Senior Play Inventor (Physical Play Experiences)

at  LEGO

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 designers, makers, hackers and engineers. We have a thinking by making philosophy, bringing LEGO bricks to life with new play functions and playing experiences.

We are looking for:

• Creative inventors with long-term vision that can conceive impactful physical play experiences that inspire new directions for future products across all LEGO® franchises.
• Curious inventors that are fascinated by early-stage observation, experimentation, bringing technology R&D together with creative concepts and user needs.
• Makers who can build next phase prototypes, lead and drive element phase together with engineering, including test molds and functional element test.
• The ability to translate ideas from workshops and play sessions to new playable prototypes for kids-test and gate meetings, turning insights into directional briefs.
• Brave inventors that are comfortable working in unknown territories, enjoy challenging work, and take joy in exploring new and uncharted waters.
• Great at building LEGO sketch models and designing with 3D tools or handmade prototypes that can be evaluated and tested with kids.
• 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.

• Collaborators who can facilitate the innovation process from idea to shelf ready play opportunities, working with cross-functional teams electronics, prototyping, story and digital in Play Discovery, within Creative Play Lab (CPL) and external teams like engineering and M-phase design teamInventors with a visual design process (Miro) that makes it easy for teams to follow.