Senior Director – Head of Technical Program Management

1001 LEGO System A/S; København; Hybrid; DKK 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Program Management to lead complex cross-domain technology programs within Consumer Marketing Technology. You will guide a team of Technical Program Managers, balancing agility with governance to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business leadership to build roadmaps and execute at scale, shaping long-term technology strategy while driving execution excellence.

Qualifications

• Delivered large-scale technical programs spanning multiple products, teams, or business domains.
• Led program execution across complex stakeholder landscapes, including senior leadership engagement.
• Built and managed digital roadmaps aligned to strategic business outcomes.
• Directed teams of program management professionals, including coaching, development, and performance planning.
• Orchestrated risks, dependencies, governance, and delivery planning across concurrent initiatives.
• Applied agile software development practices within technology and software engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-year program roadmaps connecting technology delivery to measurable business outcomes.
• Establish operating rhythms providing transparency, alignment, and momentum across large programs.
• Foster partnerships across engineering, product, technology, and business leadership teams.
• Implement delivery frameworks enabling fast progress with governance and confidence.

Skills

Large-scale programs

Executive-level stakeholder management

Roadmap alignment

People leadership

Risk, dependency, governance

Agile software practices

Job description

Job Description Just imagine shaping the digital roadmap behind the experiences millions of consumers and colleagues rely on every day. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Senior Director, Technical Program Management, you'll lead some of the most complex and strategically important technology programs across the LEGO Group. You'll combine executive-level technical program leadership with people leadership, guiding a team of Technical Program Managers while directly driving large cross-product and cross-domain initiatives. This role sits within Consumer Marketing Technology, where we build technology solutions that support both consumers and employees. You'll help create the right balance between agility, engineering excellence, and program assurance, ensuring teams can deliver meaningful outcomes without unnecessary governance.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered large-scale technical programs spanning multiple products, teams, or business domains.
• Led program execution across complex stakeholder landscapes, including senior leadership engagement.
• Built and managed digital roadmaps aligned to strategic business outcomes.
• Directed teams of program management professionals, including coaching, development, and performance planning.
• Orchestrated risks, dependencies, governance, and delivery planning across concurrent initiatives.
• Applied agile software development practices within technology and software engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Earned certifications in agile project or program management frameworks.
• Overseen portfolio-level financial considerations, including total cost of ownership or value-based prioritization.
• Supported technology strategy development across large product or domain portfolios.
• Worked within consumer-facing digital product or marketing technology environments.

What you’ll build

Multi-year program roadmaps that connect technology delivery to measurable business outcomes. Clear operating rhythms that provide transparency, alignment, and momentum across large programs. Strong partnerships across engineering, product, technology, and business leadership teams. Delivery frameworks that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining confidence in execution. A high-performing Technical Program Management capability that supports critical strategic priorities. If you've worked in a role where you coordinated large cross-functional programs while leading experienced program managers, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to translate complexity into clarity and create value through delivery.

Life on the team

You'll join a collaborative technology organization that believes great outcomes come from working together.

We partner closely across product, engineering, and business teams and value open communication, continuous learning, and shared ownership.

You'll help build a community of practice for Technical Program Management while fostering an inclusive culture where curiosity, emotional intelligence, thoughtful influence, and a genuine desire to learn are part of everyday work.

Our hybrid working rhythm supports both focused work and meaningful collaboration.

What success looks like

Success means guiding multiple strategic programs simultaneously while helping others do the same. You'll strengthen the Technical Program Management capability, improve portfolio execution across user groups and domains, and help shape long-term technology strategy. Working closely with senior technology, product, and business leaders, you'll create the conditions for sustainable delivery, stronger collaboration, and lasting value across the organization.

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 (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.

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.

Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.