Director of US Marketing (LEGO Education)

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$169K/yr – $254K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 4 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the US marketing strategy with cross‑functional leadership to deliver growth, alignment with global priorities, and measurable commercial impact.

  • Lead and develop the US marketing team and oversee integrated campaigns, events, content, and demand generation.
  • Partner with US Sales and Global Marketing to improve lead quality, conversion, and revenue contribution.
  • Orchestrate global campaigns and product launches with local relevance and data-driven insights.

Job Description

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • 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.
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We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”. We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day.Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world. These places are home to 31,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide. A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!

Founded in 1980
Billund, Region of Southern Denmark, DNK
20K employees (2,826 in marketing)
76% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
60.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.8M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.9%
Direct
48.6%
Referral
3.4%
Social
1.5%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~21.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,795 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

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