Sound Design Manager - LEGO DESiGN + **Location** Billund, Denmark + **Job ID** 0000022485 + **Category** Creative & Design **Job Description** Are you passionate about creating sounds for new dimensions in play experiences? Bring your experience, expertise and ears to help innovate and shape exciting new sonic frontiers throughout the LEGO® universe! **Core Responsibilities** In this role as a Design Manager (Sound Design Lead), you help bring interactive products to market by guiding teams to provide energetic and viable connected experiences! You will be a key driver of the design process, a lead voice in developing interactive audio experiences, and a crucial facilitator in a small yet team with varied strengths. Moreover, you will: + Help to drive projects, processes, and own the entire design life cycle from conceptualisation to market launch, coordinating with multiple teams while ensuring adherence to deliveries and achievements + Translate design briefs and strategic choices/vision into understandable objectives and actions within own area, and collaborate with project and department leadership to guide both internal and external members to achieve project goals + Clearly communicate the design vision, direction, and process while showing strength in both Sound Design and Project Management. Provide valuable support and feedback to colleagues to ensure high-quality deliveries, aligning initiatives and prioritising tasks. + Support strong and effective partnerships across the product development cycle; present projects and prototypes to partners in eloquent and compelling ways + Identify critical risks and fundamental roadblocks during the development process, and assist in developing vital action plans to tackle obstacles hindering project success + Advocate Sound Design from both a creative and technical standpoint, providing critical and precise analysis and documentation to support brave, abstract and innovative concepts **Play your part in our team succeeding** You will join the Sound Design Team in Billund, Denmark. We are a cross-functional subset of Interaction Design, working in a coordinated manner across our portfolio of projects including digital/physical products. We are part of the novelty projects, and are working closely together with model designers, marketers, app developers and more to drive and support interactive play innovation for both new product experiences in development, and for existing products already live in the market. An innovative and curious mentality is required to push the boundaries on how much new play we can bring to kids globally and how we are bringing longevity in play to kids worldwide. **Do you have what it takes?** To excel in this role, you should be collaborative, enjoy working with cross-functional teams, and possess strong communication and motivational skills. Precision in technical documentation and a daring spirit for innovation are important. You should have proven experience in Sound Design and Audio Engineering, with a focus on synthesis and procedural systems. A strong portfolio showcasing successful physical and digital products, where you led sound design from start to finish, is required. Experience in developing connected products, services, toys, or video games, and iterating audio system design is important. You should be able to encourage and align designers and stakeholders through compelling demonstrations and collaborations. Expertise in designing and prototyping play experiences using both digital and physical means is vital, along with project management experience in a technical environment and familiarity with tools like Confluence and JIRA. Proficiency in industry-standard mixing and mastering, as well as English, is also required. Additional skills that would be beneficial include experience with screen-free interactivity and audio for embedded hardware. An interest in psychoacoustics, early childhood education, research, and communications is advantageous. Experience in sonic branding or UX design, along with a passion for creating magnificent experiences for kids and a love for play, would further enhance your fit for this position 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. Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply. 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. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. **Join the LEGO® team today.**