Experimental Research Lead (Director)

LEGO Gruppe; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an innovation and product development expert in the Creative Play Lab. You will lead a team focused on pioneering new play experiences for children, ensuring their needs are met through innovative research and experimentation. The role involves strategic vision-setting, team management, and fostering a culture of curiosity and data-driven decision-making. Enjoy benefits like family care leave, life insurance, and a generous colleague discount while working in a hybrid environment.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Wellbeing Resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus Scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in innovation and product development.
• Experience leading a team of 10+ people, remote/hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and strategic priorities for the Experimental Research Team.
• Manage and resource a team of 10-15 Innovation Researchers.
• Champion audience-first innovation to meet children's needs.

Skills

Innovation

Experimentation

Design Research

Data Analysis

Agile Testing

Job description

Job Description

Are you an innovation and product development expert?
...then get your application ready, this one is for you!

The Creative Play Lab is The LEGO Group’s innovation department, tasked with inventing the future of LEGO play! The Experimental Research Team are kids experts, pioneering new ways to understand kids andensuring our new play experiences satisfy and delight the builders of tomorrow!

Responsibilities

• Rethink & rebuild the experimentation/research capability to underpin the learning needs of the Creative Play Lab, the LEGO innovation department

• Set the vision, strategic priorities and OKRs for the Experimental Research Team, ensuring we are derisking the new propositions we bring to market, pioneering how we experiment, test and learn, and championing the child in our development process.

• Identify key initiatives, tools, training, etc. required to deliver on the vision and work with ERT members and other Capability Leads to deliver them.

• Manage and resource a team of 10-15 Innovation Researchers, based in London, Billund & Singapore, from diverse professional backgrounds including market research, design and academia. Conduct performance reviews and all other People Leader responsibilies. Hiring, on-boarding, coaching new team members.

• Build and maintain an experimentation toolbox that supports agile and iterative testing and learning, and manage the budget, vendors, etc.

• Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making across the organization, developing training and resources that enable everyone to test and learn.

• Champion audience-first innovation and help the organization get close to kids, to ensure our new propositions satisfy their needs and make a meaningful difference in their lives.

• Measure and communicate the impact of research and insights on innovation outcomes and business performance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working in experimentation, design research, insight, data, business intelligence, etc., ideally with experience from agency-side and brand-side, and with a diverse learning toolbox including agile testing & learning, as well as large scale studies (multi-method, multi-market).

• Significant experience working in innovation and product development.

• Experience building and scaling a new capability area and team in a large, complex business.

• Experience leading a team of 10+ people, remote/hybrid.

• Experience managing senior stakeholders from diverse areas of the business including Design, Marketing, Engineering and Manufacturing

• Experience managing a large budget and toolbox

Nice to have

• Experience working in toys and games industry

• Workshop design and facilitation skills

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.

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 seeksto 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.

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