The LEGO Group

Director of US Marketing (LEGO Education)

The LEGO Group$169K — $253K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of the US Education market and K-12 landscape
  • Experience with integrated marketing strategies that drive business impact
  • Ability to translate insights and priorities into effective marketing plans
  • Leadership experience with teams and external partners in marketing context
  • Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
  • Data-driven mindset for optimizing marketing performance

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing US marketing team
  • Represent the US market voice in global marketing leadership
  • Deeply understand US market dynamics and customer needs
  • Lead integrated marketing strategy for core classroom penetration
  • Create marketing plans and metrics connecting activities to growth
  • Partner with Sales to enhance lead quality and conversion
  • Manage execution of global campaigns in the US

Benefits

  • Enhanced paid family care leave
  • Life and disability insurance coverage
  • Access to wellbeing programs and the Headspace App
  • Generous colleague discount from day one
  • Bonus scheme based on team success
  • Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Head of US Marketing will lead the marketing strategy for LEGO Education's US business, with a clear focus on accelerating LEGO Education's expansion into the core classroom. This role is responsible for translating US market needs, customer insights, and commercial priorities into an integrated marketing strategy that builds awareness, drives demand, strengthens pipeline, and supports revenue growth across the full US portfolio.

As a member of the US & Global Marketing leadership teams, this role will serve as the primary connector between the US market and Global Marketing Centers of Excellence, leveraging resources across Brand, Communications, Web, and Product Marketing to deliver cohesive, audience-relevant, and commercially effective marketing plans while directly managing US Events, Content, Campaigns, Marketing Ops, SDRs, and ABM. This role will have shared accountability for driving overall market growth and reach, ultimately creating impactful learning outcomes through hands-on learning experiences in students across the US.

Please Note:

  • Relocation assistance is offered for this position.


  • The role is based out of our new Boston HUB location at 1001 Boylston Street. Our hybrid working model is 3 days office/2 days home weekly.


Core Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and develop a best-in-class US marketing team responsible for overseeing an outsourced SDR function, national campaigns, national, regional, and digital events, content marketing, account-based marketing, lead generation, campaign execution, and measurable commercial impact.


  • Member of the US & Global Marketing Leadership Teams, representing the US market voice and ensuring alignment between US commercial priorities and global marketing strategy.


  • Develop a deep understanding of US market dynamics, Core Classroom buying journeys, customer needs, and audience insights to continuously optimize marketing strategy and inform global priorities.


  • Lead the integrated US marketing strategy across the full portfolio, ensuring plans support core classroom penetration, sustained enrichment position, brand awareness, demand generation, pipeline growth, web performance, and sales enablement.


  • Create and deliver US marketing plans, tactics, budgets, and performance measures that clearly connect marketing activity to US growth ambition and business outcomes.


  • Partner closely with US Sales leadership to improve lead quality, conversion, account progression, and marketing contribution to revenue.


  • Orchestrate US execution of global campaigns and product launches, leveraging Global Marketing resources across Brand, Communications, Web, and Product Marketing to ensure cohesive, locally relevant, and commercially effective activation.


  • Serve as the key US partner to global teams, providing market feedback, customer insights, campaign learnings, and performance data to shape future global strategies, assets, messaging, and product marketing priorities.


  • Partner with Educational Impact, Brand, and Comms to establish and grow co-marketing presence alongside fellow organizations in US Education, ensuring mission alignment, message resonance, and reach.


  • Own and drive the compliance agenda across US Marketing activities, including policies related to marketing investments, donations, sponsorships, gifts, hospitality, entertainment, and FOC goods.


Play your part in our team success!

At LEGO® Education, you contribute to our quest to give children the best possible learning experiences through purposeful play. Our goal is to deliver high-impact innovation concepts with a focus on interlinking education with the physical and digital LEGO® experience. Through our focus on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM), we want to enable every student to develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed at school and in life.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Strong knowledge of the US Education market, including how districts and schools make decisions, what educators need to adopt solutions successfully, and how the broader K-12 landscape continues to evolve.


  • Experience leading integrated marketing strategies that connect brand, demand generation, digital, events, content, product marketing, and sales enablement into a cohesive plan that drives measurable business impact.


  • Skilled at turning market insights, customer needs, and commercial priorities into clear marketing plans that build awareness, strengthen pipelines, improve conversion, and support revenue growth.


  • Experience leading teams and external partners, including outsourced sales development or lead generation functions, with a focus on performance, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.


  • Strong cross-functional partner who can work effectively with Sales, Global Marketing, Product Marketing, Communications, Brand, Web, and other stakeholders to align priorities and deliver through influence.


  • Analytical and commercially minded, comfortable using data, campaign performance, customer insights, and pipeline metrics to make decisions and optimize marketing investment and impact.


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Compensation
The salary for this position has a range of $169,031.00 - $253,547.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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

Your 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.

About The LEGO Group

The LEGO Group is a Danish toy production company based in Billund. It is best known for the manufacture of Lego-brand toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks. The LEGO Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates several retail stores. The company was founded on 10 August 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The word 'lego' is derived from the Danish words 'leg godt', meaning 'play well'. The LEGO Group's flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. LEGO pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots.
Learn more about The LEGO Group
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1932

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