Ready to reimagine your career? ZURU’s 2025/2026 New Zealand Summer Intern applications are now open!
If you’re a student interested in gaining experience at one of the fastest growing and most disruptive consumer goods companies in the world, applications across ZURU Group, ZURU Toys and ZURU Edge are all open now!
This year we are moving our process to rolling recruitment, meaning we will be reviewing and progressing applications as candidates apply so we would encourage you to apply early!
The Internship Experience
At ZURU, we aim to offer an internship experience that’s different from any other. One that reflects who we are as a business. We have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day. We treat all of our interns as if they are permanent team members (and we hope that some of you one day will be!). This means you’ll be working on meaningful projects from week one all while learning strategies and skills that drive the success of some of the world’s biggest Toy & FMCG brands from industry leaders.
You will also:
- Be set up to win with a two-day induction to get you up to speed on everything ZURU
- Learn how our people continue to shift the needle through regular learning sessions with key business leaders
- Experience ZURU’s playful side by dabbling in content creation (#dayinthelife) and attending social events
- And so much more!
Our summer internship programme will run from mid November 2025 - mid February 2026.
About You
We don’t ask to see your grades, and we take on students from a range of different backgrounds and degrees. What we care about is sharing our internship experience with students who have a natural inclination to go above and beyond, who demonstrate grit and dedication, and most importantly, who radiate positivity and humility.
ZURU is a special place to work, and we live by our unique set of values, the ZURU DNA (you can find out more about our ZURU DNA on our careers page).
If you’re excited by the opportunity to get stuck in to meaningful work and exciting projects and you have a mindset around continuous improvement and challenging the status quo then we want to hear from you!
Want to know more about the application process and what to expect from our internship? Visit our internship careers page here https://zuru.com/internships/
*Please note that while we don’t have a formalised graduate programme, there may be opportunities to stay on post-internship depending on business needs.*
We take on interns into a range of teams at ZURU these include:
- Brand Marketing - Brand marketing at ZURU is focused on building strong consumer connections through compelling storytelling, strategic campaigns, and data-driven insights to drive global brand engagement. As an intern, you’llwork with a high-energy team to localize content, support influencer collaborations, conduct market research, and help execute best-in-class brand strategies worldwide.
- Paid Media Marketing -The paid media team at ZURU delivers some the most innovative campaigns in the world, operating at the forefront of channels like TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat. Interns are an integral part of our team, creating campaigns from scratch on those platforms and analyzing their performance.
- Talent Acquisition - Our Talent Acquistion team works to find and bring top talent into ZURU, working across a range of our international locations. As an intern in this team you can expect to be involved in end to end recruitment, including sourcing, screening and interviewing candidates and working with leaders in the business.
- Content Marketing - Content marketing at ZURU is about creating engagingcontent that builds brand awareness and connects with consumers across social platforms. As an intern, you'll work with dynamic teams to develop organic content, film and edit short-form videos, monitor trends, and help grow our digital presence globally.
- Commercial Edge - Our Commercial teams help to drive growth in revenue and profitability globally for our FMCG business. As an intern, you can expect to be involved across a range of markets and retailers, in business development, commercial modelling, strategic planning and much more, with exposure to multiple teams across countries and across the business!
- Commercial Toys - Our Commercial Toys team are responsible for driving sales and brand strategy of ZURU Toys across global markets. As an intern in this team, you'll be exposed to a variety of business areas, including sales, New Product Development and licensing. You’ll also gain hands-on experience in a range of work including identifying market gaps and opportunities and building sales tools like brand decks and case studies to drive commercial success.
- Logistics - Our Logistics team optimize global distribution using data-driven forecasting and advanced modeling while managing millions in inventory. We collaborate with global teams across New Product Development, Sales, and Customer Service in a dynamic, tech-forward environment.
- Data & Analytics - As an intern with our Data and Analytics Team you can expect to be involved in collecting, managing and storing data across the globe on our cloud infrastructure with sources from marketing to sales to logistics. Then make that data useful by enriching it with advanced analytical applications, statistical analysis and machine learning to deliver accessible and actionable insights to key decision makers through the business. Informing our investment decisions from marketing and promotion to new product development.
About ZURU
ZURU is on a mission to disrupt across industries, challenge the status quo and catalyst change through radical innovation and automation advances. This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; ZURU Edge is pioneering new generation FMCG brands to better serve modern consumers.
Founded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has quickly grown to a team of over 5000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations.
One of the largest toy companies in the world, globally recognised and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, and Gumi Yum Surprise.
LIFE@ZURU
We recognise that ZURU’s success stems from our people and you can only be at your best when you are looking after yourself. ZURU encourages all our team members to invest in their wellbeing by providing an array of benefits and tools.
WHAT WE OFFER
🌱 Culture for Growth
🌎 Global Opportunities
💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team
💰 Competitive Remuneration
🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more
ZURU – Tomorrow Reimagined
