Senior Play Inventor (Physical Play Experiences)

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

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).
• No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core responsibilities

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 team
• Inventors with a visual design process (Miro) that makes it easy for teams to follow.

Play your part in our team succeeding 

Play Discovery is a capability built on how kids play, and discovery is central to our purpose: To make the world a playground and create a life more playful, our job must be playground.

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. 

Do you have what it takes? 

• Launched at least 3+ play-centric products in the toy, games, entertainment design or related industries. 
• Background in mechanical engineering and/or design with the ability to translate ideas to playable prototypes and making them realistic for LEGO production. 
• Proficient at using 3D tools and ability to build your function into LEGO models.
• Ability to facilitate idea sessions with cross-functional teams and understand/translate system in play for LEGO.
• Proactive learning about consumer insights/kids’ tests and facilitate do-it-yourself test.
• Skilled in graphics design, for labels and communication.
• Proficient in Miro, visual design process.
• Skilled in networking and communication, great at using video to document playing experiences.
• Experience working with prototype equipment.
• Experience operating electronics production machines (CNC milling, circuit printing) and 3D printing (FDM, photolithography). 
• Ideal (desirable) additional skills: CAD modelling (Fusion, Rhino) and fabrication for prototyping milling, moulding and casting, 3D printing), and experience working with smart materials (piezoelectric, shape memory alloys, electroactive polymers). 

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. 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.

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