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About the Role

As Senior Director, Trust & Safety Legal, you will be the senior legal leader for trust, safety and digital wellbeing matters at LEGO Digital Play. You will help ensure safety, responsible innovation and regulatory compliance are embedded into products, platforms and ways of working by design. This role provides the legal architecture, judgement and governance needed to support trusted, age-appropriate and responsible digital experiences.

Responsibilities

Lead Trust & Safety legal strategy
Serve as the lead legal adviser on trust & safety, online safety, digital wellbeing and child protection and privacy matters
Provide strategic advice to the General Counsel, senior leadership and business teams on emerging legal, regulatory and reputational risks
Develop practical legal frameworks that help LEGO Digital Play enable innovation while managing safety, privacy, wellbeing and regulatory requirements
Help shape the legal strategy for trusted digital play as products, platforms and partnerships evolve
Embed safety-by-design legal thinking
Partner with Product, Engineering and Design teams throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through to launch and iteration
Advise on legal and regulatory considerations for content features
Build scalable legal review processes for new products, features and experiences
Support teams in balancing creativity, community, engagement, safety, privacy, children’s rights and regulatory expectations
Provide regulatory leadership
Collaborate closely with LEGO Group Digital Policy leads to monitor and interpret evolving online safety, platform, privacy, consumer, child protection and AI regulation affecting digital products and online communities
Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for product and business teams
Advise on matters relating to the UK Online Safety Act, EU Digital Services Act, GDPR/GDPR-K, COPPA, platform governance, age-appropriate design and emerging digital wellbeing frameworks globally
Support Digital Policy Team engagement with regulators, policymakers, industry bodies and external advisers where required
Build governance and risk management frameworks
Design legal governance frameworks for trust, safety and digital wellbeing topics
Develop risk assessment methodologies for new products, features, partnerships and market entries
Create decision-making frameworks for launch readiness, escalation and senior leadership review
Support executive and board-level discussions on trust, safety and digital wellbeing risks and opportunities
Act as a strategic partner to future Trust & Safety capability
Work closely with current and future Trust & Safety, policy, moderation, safety operations and product leaders to provide legal and regulatory SME input
Act as the senior legal counterpart to any future dedicated Trust & Safety function, ensuring seamless alignment between legal requirements and operational execution
Help identify future capability and resourcing needs for trust & safety legal support as LEGO Digital Play grows
Contribute to the development of specialist legal expertise and, subject to business needs and growth, potentially build and lead a small legal team supporting trust, safety and digital wellbeing

Requirements

Qualified lawyer with significant post-qualification experience including senior in-house experience
Deep, recent expertise in children's online safety and child data privacy
A strong privacy foundation (GDPR/GDPR-K, privacy-by-design) applied to online safety
A demonstrated ability to anticipate the direction of online-safety regulation (UK Online Safety Act, EU Digital Services Act and emerging child-protection packages) and translate it into graduated, pragmatic compliance paths
Experience advising product, engineering and platform teams in-house on complex regulatory matters, with the seniority, presence and judgement to make and defend risk calls directly with executives
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous and scaling environment, including openness to the role's organisational anchoring evolving as LEGO Digital Play grows
Experience with products or services used by children, families or large online communities, including familiarity with trust & safety operating models, moderation, escalation and appeals
Gaming, interactive entertainment or children's digital brand background
Standing in the online-safety and children's-privacy community — known to regulators, industry bodies and peer networks
Experience working internationally and navigating EU, UK and US regulatory frameworks
US or other non-UK qualification is welcome where grounded in European advisory experience
Experience helping build legal capability, processes or teams in a growing business
A strong personal interest in safe, joyful and responsible digital play
You are a senior lawyer who combines legal depth with product instinct, commercial pragmatism and strong values
You want to help build the governance, frameworks and legal capability that enable a business to create trusted digital experiences at scale
You are a strategic thinker who can anticipate regulatory and societal change
You are a builder who enjoys creating frameworks, processes and capability from the ground up
You are a strong collaborator who can influence product, engineering, policy and operational teams without needing to own their roadmaps
You can give clear, practical advice in areas where the law, technology, child safety and brand reputation intersect
You are comfortable being the GC’s senior subject matter expert in a strategically important and high-visibility area
You can guide and collaborate with executive leaders on complex subject matter, welcome challenge, and exercise sound judgement when balancing commercial risk with legal and regulatory compliance

Skills

Trust & Safety legal strategy
Online safety
Digital wellbeing
Child protection
Privacy
GDPR/GDPR-K
Privacy-by-design
UK Online Safety Act
EU Digital Services Act
COPPA
Platform governance
Age-appropriate design
AI regulation
Risk management
Legal governance
Product lifecycle advising
Content feature advising
Legal review process building
Regulatory interpretation
Risk assessment methodology development
Decision-making framework creation
Executive and board-level advising
Legal and regulatory SME input
Legal capability building
Team leadership

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Qualified lawyer

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.