ZURU Toy Company
Marketing Summer Internships 2025/2026
The Role
Ready to reimagine your career? ZURU’s 2025/2026 New Zealand Summer Intern applications are open for Marketing!
If you’re a student with a passion for branding, consumer trends, content creation, or digital strategy, this is your chance to gain hands-on experience at one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive consumer goods companies in the world. We’re recruiting across ZURU Toys and ZURU Edge for driven individuals ready to make their mark in marketing.
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 Marketing 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’ll work 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.
- Content Marketing: Content marketing at ZURU is about creating engaging content 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.
- Video Editing (brand engagement): The Brand Engagement team at ZURU is focused on amplifying our social media presence through high-impact, creator-led content. As an intern, you’ll support the editing and publishing of content from our global creator network. You’ll gain hands-on experience refining visual storytelling, managing content schedules, tracking performance, and staying ahead of the latest social trends to help drive engagement across channels.
- Creator & Influencer Partnerships (brand engagement): The Brand Engagement team at ZURU is focused on amplifying our social media presence through high-impact, creator-led content. As an intern, you’ll help bring our influencer partnerships to life - from sourcing and onboarding creators to supporting live campaigns. You’ll gain hands-on experience researching and curating creator lists, managing outreach and relationships, tracking deliverables and performance, and collaborating with global marketing teams to ensure every partnership aligns with brand goals and drives impact.
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
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The Company
What We Do
ZURU is a disruptive and award-winning company that designs, manufactures and markets innovative toys and consumer products. Inspired by kids and imaginative play, ZURU is one of the fastest growing toy companies in the world and is known for their agility, creativity and new-age manufacturing techniques. The company that started in New Zealand now employs more than 5,000 staff across 18 offices, produces 600,000 toys a day and distributes to most major retailers in over 120 countries. ZURU has delighted millions of families all over the world with brands such as Bunch O Balloons™, X-Shot™, Rainbocorns™, Robo Alive™, Smashers™, 5 Surprise™ and Metal Machines™ as well as through partnerships with entertainment properties, including Nickelodeon, Disney, Universal Studios and DreamWorks. With a strong commitment to the community, ZURU supports Captivating International, local China orphanages and also student development programs in Asia and in New Zealand. ZURU will continue to pave new ways for kids to play and focuses on reimagining what this looks like every day.
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