefs and portfolio objectives into joyful and age-appropriate LEGO play experiences.

• Create high-quality models by applying strong design-for-play capabilities.

• Work flexibly across the LEGO DUPLO platform and the LEGO System platform, contributing your expertise while continuing to build your cross-platform capabilities.

• Partner proactively with designers, creative leaders, IP partners and other specialist functions to strengthen product quality and identify opportunities across the wider portfolio.

• Guide and support fellow designers through constructive feedback, mentoring and knowledge sharing, helping strengthen the capabilities across the Preschool design community.

• Contribute to evolving design methods and ways of working that support creativity, collaboration and Learning through Play.

Do you have what it takes?

• Experience creating strong product portfolios, supported by examples that demonstrate high-quality model design and meaningful play experiences.

• A strong understanding of young children, their developmental needs and how thoughtful design can support creativity, learning and play.

• Strong design-for-play capabilities.

• Comfortable balancing creative vision, audience understanding and technical design considerations throughout product development.

• Strong design thinking, proactive problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.

• Experience collaborating across disciplines and contributing constructively with internal colleagues, external partners or IP partners.

• Skilled at offering constructive feedback, sharing knowledge and helping others strengthen their design craft.

• Experience with organic sculpting, functions, building from reference or rebuildable volumes would be an advantage.

Additional details on this position

Our hybrid way of working combines focused creative time with regular in-person collaboration. You’ll work closely with model designers, associate leads, creative leaders and colleagues across element design, graphic design, concept design, marketing and IP functions.

The position offers the opportunity to contribute across the Preschool Creative Group while acting as a trusted sparring partner whose influence extends beyond individual products. You’ll help strengthen the way the team designs young children and support the continued development of a compelling Preschool portfolio.

To apply:

Please share in English your CV and portfolio or other relevant works, projects, etc. (maximum upload size per file is 5 MB). If files are larger than 5 MB, please provide a link in your CV.

If your portfolio contains products that have not yet been released, please do not upload it to Workday. Instead, upload your portfolio to OneDrive and share the link directly with the Hiring Manager.

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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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.