P&C Technology & Payroll Lead

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-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 P&C Tech & Payroll Lead at LEGO Digital Play, you will shape the people-technology landscape of a young company from a blank page. You will lead the selection and implementation of the systems that power the employee experience, and design, build and run an in-house payroll function spanning the UK, Denmark and the US.

This role suits someone who has taken people systems and payroll from decision to go-live more than once, who is equally comfortable evaluating vendors and reconciling a payroll run, and who takes genuine pride in getting people paid accurately, on time, every time.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end selection and implementation of the core P&C technology stack - HRIS, payroll and connected people systems - from requirements and vendor evaluation through configuration, launch and adoption.
• Design and build an in-house payroll function covering the UK, Denmark and the US, then own the accurate, compliant delivery of every payroll cycle across all three markets.
• Own the integrations and data flows between people, payroll, finance and benefits systems, keeping employee data accurate, secure and reportable end to end.
• Establish payroll and systems processes, controls and documentation that stand up to audit and scale as the company grows.
• Partner with Finance, Legal and external advisers on statutory reporting, tax, pensions and benefits compliance in each market.
• Identify opportunities to streamline existing P&C processes through system enhancements, automation, and workflow optimisation - not just by deploying AI agents, but improving the underlying process design so that automation works reliably at scale.
• Understand the opportunities created by AI automation and agentic AI, and champion data privacy, security, and the governance structures that ensure data integrity across all people systems.
• Act as the internal expert and first point of support for P&C systems, enabling the wider People & Culture team through training, clean administration and clear guidance.

Must Have:

• A track record of leading multiple end-to-end P&C/HR system implementations - across more than one platform - from selection through configuration, launch and adoption (such as Workday or HiBob).
• Demonstrated success implementing payroll systems and bringing payroll in-house.
• Deep, hands-on expertise running UK payroll in-house, including HMRC reporting, pensions auto-enrolment and year-end processes.
• Experience building functions in an early-stage or scaling company environment.
• Experience running or overseeing payroll in a global capacity across multiple countries.
• Strong command of employee data management, integrations and reporting across connected systems.
• A rigorous, controls-minded way of working, with clear documentation and an eye for detail under deadline.

Nice to Have:

• Background in gaming or technology companies.
• Working familiarity with Danish and/or US payroll and statutory requirements.

Hybrid Working: This role is based in our London office. Our hybrid working policy is three days a week in the office.

Department People & Culture Locations LEGO Digital Play London Office Remote status Hybrid