Play Product Manager - Tooling, Telemetry & Analytics

LEGO Gruppe; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global toy company in London is seeking a Play Product Manager to lead product strategy and manage the development lifecycle of interactive play tools. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in product development, strong analytical skills, and a passion for creating innovative play experiences. This role offers a hybrid work environment with opportunities for professional growth and a variety of employee benefits.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on product development experience from consumer electronics or robotics.
• Proven experience developing software products from proof of concept to market.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret data.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy for interactive play development tools.
• Collaborate with designers to gather insights and translate user needs.
• Maintain overview of play experience development across portfolio.

Skills

Product development experience

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

User-centered design

Job description

Job Description

Are you a visionary product manager equipped to shape the play of the future?

The Play Product Manager plays an important role in our Play Product Management Team, under the Play Engineering group. You’ll be part of the core leadership trio alongside the Technology Lead and Software Project Manager taking ownership of the Play Tooling, telemetry & analytics space, delivering high quality and timely value driven product development for The LEGO Group.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy and future roadmap for internal interactive play development tools used by LEGO designers to create amazing interactive play experiences of the future, covering the full lifecycle of play development.
• Collaborate with relevant end users including interaction designers and business units to gather insights and translate user needs into actionable product requirements and value-driven user stories across both tooling and the telemetry and analytics platform.
• Maintain a clear overview of future play experience development across the portfolio to ensure the tooling & analytics roadmaps remain relevant, requiring close collaboration with other Play Product Managers within the team to drive a synthesized platform roadmap.
• Prioritize product features and enhancements based on user needs and feedback, business goals, and market trends, ensuring designers can create the play they want and are not hindered by the tooling capabilities.
• Understand and deliver a detailed and relevant data platform that allows effective analysis of play data for relevant stakeholders.
• Create and analyze product performance metrics and user data to inform future product decisions and improvements for the products you are responsible for, in collaboration with the full portfolio roadmap owned across the Play Product team.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by actively seeking feedback and iterating on product offerings.
• Develop and maintain a complex stakeholder map, facilitating communication and collaboration across various teams and making decisive critical trade-offs that drive the most business value within a complex business structure.
• Drive product development processes, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality features able to create world-leading play experiences.

Requirements

• Significant hands‑on product development experience from consumer electronics, robotics or a closely related field.
• Proven experience developing software products from proof of concept to market.
• Desire to push the bounds of LEGO play into new and uncharted play experiences.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data‑driven decisions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• A bias toward action, with a proactive approach to problem‑solving and decision‑making.
• Passion for interactive experiences and a strong understanding of user‑centered design principles.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with generative AI technologies and their internal application in product development.
• Relevant experience as a product manager releasing world class experiences, preferably in internal software development, tooling, data platform technologies or interactive design.
• Proven ability to manage products as part of a platform and competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you’re interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can 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.

Wellbeing – We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

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.

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 highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

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.

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