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Business Summer Internship

Business Summer Internship

Our Auckland team leads Global Commercial, product and marketing strategy, brand development, creative direction, and content creation. Every summer we hire interns to join a variety of teams across our Auckland Office

Frequently Asked Questions

The sky is the limit in terms of opportunities for growth and development at ZURU. In your first week of the 12-week internship, you will take a crash course in all things business development – ZURU style. We believe these frameworks are the ultimate foundation to success at ZURU, and what better way to learn than from our ZURU leaders.

At ZURU, we celebrate mistakes and encourage questions, providing a fail-fast environment that fosters growth and learning. As our commitment to continuous improvement, we also provide you with a wide range of support and development opportunities throughout the internship including:

  • Pairing you with a mentor to guide and support you throughout your internship.
  • Weekly workshops with our globally renowned business leaders to broaden your understanding of the context in which ZURU operates.
  • Completing meaningful work from day one, our interns are treated as part of the team and will embark on projects that drive tangible business outcomes.
  • Training to develop your personal brand.
  • Opportunities to work cross-functionally and outside of the scope of your placement team.

Our internship program provides a unique opportunity to join a global company that is growing rapidly. We promise to treat our interns like permanent team members by providing meaningful work where you are able to make an impact from day one. It’s a fast-moving environment where you’ll get responsibility early and plenty of opportunities to learn by doing. You’ll work alongside leaders who are experts in their fields and get a clear view of how the team, and the wider business, really operates.

Key Dates for our 2026/2027 NZ Summer Internships

  • Applications are open from mid-February to mid-March
  • We will advertise other internship roles throughout the year so we recommend keeping an eye on our careers page

We look for interns who:

  • Are in the penultimate or final year of their tertiary study (any discipline welcome) and are willing to be based in Auckland full-time from November – February.
    Demonstrate strong work ethic and have a proven track record of going above and beyond in all that they do – whether it’s participating in extracurricular clubs, balancing work and study, or becoming an expert in something just for fun!
  • Are curious and willing to get stuck into anything and everything with a continuous improvement mindset and a perspective that challenges that status quo.
    Approach novel tasks and challenges with humility and enthusiasm
  • Resonate with our ZURU DNA:
    • Collaboration – we operate with a “we not I” mentality and sharing our learnings cross-functionally is what propels us forward and makes us better every day.
    • Overprepare – and Win – we put in the work, hard and early.
    • Good Humans Only – with our team of A players, we foster a culture of meritocracy. People at ZURU are all round ‘Good Humans’.
    • Shift the Needle – we hustle and persist to get things done, either winning or learning along the way.
    • Compounding Improvement – we aim for 2% improvement each week in all that we do. Always challenging, always doing, always improving to stray away from complacency.
    • Radical Candour – always constructively dissatisfied, we rely on feedback loops and debate hard for the best outcome.
  • Successful applications will be invited to an initial online interview throughout March and early April
  • Candidates will then be invited to take part in our Assessment Centres, in-person in Auckland and online
  • Candidates will then be invited to final interviews with Leaders
  • Offers will be finalised by mid May 2026
  • The internship begins – mid November 2026

Internship Application

If you’re a student interested in gaining experience at one of the fastest growing and most disruptive consumer goods and toy companies in the world, applications across ZURU Group, ZURU Toys and ZURU Edge are all open now!

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