Master Play Inventor

4 days ago

Billund, Denmark LEGO Gruppe Full time

Job Description

Do you want to make the world much more playful? Do you go through life with a childlike playful curiosity, asking how things work and what fills people with joy?

If you are, come and join the Physical Play Invention team in Play Discovery (LEGO Creative Play Lab) to help us create new, great, innovative playing experiences. We are a multidisciplinary team of adventurous play makers, hackers and engineers, with a thinking by making philosophy, bringing LEGO bricks to life with new play functions and experiences.

We are a world-class diverse team of Play Experts that play together with everyone and help elevate the Play Experiences across the world, pioneers ready for any eventuality, observing and inventing the future of prototyping, immersive storytelling, visual sensorial communication methods, collaboration, and building that extra powerful (extra/tenth) sense of exploration.

Please note:

  • Prerequisite: For us to assess the relevancy of your skills, please include a folio (ideally a link on your CV) that showcases your most playful work (product experiences or toys).

  • When/If showing a product example from a team effort, please make sure you point out what role you had and what exactly did you do and deliver.

Core Responsibilities

  • Play experience lead on complex projects, creating new future playing experiences that lead to new platform or scalable opportunities that will continue to be in the LEGO portfolio year on year.

  • Expert in 3D tools, preferably NX Unigraphics, creating new LEGO elements. Test/iterate and make it work in LEGO playable models. Approximately 50-80% of your time will be spent creating new elements for new playing experiences.

  • Lead and collaborate with cross-functional external and internal teams, brief prototyping, engineering, digital, electronics, research, and interns to create playable prototypes for kids’ testing. Approximately 20-50% of your time will be spent inventing together with the team.

  • Curious inventors that are fascinated by early-stage observation, comfortable working in unknown territories, experimentation, bringing technology and R&D together with creative concepts and user needs.

  • Translate ideas from discovery workshops and play sessions to new playable prototypes for kids’ testing and gate meetings, turning insights into directional briefs.

  • Pioneers that can spot the magic to create never-seen-before play experiences for kids by developing world-class tools, hacking sheds, magic time-machines; techniques for innovating, rapid prototyping, and developing the future of physical play experiences across platforms.

  • Capability leader, supporting own team and area, developing and teaching others in play discovery towards our strategy.

  • Great at building LEGO sketch models that can be evaluated and tested with kids.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Launched several play-centric products in the toy, games, entertainment design, or related industries that showcase your talent for inventing new experiences.

  • Expert at using 3D tools (preferably NX Unigraphics), able to problem-solve and come up with solutions to answer new play experience briefs.

  • Ability to facilitate idea sessions with cross-functional teams and understand/translate the system in play for LEGO.

  • Experience working with different low-fidelity prototype tools and equipment.

  • Great at using video to document playing experiences. Ideally skilled in graphic design (for communication) and ability to sketch ideas for briefs or visual processes.

  • Experience facilitating, testing, and collaborating with kids would be ideal but not a prerequisite.

  • Self-driven entrepreneurial approach to your work, walk the talk.

  • Experience operating electronics production machines (CNC milling, circuit printing) and 3D printing (FDM, photolithography) would be ideal but not a must.

  • Ideal (desirable) additional skills: CAD modelling (Fusion, Rhino) and fabrication for prototyping (milling, molding, and casting), and experience working with smart materials (piezoelectric, shape memory alloys, electroactive polymers).

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 (e.g., sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

Join the LEGO team today.

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