About the Role
We are looking for a Director of Production to lead the production team across multiple products and workstreams. This leadership role involves setting standards, building the team, and ensuring ambitious ideas become high-quality products on time and at scale. You will work closely with creative, technical, product, and strategic leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead the production strategy for a major project, setting standards, frameworks, and ways of working.
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary production team, fostering a culture of accountability, craft, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior leadership across creative, engineering, and commercial functions to align production planning with organizational priorities.
- Define and evolve the production operating model as the team and product portfolio scale.
- Oversee delivery across assigned products and workstreams, ensuring milestone commitments are met without compromising quality.
- Establish and maintain portfolio-level roadmaps, resource plans, and milestone frameworks.
- Identify and resolve cross-product dependencies, risks, and blockers, escalating to executive leadership when necessary.
- Ensure consistent application of production standards and tooling across teams.
- Act as the senior production voice in cross-functional and executive forums, communicating delivery status and risks.
- Drive resourcing strategy for the production team, planning for growth, managing capacity, and developing talent.
- Build onboarding and development frameworks for production talent.
- Align ways of working with other teams across the organization.
Requirements
- Experience in game production with substantial time at senior and director level across multiple shipped titles.
- Live service experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading production across a complex product with many workstreams at scale.
- Proven track record building and leading high-performing production teams.
- Deep expertise establishing production processes, tooling, and standards from the ground up in early-stage or high-growth environments.
- Strong command of portfolio-level planning, including resource allocation, milestone management, risk frameworks, and cross-team dependency mapping.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including regular engagement with executive and C-suite leadership.
- Ability to operate fluidly between strategic leadership and hands-on production oversight.
- Experience working across platforms, genres, or product types, adapting delivery models to different contexts.
- Self-directed, able to operate effectively with limited oversight in a fast-moving technical and creative environment.
- Background in UGC (preferred).
- Experience within a large consumer brand or entertainment company navigating complex internal and external partner relationships (preferred).
- Exposure to children's media, edtech, or family-facing digital products (preferred).
Skills
- Production strategy
- Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Portfolio-level planning
- Resource allocation
- Milestone management
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Talent development
- Process establishment
- Tooling implementation
Experience Level
- Senior
- Director
About the Company
- LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways.
- Our mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been.
- We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans of LEGO—and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
- We are at the earliest phases of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand.
- Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
