Head of Product for Computer Science, LEGO Education

• Location Billund, Denmark

• Job ID 0000016163

• Category Project / Program Management

Job Description

Are you interested in building playful, creative, and impactful learning experiences for young children around the world?

From strategy, to concept, and down to execution in markets, you act as a business owner for LEGO Education’s flagship product line of Computer Science and STEAM experiences. Conducting the team using agile and iterative development methodologies, you empower innovation through your leadership and decision-making skills – delivering meaningful learning outcomes and building a sustainable business.

Core Responsibilities

• Top and bottom-line responsibility for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence family of educational products

• Oversees all product development phases (e.g., strategy, concept, prototyping, development, manufacturing, launch, iteration, and end-of-life)

• Primary contact point to all partners (e.g., markets, functional leaders)

• Evaluates and optimizes products through oversight of the backlog and an iterative process

• Informal leadership of a large cross functional team across domains (e.g., design, engineering, quality assurance, product marketing, learning content, etc.)

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Product Owner for Computer Science (CS) is a business-critical role within LEGO Education – co-developing and delivering product strategy in the short-, mid- and long-term. The Product Owner for CS reports into the Head of Product Experience for LEGO Education. Product Experience is organized as a “matrix organization” in which the Product Owner has full responsibility for the business, prioritization, day-to-day oversight, and ensuring that business goals are met. Functional leaders have full responsibility for capabilities and the definition of processes within their functional area.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate brings an educational background within engineering, design, business, marketing or equivalent combined with extensive work experience in design, engineering, education, or product management, working with products in the Computer Science, STE(A)M, and/or Robotics educational space. In addition, you bring a proven track record of being able to develop strategy with diverse partners and drive execution with diverse teams. As a person, you show the ability to understand, synthesize, and take decisive action from a broad diversity of inputs including markets, design, learning & outcomes, engineering, manufacturing, user insights, and beyond. Finally, you have a passion and interest in lifelong learning and education.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to 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.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• 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 –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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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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Join the LEGO ® team today.