Senior Director, Trust & Safety Legal

Company Overview:

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 of LEGO—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.

As Senior Director, Trust & Safety Legal, you will be the senior legal leader for trust, safety and digital wellbeing matters at LEGO Digital Play. Reporting to the General Counsel, you will help ensure safety, responsible innovation and regulatory compliance are embedded into products, platforms and ways of working by design.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This is a strategic legal role within Legal & Business Affairs. It is designed for a senior lawyer who can operate as a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, Design, Community, Public Affairs, Corporate Affairs and future Trust & Safety leaders, without owning operational moderation, policy operations or engineering delivery.

The role will provide the legal architecture, judgement and governance needed to support trusted, age-appropriate and responsible digital experiences. As LEGO Digital Play scales, there may also be an opportunity to help shape and build specialist legal capability in trust, safety, digital wellbeing and related regulatory areas.

Core responsibilities

Lead Trust & Safety legal strategy

Serve as the lead legal adviser on trust & safety, online safety, digital wellbeing and child protection and privacy matters.

Provide strategic advice to the General Counsel, senior leadership and business teams on emerging legal, regulatory and reputational risks.

Develop practical legal frameworks that help LEGO Digital Play enable innovation while managing safety, privacy, wellbeing and regulatory requirements.

Help shape the legal strategy for trusted digital play as products, platforms and partnerships evolve.

Embed safety-by-design legal thinking

Partner with Product, Engineering and Design teams throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through to launch and iteration.

Advise on legal and regulatory considerations for content features.

Build scalable legal review processes for new products, features and experiences.

Support teams in balancing creativity, community, engagement, safety, privacy, children’s rights and regulatory expectations.

Provide regulatory leadership

Collaborate closely with LEGO Group Digital Policy leads to monitor and interpret evolving online safety, platform, privacy, consumer, child protection and AI regulation affecting digital products and online communities.

Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for product and business teams.

Advise on matters relating to the UK Online Safety Act, EU Digital Services Act, GDPR/GDPR-K, COPPA, platform governance, age-appropriate design and emerging digital wellbeing frameworks globally.

Support Digital Policy Team engagement with regulators, policymakers, industry bodies and external advisers where required.

Build governance and risk management frameworks

Design legal governance frameworks for trust, safety and digital wellbeing topics.

Develop risk assessment methodologies for new products, features, partnerships and market entries.

Create decision-making frameworks for launch readiness, escalation and senior leadership review.

Support executive and board-level discussions on trust, safety and digital wellbeing risks and opportunities.

Act as a strategic partner to future Trust & Safety capability

Work closely with current and future Trust & Safety, policy, moderation, safety operations and product leaders to provide legal and regulatory SME input.

Act as the senior legal counterpart to any future dedicated Trust & Safety function, ensuring seamless alignment between legal requirements and operational execution.

Help identify future capability and resourcing needs for trust & safety legal support as LEGO Digital Play grows.

Contribute to the development of specialist legal expertise and, subject to business needs and growth, potentially build and lead a small legal team supporting trust, safety and digital wellbeing.

Key qualifications and skills

Essential

• Qualified lawyer with significant post-qualification experience including senior in-house experience.

• Deep, recent expertise in children's online safety and child data privacy.

• A strong privacy foundation (GDPR/GDPR-K, privacy-by-design) applied to online safety.

• A demonstrated ability to anticipate the direction of online-safety regulation (UK Online Safety Act, EU Digital Services Act and emerging child-protection packages) and translate it into graduated, pragmatic compliance paths.

• Experience advising product, engineering and platform teams in-house on complex regulatory matters, with the seniority, presence and judgement to make and defend risk calls directly with executives.

• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous and scaling environment, including openness to the role's organisational anchoring evolving as LEGO Digital Play grows.

Highly desirable

• Experience with products or services used by children, families or large online communities, including familiarity with trust & safety operating models, moderation, escalation and appeals.

• Gaming, interactive entertainment or children's digital brand background.

• Standing in the online-safety and children's-privacy community — known to regulators, industry bodies and peer networks.

• Experience working internationally and navigating EU, UK and US regulatory frameworks. US or other non-UK qualification is welcome where grounded in European advisory experience.

• Experience helping build legal capability, processes or teams in a growing business.

• A strong personal interest in safe, joyful and responsible digital play.

The profile we are looking for

You are a senior lawyer who combines legal depth with product instinct, commercial pragmatism and strong values. You are not looking for a narrow advisory role. You want to help build the governance, frameworks and legal capability that enable a business to create trusted digital experiences at scale.

You are a strategic thinker who can anticipate regulatory and societal change.

You are a builder who enjoys creating frameworks, processes and capability from the ground up.

You are a strong collaborator who can influence product, engineering, policy and operational teams without needing to own their roadmaps.

You can give clear, practical advice in areas where the law, technology, child safety and brand reputation intersect.

You are comfortable being the GC’s senior subject matter expert in a strategically important and high-visibility area.

You can guide and collaborate with executive leaders on complex subject matter, welcome challenge, and exercise sound judgement when balancing commercial risk with legal and regulatory compliance.

What success looks like

A clear and credible Trust & Safety legal strategy is in place for LEGO Digital Play.

Safety-by-design legal review is embedded into key product and feature development processes.

Product and leadership teams see Legal as an enabling partner on trust, safety and digital wellbeing topics.

Regulatory developments are translated into practical business requirements early enough to shape design and delivery.

Strong relationships are established with internal stakeholders across LEGO Digital Play and the broader LEGO ecosystem.

The future shape of trust & safety legal capability is clearer, including potential team growth as the business scales.