LEGO Ventures is looking for a talented, self-driven Art Director to join our Incubation team. As an Art Director, you will work closely with the Venture Experience lead and the wider Incubation team to develop and launch new businesses that brings play, learning and creativity to consumers around the globe

Do you have the passion to identify and form new ventures, based on early insight and trends and are you comfortable pioneering new experiences into the hands of consumers? If so, this is your chance to join the creative and visionary setup of LEGO Ventures Incubation Studio.

LEGO Ventures is looking for a talented, self-driven Art Director to join our Incubation team. As an Art Director, you will work closely with the Venture Experience lead and the wider Incubation team to develop and launch new businesses that brings play, learning and creativity to consumers around the globe.

An exciting journey ahead

Founded in 2018, LEGO Ventures is the venture capital arm of the LEGO Group, focusing on the future of learning, creativity, and play. The LEGO Ventures Incubation Studio is our launchpad for exploring new systems-in-play, focused on developing new playful concepts, products, and services that hold the potential to become new businesses. You will be anchored in the Incubation Studio in Billund, Denmark.

Responsibilities include:

• Hands-on delivery of concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, system maps, user flows, wireframes, visual design comps, and prototypes

• Participating in concept sessions, leveraging ethnographic research and design thinking

• Investigating emerging consumer market and technology trends and opportunities within Play, Learning, Creativity

• Hands-on delivery of material for the initial test campaigns to validate the venture opportunities (e.g. A/B testing)

• Support in user interviews and prototype testing

• Create engaging videos of prototypes and concepts

• Have fun every day!

Do you have what it takes to succeed?

We are looking for a strong communicator with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability and willingness to work in interdisciplinary teams. You are a self-starter and comfortable working with little direction or oversight – thus, the ability to prioritize your own workload and making sure deadlines are met, is one of your key characteristics. Moreover, you always strive to go the extra mile and getting projects to completion. To further succeed in this role, we expect that you have:

• 5+ years of studio designer experience

• Well-developed skills in Graphic and Visual Design

• Video creation and editing skills

• Storyboarding, visualizing and concept design skills

• Great communication, presentation and collaboration skills

• Knowledge of visual and design SW suites is a must – Adobe Suite, Sketch/Figma, CAD, etc or similar

• Experience from a high-pressure start-up or innovative environment, with exposure to multidisciplinary teams is a plus

• Skills in rapid in physical prototyping/mockups is a plus

• Knowledge and skills in CAD software is a plus

You should expect to travel 2-3 weeks in this role.

Direct impact on the builders of tomorrow

You will join LEGO Ventures Incubation Studio to focus on exploring and developing never before seen experiences while still paying respect to the depth and heritage of the LEGO Brand and Idea.

Your work will make a direct impact on our mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow and our vision to be a global force for establishing and innovating Learning-through-Play.

We are an agile, interdisciplinary team, focused on pushing the boundaries of the industry and where success equals the ability to quickly test and validate ideas, build prototypes and incubate new businesses.

If you have the passion, grit and curiosity to build innovative businesses from the ground up, we invite you to join our mission.

Join the global LEGO family

We take candidates into the process on a running basis, so forward your cover letter and a current CV in English as soon as possible.

We look forward to hearing from you.

About LEGO Ventures

Over the past decades, the LEGO Group has expanded its global presence and the LEGO brand has become a well-known and highly trusted brand across global markets. In light of the development of the LEGO brand, the LEGO Brand Group was established in 2017 to protect, develop and leverage the full potential of the LEGO brand. LEGO Brand Group exercises the owner-governance of the LEGO brand across all the LEGO branded entities primarily through the board of directors of the entities – the LEGO Group, the LEGO Foundation, LEGO Education, LEGO House and LEGO Ventures. All LEGO branded entities are committed to the development of children through playful learning under the shared mission to Inspire and Develop the Builders of Tomorrow. LEGO Ventures, founded in 2018, seeks to invest in entrepreneurs, ideas and start-ups that sit at the intersection of creativity, learning and play in a manner that aligns with this shared LEGO mission and supports the goal to reach as many children worldwide as possible with high quality, creative play and learning experiences.