Director, Head of Rewards (HR)

LEGO Digital Play (LDP) will bring the LEGO brand into the world of first-party digital entertainment and gaming. 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 – as more and more of those lives take part in digital.

We are a fast-growing start-up driven by collaboration, innovation, and a shared passion for making things happen. Our culture is open, intellectually rigorous and creatively vibrant.

We’re looking for an experienced and hands-on Director, Head of Rewards to design, scale, implement and evolve our total rewards strategy as we continue to grow rapidly. This role is a key leadership position within the People & Culture (P&C) function, reporting directly to the Head of P&C, with responsibility for ensuring our compensation and benefits philosophy supports our ambition to attract, motivate, and retain world-class talent in the gaming and tech industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, scale and evolve the global rewards strategy covering both short- and long-term incentives, performance frameworks, and benefits programs across multiple regions (Europe and the Americas).

• Develop and lead compensation design - from base pay architecture to incentive plans, executive compensation, equity strategy, and recognition programs.

• Develop job architecture/backbone and implement across functions

• Assess and evolve benefits offerings to ensure market competitiveness, employee engagement, and alignment with company culture and values.

• Partner with Finance and Executive leadership on budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for compensation and benefits programs.

• Build scalable processes and policies to support organizational growth and ensure global alignment with local market practices.

• Provide thought leadership on pay transparency, reward philosophy, and evolving market trends in gaming and tech industry.

• Coach and support leaders, People Partners and Talent teams to ensure consistency in total rewards practices and communication across all levels.

• Engage with senior stakeholders and the Board on executive pay governance, benchmarking, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading total rewards in a scaling start-up or fast-growing organisations, with exposure from hands-on implementation to strategic design.

• Deep understanding of compensation, benefits, and incentive design, including experience covering executive through to early-career levels as well as designing job architecture.

• Strong international experience, ideally across Europe and the Americas.

• Excellent analytical and market benchmarking skills, with comfort using data to inform strategic recommendations.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate complex business dynamics with clarity and confidence.

• A builder mindset — pragmatic, adaptive, and energized by creating structure in growing, creative organizations.

• Industry experience in gaming, entertainment, tech and/or adjacent spaces preferred.

• Relationships driver: track record in building relationships across an organisation to meet your agenda.