Play Finders Internship

the LEGO Group; Billund; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work with a multi-disciplinary team

HQ in Billund, Denmark

Active co-creator with kids

Hybrid work policy (avg 3 days in the)

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark invites aspiring interns to join the Play Discovery team within Creative Play Lab for a four-month internship starting September 2026. You’ll explore ideation, prototyping and early-stage concepts, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to imagine fun, new play experiences for LEGO fans today and tomorrow.

You’ll work on a range of innovation missions, learn from world-class experts, and contribute to playful concepts that could become real products.

Qualifications

• Student for the full duration of the internship.
• Must graduate after 31 December 2026.
• Internship is a compulsory part of your education.
• Available to start 1 September 2026 and end 31 December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.
• Experience with a range of creative skills listed in the Intern description is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Find the fun in new technologies, materials and playthings.
• Seek inspiration from the wider world and bring findings back to internal teams.
• Challenge colleagues to think like a kid and embody the kid's perspective in toy design.

Skills

Sketching

Painting

Sculpture

Woodwork

Graphic Design

LEGO Model Building

Textiles

3D CAD

Game Engines

Coding

Videography

Editing

Electronics

Prototyping

Tools

Lathe

Drill Press

3D Printing

Arduino

CAD Software

Job description

Job Description

Are You an Aspiring ToyInventor Looking to Discover New Play?

JointheLEGO®Group’sPlay Discovery team withintheCreative Play Lab for aPaidInternshipat our Head Quarters in Billund, Denmark!

Are you driven by an unquenchable passion for discovering new play opportunities through early-stage ideation, concept development, and prototyping? If so, youcouldbe one of the talented students joining our Play Discovery department this year, where creativity and imagination thrive!

Start date: September 2026

Length :4 months(untilend of December2026)

About us:

Creative Play Lab is an ambitious, future‑focused innovation hub inventing radical new play opportunities and never‑seen‑before experiences for LEGO®fans oftoday and tomorrow.Wegrow the boundaries of what play can become, using bold experimentation, advanced technologies, and deep insight into how kids play to imagine meaningful, next‑generation experiences.Ourmix of creatives, innovators, researchers, engineers, and technologists rapidly transforms curiosity into tangible concepts, redefining the future of play and ensuring LEGO® playremainsat the forefront of creativity and joyful exploration.
As an interninourPlay Discoverydepartment,you’lljoin teams dedicated toletting loose their creative curiosity andexploring new play experiences.You’llunleash yourimagination across arange ofinnovationmissions,collaboratingcross-functionallytodevelopconceptsintoplayableprototypes.

About the Internship:

We look for interns who bring something genuinely different to our innovationhub, adding fresh cultural insight, creative energy, and new ways of thinking. Your time with us will span personal curiosity projects, team capability-building initiatives, andinnovation Missions. Every day isdifferentandyou’lllearn directly fromaworld‑classmultidisciplinaryteamas you build your craft, embracingambiguityas youdiscover new play experiences.

Meet thePlay Finderteam:

As an intern Play Finder, you will embark on broad play explorations to spark play for children of all ages. You will truly embody what it means to think like a kid and see the world from their perspective. This role focuses on analysing, observing and remixing old and new play, to find ingredients that can be used within the teams and projects you support. You will work in a very multidisciplinary way, cross-pollenating different media, observing and analysing trends, building with existing LEGO elements, remixing and modifying concepts with a variety of digital and physical tools as you try to ‘discover the fun’ with your playful eye. You are just a big kid looking for the ‘toy’ in everything. Your work will directly shape the products and experiences that end up in the hands of millions of builders worldwide.

Internship Eligibility:

To qualify for this internship opportunity, you must meet all of the following criteria: (1) You will be a student for the full duration of the internship period; (2) You are currently due to graduate after 31st December 2026; (3) You will not be requesting a delayed graduation date to qualify for this internship; (4) This internship will contribute quantitatively towards your course credit and is a compulsory part of your education; (5) You are available to undertake this internship contract starting from 1st September 2026 and ending on 31st December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.

We also encourage interns to have experience withat leastsomeof the following:

• Sketching

• Painting

• Sculpture

• Woodwork

• Graphic Design

• LEGO Model Building

• Textiles

• Machine Workshop toolse.g.lathe,drillsetc.

• Electronics

• 3D CAD programs

• Game Engines

• Coding

• Videography / Editing

• Broad understanding of the Toy market across genres & play types

Whatwe’relooking for:

Curiosity:Our teams thrive on a playful curiosity inall they do.Youneed to bealwaysasking questions,seeking the reason “why”,digging for answerseven whenit’shardandnever stopwondering “what if…”

Bravery:Ourorganisationis a huge place full of different people and different perspectives.Youneed to becomfortablemeeting new people every day,speaking up when you disagree,receiving feedback,facing the unknowns of innovation headonand forging yourself a path when thingsaren’twell defined.

Focus:Our workloadand priorities are always changing.You need to be happyshifting priorities fast,focusing on a high priority task one week then focusing ondevelopingyour own independentcuriosities thenext.

Responsibilities:

Wewantyou to bringallyourenergy,enthusiasmand experiences to work everyday so we can achieve amazing things together while you learnalong the way. Some of your typical responsibilities could include…

• Find the fun innew technologies,materialsandplaythings

• Seek inspiration from the wider world outside and bringingfindingsback to the internal teams

• Challenge colleagues to think like a kid and embody thekidsperspective in your approach to toy design

Perks:

• Work with a passionatemulti-disciplinaryteam oflike-mindedcreative inventorswhereyou’lllearn something newevery dayandbuild your professional network

• Live and work in the globalheadquartersof the LEGO®Group inBillund, Denmarkand explore ourstate-of-the‑artcampus

• Be an active co-creator with kids – they know how to make fun and meaningful play.

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 seeksto 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.

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