Sr. Research Partner, LEGO® Education

Job Description

Just imagine a career where you can shape the future of learning by harnessing your expertise to lead change and inspire educators and students alike. Transform this opening into reality by joining us as a Senior Research Partner within our Efficacy and Insights Team at LEGO® Education.

Internally: This role is at Manager Specialist level

We do not offer relocation for this position
 

Core Responsibilities

• Integrated Research Strategy: Collaborate with product teams to align development goals with a unified research strategy. Create research roadmaps that tie key product development milestones to testing timelines, ensuring coherence and data-driven decisions throughout the product development process.
• Metric Development: Establish and track key performance indicators to evaluate product implementation and student learning outcomes across products, driving continuous improvement.
• Research Rooted in Learning Sciences: Lead research projects simultaneously, applying evidence-based theories and mixed-method approaches informed by child development, learning sciences, design thinking, and evaluation.
• Agile, Rapid-Cycle Testing Management: Oversee rapid testing and analysis to deliver actionable insights that inform agile product decisions within short iteration cycles, ensuring methodological rigor despite tight timelines.
• Data Visualization & Reporting: Present results and actionable insights through clear dashboards, visualizations, debriefing sessions, and concise reports tailored for diverse partners, making insights easily understood and actionable.
• Research Standards & Ethics: Maintain ethical practices, promote equitable research design, and ensure compliance with regulatory policies, including child safety and data privacy.
• Evidence & Trend Scans: Conduct rapid evidence reviews and field scans to identify relevant research, emerging evidence-based practices, and regional trends in STEM education. 

Play your part in Our Team’s Success

The Efficacy and Insights Team lead the research strategy for project teams from conception to launch. We design innovative research strategies, processes, and tools that empower data-driven decision-making across product development, working closely with designers, engineers, curriculum developers, and product leads to ensure our solutions meet rigorous standards and deliver measurable impacts on learner outcomes and teaching practices.

The team values curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement. Joining us means working at a fast pace, delivering rapid insights with rigor, while helping shape team’s processes to scale educational impact across products. Importantly, we bring integrity, optimism, and a child-centered focus to ensure that every evidence-backed product we launch truly supports engaging, hands-on learning experiences for all children. We adopt different approaches by listening to feedback, reflecting on our processes, and engaging in new findings to strengthen our collaborations and optimize our work.
 

Do You Have What It Takes?

You’ll excel in a purpose-driven environment, fostering collaboration among diverse partners to drive measurable learning impact. Your expertise should include:

• An advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Educational Psychology, Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Child Development, or a related field in learning sciences.
• Strong STEM K-8 research experience, applying learning theories, mixed-method approaches, and quantitative analysis tools (Microsoft R and Excel) for data synthesis and analysis.
• Proven project management skills, managing multiple research projects simultaneously and delivering high-quality insights reports within fast timelines, balancing research rigor with agility to support iterative product development.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate research findings clearly, ensuring partners receive actionable insights for data-driven decision-making.
• Advanced proficiency with data collection, analysis, and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, QuestionPro, Power BI).
• Conducting research in agile, fast-paced product development environments while collaborating cross-functionally with designers, engineers, and product leads.
• Measurement development and validation.
• Building dashboards and automating workflows for efficient data collection, analysis, and insight generation. 
• Preferred qualifications include expertise in K-8 science education research and science standards (e.g., NGSS).

Occasional travel to testing sites, both locally and internationally, is expected, along with the ability to lift up to 10 kg when transporting testing materials.
 

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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 is what you can 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 our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

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.

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.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

• Just imagine building your dream career.
• Then make it real.
• Join the LEGO® team today.