Director of Production - Publishing Platform
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 - 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.
Role Summary
We are hiring a Director of Production to lead production for shared platform technology that game teams build and ship on. You will take the platform from early releases into a hardened, versioned foundation that other teams can rely on. The work ahead is to take the platform through its first title integrations, its first production releases, and subsequent expansion.
You set the roadmap and release cadence across engine SDKs, backend services and the release pipeline. You run the relationships with the teams that depend on the platform, internal partner teams, third-party vendors, and co-development partners. You are the person who makes sure features and releases land in the right order, for the right teams, on dates people can plan around.
Key Responsibilities
Own planning and delivery of the platform roadmap jointly with product leadership, sequencing platform work in tune with our title pipeline
Run the release train: versioned, stable releases of SDKs, backend services, tools and reference projects
Translate product requirements and title needs into platform priorities, and platform constraints back into terms product and team leads can plan around
Establish and run the onboarding, rollout and upgrade processes for teams building on the platform
Manage dependencies on partner platform, legal, trust & safety, data and infrastructure teams
Lead third-party vendor relationships: contracts, roadmaps and escalation paths
Grow the production function as the team and the number of titles it supports grow, owning resource planning and the KPIs that go with it
Run a lightweight production process sized for a small team that ships fast, and hold every release to the highest compliance and trust & safety standards
Define and report platform delivery health metrics: time to integration, update adoption, release predictability and service availability
Required Qualifications
Experience shipping and operating live games
Substantial game production experience, including leading production for shared technology that other teams depend on
Fluency in the technical shape of the work: SDKs, backend services, cloud infrastructure and data pipelines
The aptitude and experience to evaluate technical designs, challenge sequencing calls and ask the right questions
Experience running a team whose customers are other studios or partner teams, where your output is their dependency
Experience owning third-party vendor relationships: selection, contracts, integration timelines and escalation
Clear writing: roadmaps, release notes, status and decisions in a form people outside the team can act on
Comfort being the single point of accountability for schedule, and the judgment to push back and keep scope honest
Experience partnering with product functions and the product development, and user experience design process
Preferred Qualifications
Experience shipping mobile games on iOS and Android
Experience shipping for children or family audiences, or under comparable regulation such as COPPA, GDPR-K or age assurance
Experience leading cross-disciplinary efforts across engineering, design, art and UX
Experience and comfort using product and delivery data to inform and drive decisions
Time in a licensed or brand-owned portfolio
Experience standing up production process in a new team, rather than inheriting one
Live operations experience, incident handling, on-call rotations, post-mortems
- Department
- Central Technology
- Location
- LEGO Digital Play London Office
- Remote status
- Hybrid