Exploring Career Opportunities at LEGO Education: A Detailed Look at Job Roles and Descriptions
LEGO Education offers a wide array of career opportunities for individuals passionate about playful learning and its impact on education. This article delves into various job descriptions within LEGO Education, providing a comprehensive overview of the roles, responsibilities, required skills, and benefits of working in this innovative environment. LEGO Education believes in the power of Learning Through Play, and they bring it to life in classrooms worldwide.
Roles in Design and Technology
Senior Creative Technologist
As a Senior Creative Technologist at LEGO Education, you will fuse engineering, design, and AI to transform bold ideas into safe, hands-on, and meaningful learning experiences for children worldwide. This role blends creative exploration with hands-on execution, turning emerging AI capabilities into tangible, delightful prototypes and products anchored in child safety, privacy, and wellbeing.
Core Responsibilities:
- Work with creative technology innovation across physical and digital domains at the intersection of engineering, design, and artificial intelligence.
- Collaborate closely with a broad range of stakeholders - including Heads of Product, Concept & Design Leads, Learning Leads, and fellow innovators - to elevate our product experiences.
- Create highly innovative concepts and prototypes, ranging from early concept exploration to novel additions to our existing products.
- Help push an agenda of rapid innovation, experimentation, and iteration with your deep knowledge of AI and strong expertise in physical and digital prototyping.
Required Skills and Experience:
- A relevant Master’s degree.
- Solid experience developing complex physical and digital products and ecosystems, preferably within EdTech, consumer electronics, electronic toys, or related industries.
- A strong portfolio, a solid understanding of children’s capabilities, and a genuine passion for learning.
- A proven track record of delivering highly innovative products and features through cross-functional collaboration.
- Comfortable using LEGO bricks to quickly sketch ideas and build concept models.
- Solid experience working with a variety of technologies in creative ways, and the ability to swiftly turn concepts into digital and physical prototypes
- Hands-on knowledge of electronics and embedded prototyping platforms (e.g., Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi).
- High proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C++, JavaScript).
- Deep experience with AI/ML systems, such as computer vision, reinforcement learning, and LLMs
- A T-shaped profile with a deep understanding of the innovation process and familiarity with industrial design, UX, interaction design, digital design, education, and learning.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, enabling strong sparring with internal colleagues and teams across the LEGO Group.
- A dedicated teammate who truly believes that the best work is done together.
- Proactive and pragmatic, lead by example and are not afraid of hands-on execution.
- Comfortable delivering and receiving direct, candid feedback and thrive in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
- A passion for learning and children’s education is essential, and experience working within the learning space is a strong plus.
Model Designer
Learning Through Play has been close to Javier’s heart for a long time. This, together with his belief in LEGO Education, led him from his role at LEGO DUPLO® to help drive our work as a Model Designer.
Roles in Marketing and Communication
Senior Social Media Manager
LEGO Education is looking for a Senior Social Media Manager to lead its social media strategy and execution across owned channels - elevating how we connect with educators, partners, and influencers around the world! As Senior Social Media Manager, you will be the strategic owner of LEGO Education’s social media presence. You combine analytical rigor with creative curiosity, and you know how to translate business goals into actionable social plans.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic ownership of LEGO Education’s social media presence.
- Translate business goals into actionable social plans.
- Combine analytical rigor with creative curiosity.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of social media leadership, preferably within B2B, agency or global brand contexts.
- Deep understanding of platform ecosystems, social guidelines, and evolving digital trends.
- Experience with social listening, social management platforms (e.g., Sprinklr), analytics tools and campaign measurement.
- Strong strategic thinking paired with a hands-on approach; you can set strategy and help activate it.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, comfortable presenting to senior partners.
- Experience with influencer & creator collaboration and community building.
- A proactive, collaborative approach - able to partner with cross-functional teams.
Content Marketing Manager
The LEGO® Education US Marketing team is looking for an outstanding Content Marketing Manager who embodies the roles of strategist, creator, and overseer. In this role, you will own the full content lifecycle - across all products, personas, and funnel stages - and shape how our US audience discovers and engages with LEGO Education content! This is a highly hands-on and impactful role where you’ll lead the production of long-form and short-form content, create and manage our content calendar, and build a scalable content engine. This role’s responsibilities include coordinating copywriting and creative development resources. In this role, you will drive the creation, distribution, and success of our content, which ultimately serves to deliver our products to educators to help them positively impact millions of students across the US.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Own the full content lifecycle across all products, personas, and funnel stages.
- Lead the production of long-form and short-form content.
- Create and manage the content calendar.
- Build a scalable content engine.
- Coordinate copywriting and creative development resources.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- Experienced in content marketing, preferably in the B2B education tech industry.
- Proven track record of creating and delivering a creative content marketing strategy, including experience managing copywriting and design resources.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with impeccable attention to detail.
- Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
- Skilled in diverse copywriting: long-form, short-form, and technical.
- Owned end-to-end content marketing calendar: creation, maintenance, and distribution.
Roles in Sales and Account Management
Account Manager
The company is seeking a commercially driven Account Manager to drive sustainable B2B growth across LEGO® Education’s reseller channel in Eastern and Southern Europe (including Poland, Italy, Greece and other selected markets). This role combines strong commercial ownership, relationship leadership, and operational excellence.
Core Responsibilities:
- Channel Growth & Account Development :Own and grow a portfolio of dedicated B2B resellers (EU East & South).
- Develop and execute joint business plans to drive revenue growth and market penetration.
- Proactively identify market growth opportunities.
- Lead and actively manage the reseller forecasting, demand planning, sales reporting, marketing planning and pipeline of strategic opportunities.
- Monitor reseller business performance and implement corrective actions where required.
- Contribute to regional strategy development through market feedback, insights, and channel intelligence.
- Translate local market insights into recommendations for portfolio focus, go-to-market and sales-enablement initiatives.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience in B2B key account or sales management, ideally within a reseller/distributor go-to-market model.
- Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated success in growing existing accounts and identifying new growth opportunities.
- Experience managing complex sales cycles, ideally including institutional or government-driven tender processes.
- Solid operational capabilities including forecasting, demand planning, pipeline management, and performance reporting.
- Data-driven and analytical mindset with the ability to translate insights into actionable growth plans.
- Excellent negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across multiple seniority levels.
- Proven ability to build long-term, trust-based relationships with external partners and cross-functional internal teams.
- Experience working in a matrix organization.
- Fluent in English; Polish or Italian (C1 level) would be a strong advantage.
- Willingness to travel (approx. 20%).
Account Manager
Bring your B2B key account expertise and operational excellence to drive sustainable growth across Eastern and Southern Europe - while contributing to LEGO® Education mission and purpose of inspiring the builders tomorrow.
Roles in Learning and Education
Senior Learning Design Manager
Andy joined the company as a Senior Learning Design Manager. Ever since, he’s invested nearly two decades of teaching expertise in our products.
Account Manager
With her background in urban education policy and experience working in classrooms, Alysha brings a unique perspective to her role as an Account Manager. It’s also proved to be the ideal way to explore a passion she shares with us: bringing equity and excellence to education.
Benefits of Working at LEGO Education
LEGO Education offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. These benefits include:
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- Family Care Leave: Enhanced paid leave options for important family moments.
- Insurances: Life and disability insurance for peace of mind.
- Wellbeing Programs: Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing, including access to the Headspace App and various wellbeing initiatives.
- Colleague Discount: A generous discount on LEGO products from day one.
- Bonus Scheme: Rewards for achieving goals and contributing to the company's success.
- Hybrid Work Policy: An average of 3 days per week in the office, promoting flexibility and work-life balance.
Locations
LEGO Education has several global hubs:
- Billund, Denmark
- Boston, MA, USA
- London, UK
- Shanghai, China
- Singapore
Other Potential Roles
- LEGO Retail
- Consumer & Shopper Engagement
- Digital Technology
- LEGO Design
- Manufacturing
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (e.g., sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, and religion) to apply for roles. The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.
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