Design Engineer Manager, Element Coach - LEGO DESiGN

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Life & disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund invites a Design Engineer Manager, Element Coach, to help people, ideas and product development come together to create high-quality LEGO bricks that inspire play. You’ll coach teams, guide governance, and strengthen the LEGO Building System across DUPLO, LEGO and Technic while aligning with sustainability initiatives.

You’ll join System & Material Governance to champion the building system, govern platform and system architecture, and maintain foundations for the

Qualifications

• Solid experience in Mechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Industrial Design or related disciplines with product development background.
• Guided complex product-development initiatives from ideation to implementation with governance.
• Partnered with cross-functional Design and Engineering teams to enable successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Coach product development teams to apply governance, quality, and development standards.
• Strengthen governance and alignment between Design, Engineering and Operations.
• Support Design for Manufacturing and ensure consistency of building-system requirements.
• Foster sustainable ways of working and influence future LEGO system development.

Skills

Design engineering

Coaching

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Product development

Job description

About the role

Just imagine helping talented teams bring innovative LEGO® bricks to life while strengthening the LEGO Building System for future generations of builders. Then make it real. As our Design Engineer Manager, Element Coach, you'll help people, ideas and product development come together to create high-quality LEGO® bricks that inspire great play experiences. Through coaching, partnership and technical guidance, you'll support teams in making informed decisions while helping maintain the quality, compatibility and play value that make the LEGO Building System unique. You'll join System & Material Governance, where the focus is on championing the LEGO building system across DUPLO, LEGO and Technic, governing platform and system architecture, and maintaining the foundations that support the System-in-Play philosophy. You'll work at the intersection of product development and Operations, strengthening Design for Manufacturing while supporting sustainability initiatives across both areas.

Required Qualifications

• Solid experience in Mechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related discipline, combined with experience in product development, such as Coaching, Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, or Model Design.
• Guided complex product-development initiatives from early ideation through implementation, helping teams establish standards, guidelines, governance frameworks, and ways of working.
• Partnered with and coached cross-functional teams across Design and Engineering, helping build alignment, strengthen standards and enable successful outcomes.
• Applied quantitative analysis, mathematics, data analytics, and systems thinking to evaluate product-development decisions, governance outcomes, and product integrity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Improved governance processes, development frameworks, or operating models to increase efficiency and consistency across product-development projects.
• Delivered process improvements that balanced business needs, product integrity, and end-user experience.
• Coached cross-functional product-development teams to apply governance, quality, and development standards consistently across multiple initiatives.

What you’ll build

• Stronger governance across product development activities.
• Greater alignment between product development and Operations.
• Practical approaches to Design for Manufacturing.
• Consistent application of building-system requirements and standards.
• Improved quality, compliance and product integrity across development projects.
• Sustainable ways of working that support future innovation.

If you've worked in a role where you coached product development teams to improve product quality, you'll feel at home here. If you've applied a defined building-system or product-governance framework during product development and worked across both people and processes to safeguard product quality, you'll be well prepared for the role. What matters most is your ability to combine technical judgement, coaching and clear communication.

You'll be part of a team dedicated to protecting and evolving the LEGO building system. The work is collaborative and knowledge-rich, with plenty of opportunities to coach teams, facilitate workshops and share expertise across functions. Together, the team helps colleagues navigate complex decisions while balancing innovation, quality and long-term system value.

You’ll become a trusted coach and partner for product teams, helping them navigate complex decisions. You’ll confidently balance creativity and innovation with building-system integrity, support multiple development projects at the same time, and turn complex governance requirements into practical actions. You’ll work closely with Design and Engineering to strengthen governance and support the future development of the LEGO building system.

What’s in it for you?

• 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 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.

Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun.