Story Innovation Internship

lego; Billund; On-site; DKK 67,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

HQ in Billund

Job summary

LEGO Group’s Play Discovery internship in Billund, Denmark, offers students a chance to join our Creative Play Lab and help explore new play opportunities through ideation, prototyping, and concept development.

The 4‑month program runs September to December 2026, with hands‑on work in a world‑class, multidisciplinary team that brings ideas to life through sketches, models, and stories.

Qualifications

• You are a student for the full duration of the internship.
• You are due to graduate after 31 December 2026.
• You will not request a delayed graduation date to qualify for this internship.
• This internship contributes to your course credit and is compulsory for your education.
• You can start on 1 September 2026 and end on 31 December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.

Responsibilities

• Generate concepts for new play ideas.
• Make concepts ready for testing.
• Mood boarding.
• Storyboarding.
• Character creation.
• World building.

Skills

Curiosity

Bravery

Focus

Sketching

Concept art

3D modelling

Animation

Storyboarding

Education

Relevant school program

Job description

Job Description

Are You an Aspiring Storytelle r 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!

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

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.

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 Story Innovation team :

In the Story Innovation capability, we act as creatives and idea sponges that collect the best ideas and bring them into a holistic concept (a story) that will spark the imagination and make kids play. We are the ambassadors of the story within the concepts and responsible for its appeal and comprehension. We do it for the play.

We sketch concepts; we bring the story, the world, the characters and the play to life in sketches, storyboards, art , early models, videos and new tools and platfo rm s . Anything to get the new play experience across in the most entertaining and appealing way .

We research, explore, and co-create. And we use the research to target specific audiences across the new LEGO portfolio and into the future of play .

Internship Eligibility:

• (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 with at least some of the following:

• Sketching
• Concept art
• 3D modelling / animation
• Game Engine s
• LEGO Model sketch Building
• Animation
• WritingVideography / Editing / Efx
• Storyboarding

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 inclu de...

• Generating concepts for new play
• Make concepts ready for testing
• Mood boarding
• Story Boarding
• Character creation
• World buil ding

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