Senior Play Inventor (physical) [Denmark]

 

Job Description

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

Join us and become an expert in translating consumer insights to commercial play opportunities and bring iconic LEGO® play experiences to life with phenomenal new play functions and play experiences!

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Core Responsibilities:

As Senior Play Inventor in Play Discovery, you will create new and great, innovative physical playing experiences. You will go beyond the build and display to make the models come alive with new play, new features and functions by:

• Facilitating innovation process from idea to shelf ready play opportunities, collaborating with cross-functional teams in Play Discovery Creative Play Lab (CPL), e.g., Inventors, prototyping, engineering, design team and students.

• Translating ideas from workshops and play sessions to new playable prototypes for kids-test. Turn insights into directional briefs.

• Building LEGO® sketch models design with 3D tools or handmade prototypes that can be evaluated.

• Making next phase prototypes in right materials, realistic and feasible, and driving element phase together with engineering, including test molds and functional element test.

• Being a child at heart - play, iterate and play again!

Play your part in our team succeeding
Play Discovery is a capability built on how kids play, and discovery is central to our purpose. We are a world class diverse team of Play Inventors that play together with many collaborators and help elevate the Play Experiences across the world.

We are Pioneers ready for any eventuality, inventing the future of prototyping, immersive storytelling, visual sensorial communication methods, collaboration and building that extra powerful sense of exploration.

Check out Passion for Stuntz, Mickey & Friends Bracelets and Spinjitzu Slam to see some of the cool stuff we work on.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate is a creative playful wizard with an amazing portfolio. You have an experimental mentality and consistently seek evidence to check your opinions and beliefs with real consumers, knowing how to design experiments to avoid biases.

Combined with on a bachelor’s or master’s degree in design or mechanical engineering, you have great research skills and are trained to do prototyping of physical products.

• Great at using 3D tools (such as NX, Rhinoceros 3D: Rhino, Solid Works, Fusion)

• An innovative expert in translating ideas to playable prototypes and making them realistic for production

• Skilled conceptual thinker highly qualified for understanding and translating system in play for LEGO®

• Proactive and curious learner in consumer insights and comfortable with facilitating kid's test.

• Experienced with agile methodology within prototyping, experimentation, and rapid iteration.

• Communicates smoothly in English

Currently, we are looking for two new colleagues (1 permanent role, 1 time-limited role).

Please include your portfolio when applying (ideally a link on your CV)

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to 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.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• 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.

• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.

• Location

  Denmark
• Job ID

  0000008194
• Category

  Creative & Design

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