Story Innovation Internship

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work with a passionate multi‑disciplin

Live and work at LEGO Group HQ, Billun

Be an active co‑creator with kids

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark invites talented students to join the Play Discovery team in the Creative Play Lab for a four-month paid internship starting 1 September 2026. You’ll explore early-stage ideation, concept development, prototyping and cross‑functional collaboration to spark new play experiences.

During the internship you’ll generate concepts, build prototypes, storyboard and mood-board ideas, while learning from a world‑class multidisciplinary team on the LEGO Group campus in

Qualifications

• You will be a student for the full duration of the internship period.
• You are currently due to graduate after 31st December 2026.
• You will not be requesting a delayed graduation date to qualify for this internship.
• This internship will contribute quantitatively towards your course credit and is a compulsory part of your education.
• You are available to undertake this internship contract starting from 1st September 2026 and ending on 31st December 2026 in Billund, Denmark.

Responsibilities

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

Job description

Job Description Are You an Aspiring Storyteller 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.

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 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 platforms. 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 Engines
• LEGO Model sketch
• Building Animation
• Writing
• Videography / 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:

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

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?

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.

We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.