Story Innovation Internship

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.   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 t eam :   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:   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 with at least some of the following:   Sketching     Concept art   3D  modelling / animation   Game Engine s   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:   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 explore our  state-of-the-art  campus   Be an active co-creator with kids – they know how to make fun and meaningful play   Application:    We welcome international applications for this role however you must be able to live and work in Billund, Denmark for the duration of the internship itself. The LEGO Group will provide support with permits to work in Denmark for the internship  period  and we can support with finding accommodation. The costs of your accommodation along with your travel costs to/from Denmark must be covered by you.    We have multiple Play Discovery internships available, each supporting a different team with their own focus area. Take a moment to review all these opportunities and apply  only to those that truly align wi