Play Finders Internship

the LEGO Group; Billund; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark is offering a paid internship in the Play Discovery Team within the Creative Play Lab. Start date is September 2026 for a 4‑month program at our headquarters in Billund. You’ll work closely with a multidisciplinary team to explore new play experiences and develop prototypes.

You’ll join as an intern Play Finder, analysing trends, remixing ideas, and collaborating across media to shape future LEGO products for children worldwide.

Qualifications

• Student for the full duration of the internship.
• Expected to graduate after 31 December 2026.
• Available to start 1 September 2026 and end 31 December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Sketching

Painting

Sculpture

Woodwork

Graphic Design

LEGO Model Building

Textiles

Machine Workshop tools

Electronics

3D CAD programs

Game Engines

Coding

Videography / Editing

Toy market understanding

Tools

3D CAD software

Game engines

Video editing tools

Job description

Job Description

Are You an Aspiring Toy Inventor Looking to Discover New Play?

Join the LEGO® Group’s Play Discovery team within the Creative Play Lab for a Paid Internship at our Head Quarters in Billund, Denmark!

Start date September 2026

Length 4 months (until end of December 2026)

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 of today and tomorrow. We grow 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. Our mix of creatives, innovators, researchers, engineers, and technologists rapidly transforms curiosity into tangible concepts, redefining the future of play and ensuring LEGO® play remains at the forefront of creativity and joyful exploration.

As an intern in our Play Discovery department, you’ll join teams dedicated to letting loose their creative curiosity and exploring new play experiences. You’ll unleash your imagination across a range of innovation missions, collaborating cross-functionally to develop concepts into playable prototypes.

About The Internship

We look for interns who bring something genuinely different to our innovation hub, adding fresh cultural insight, creative energy, and new ways of thinking. Your time with us will span personal curiosity projects, team capability‑building initiatives, and innovation Missions. Every day is different and you’ll learn directly from a world‑class multidisciplinary team as you build your craft, embracing ambiguity as you discover new play experiences.

Meet the Play Finder team

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.

Experience you should have

• Sketching
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Woodwork
• Graphic Design
• LEGO Model Building
• Textiles
• Machine Workshop tools e.g. lathe, drills etc.
• Electronics
• 3D CAD programs
• Game Engines
• Coding
• Videography / Editing
• Broad understanding of the Toy market across genres & play types

What We’re Looking For

• Curiosity Our teams thrive on a playful curiosity in all they do. You need to be always asking questions, seeking the reason “why”, digging for answers even when it’s hard and never stop wondering “what if...”
• Bravery Our organisation is a huge place full of different people and different perspectives. You need to be comfortable meeting new people every day, speaking up when you disagree, receiving feedback, facing the unknowns of innovation head on and forging yourself a path when things aren’t well defined.
• Focus Our workload and priorities are always changing. You need to be happy shifting priorities fast, focusing on a high priority task one week then focusing on developing your own independent curiosities the next.

Responsibilities

We want you to bring all your energy, enthusiasm and experiences to work every day so we can achieve amazing things together while you learn along the way. Some of your typical responsibilities could include...

• Find the fun in new technologies, materials and playthings
• Seek inspiration from the wider world outside and bringing findings back to the internal teams
• Challenge colleagues to think like a kid and embody the kids perspective in your approach to toy design

Perks

• Work with a passionate multi-disciplinary team of like‑minded creative inventors where you’ll learn something new every day and build your professional network
• Live and work in the global headquarters of the LEGO® Group in Billund, Denmark and explore our state‑of‑the‑art campus
• Be an active co‑creator with kids – they know how to make fun and meaningful play.

What’s in it for you?

• 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.

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