Do you have a strong combination of visual and conceptual story telling skills - perhaps from working with comic books? And do you want to help create stories and visuals that go out to children across the globe? Then join us in this editorial position and help us bring stories to life. Help set the visual direction for LEGO® books and magazines As Visual Editor, you serve as an important link between the LEGO Group and our publishing and licensing partners all over the world. You become a key player in ensuring that the LEGO® DNA is expressed in just the right way according to our values and guidelines. An important part of this is to ensure a commercial angle that considers our partners’ business as well as our own. In all your projects, you coordinate with a great number of internal and external stakeholders, when you: Evaluate written drafts for new stories, develop re-briefs and present these to our partners. These briefs shall outline the story and include ideas on how to express the true LEGO spirit – in story, pictures and words Create briefs that combine written guidelines with (hand) sketched storyboards Ensure that authors and publishers are aligned with our tone of voice, values and individual play theme to secure that the stories are linked to the LEGO brick play experience Bring relevant insight on children´s play into the collaboration to ensure added play value Bring stories to life As part of our Licensing & Extended Line department, you play a central role in helping engage children across the globe in the LEGO universe. Within the LEGO family, we take pride in expanding the imaginations of millions of children - and at the same time, we encourage you to be inventive and creative. So using your strong eye for visuals, you help inspire the builders of tomorrow. Great visualisation and collaboration skills In this position, your key to success lies in your ability to explain your ideas to others in a way that is easily understood - also when you communicate with contacts based in e.g. Hong Kong and New York via phone or email. You can establish and develop good relations to all kinds of people - and you know how to make people stick to a brief in a positive and constructive way. You have a background as a Designer and Illustrator, and you are used to telling stories to children through images - experience with comic books is an advantage You master Adobe Creative Suite as well as hand sketching You can evaluate and optimise a total story including idea, story line, wording and visuals You have experience with the development of story bibles and style guides You speak and write English fluently Bringing it to life "Joining Design Management, you get to influence LEGO products and create engaging universes for children all over the world," says Senior Director, Licencing and Extended Line Design Management, Sine Klitgaard Møller. Join the global LEGO Family In the LEGO Group, we succeed together, and you will be part of a global family, where you can use your creativity and enjoy a fun working environment across the LEGO Community. We look very much forward to reading your application - please remember to attach your application and a current CV in English, including your graphics portfolio demonstrating your visual storytelling skills (max 2 MB in PDF format).
