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<h4>About ZURU</h4> 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 recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com . <h4>Position Overview </h4> Drive AI adoption across every ZURU region, business and department, measured against where we are today.Know how every team uses AI, map how their work flows, then build the AI that changes it.Stay ahead of the curve: find the best new AI and put it to work before the business asks.Lead from the dance floor, not the balcony: drive this relentlessly, every day. <h4>Position Impact </h4> Within 30 days, publish ZURU&#x27;s AI adoption baseline and ship an MVP a named business owner uses.Every week, report adoption against that baseline, workflows mapped and MVPs shipped.Within 90 days, adoption rises in every business unit, and proven MVPs run in daily work. <h4>Key Responsibilities </h4> Direction and pace <ul><li>Set AI&#x27;s strategy, scorecard and budget. </li><li>Report adoption and the gaps to chase to the whole business. </li></ul>Dance floor leadership <ul><li>Build MVPs and agents yourself. </li><li>Lead from the work, not from status reports. </li></ul>Know AI adoption <ul><li>Know who uses AI, how deeply and to what effect, in every team. </li><li>Act on the gaps. </li></ul>Map the workflows <ul><li>Map how work flows across ZURU, scored on people, cost, friction, manual work and frequency. </li><li>Highest impact first. </li></ul>Find where AI fits <ul><li>Find where more AI belongs in each workflow. </li><li>Fix a broken process before automating it. </li></ul>Prove it with MVPs <ul><li>Build MVPs in days to prove AI works in a real workflow. </li><li>Scale the winners and kill the rest. </li></ul>Plan with every business <ul><li>Agree with business leaders worldwide how and when AI enters their teams. </li><li>Grow the team with business need. </li></ul> <h4>Skills &amp; Experience </h4> <ul><li>Experience leading teams that put AI into business workflows, with ownership of the function&#x27;s strategy and budget. </li><li>Track record of measurable business wins within weeks of taking on a function. </li><li>Experience driving AI adoption across a whole business, measured against a baseline. </li><li>Experience mapping business workflows and redesigning them before automating. </li><li>Current, hands-on use of frontier models and agent tooling, building MVPs in days. </li></ul> <h4>Life at ZURU </h4> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else. <h4>WHAT WE OFFER </h4> <ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more </li></ul>ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

ZURU Tech

AI Integration Director

🚀 Ready to Lead AI Sprints, Build Smart Tools, and Put Automation Into Action from Day One? 🚀 <h3>About ZURU </h3> ZURU is on a mission to disrupt industries, challenge the status quo, and catalyze change through radical innovation and advances in automation. 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; and 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 5,000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations. One of the largest toy companies in the world, our globally recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns, and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, BONKERS, and Gumi Yum Surprise. <h3>About The Role </h3> As a Junior AI Integration Engineer, you&#x27;ll work hands-on with business teams across ZURU to diagnose friction, build AI-powered tools, and ship them into production. From knowledge bots and workflow automations to campaign reporting agents and data analysis agents, your work will directly impact how thousands of people across ZURU get their jobs done every day.This role sits at the centre of ZURU&#x27;s AI transformation. You&#x27;ll run focused sprints with business units, translate real workflows into working AI tools, and hand off validated prototypes to the engineering team for production. This is a hands-on, build-and-ship role with real ownership from week one.You&#x27;ll work across business units spanning toys, consumer goods, tech and construction — in NZ, China, United States giving you visibility into shared problems and reusable patterns no single-team role would offer.Roles &amp; Responsibilities: <ul><li>Lead one-week focused sprints with business teams: shadow workflows, identify high-value automations, build a working PoC, and hand it off </li><li>Build AI-powered tools including knowledge bots, RAG systems, data analysis agents, campaign reporting tools, and custom web apps </li><li>Connect AI tools to business data sources via semantic models that make it easier for AI agents to query our data, Databricks, and MCP connections </li><li>Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, and modern CI&#x2F;CD practices </li><li>Design and build RAG systems across multiple business units, covering document ingestion, chunking, retrieval quality, and knowledge architecture </li><li>Facilitate hands-on workshops to upskill teams from beginner to self-serving with AI </li><li>Mentor team-level AI Champions and contribute to the shared skill library of Claude skills, templates, and how-to guides </li></ul>Skills &amp; Experience: <ul><li>Comfortable reading and writing code in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript </li><li>Comfortable using AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code </li><li>Experience building AI workflows </li><li>Strong understanding of modern LLM capabilities including agents, tool use, RAG, context engineering, and structured output </li><li>Ability to deconstruct complex business workflows and re-engineer them for automation </li><li>Strong communication skills, able to sit with business units across commercial, marketing, design, manufacturing, and finance, translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, run workshops, and present to senior leadership </li><li>Builder&#x27;s mentality, focused on creating scalable, repeatable solutions rather than ad-hoc fixes </li><li>Ability to take a problem from discovery through to working PoC </li></ul>Bonus: <ul><li>Exposure to Terraform, AWS, or similar cloud environments </li><li>Experience building data pipelines or working with semantic layers (dbt or similar) </li><li>Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, or retrieval systems </li><li>Hackathon, side project, or open-source contributions you can show us </li><li>End-to-end project experience (academic, personal, or professional) </li></ul>ABOUT ZURU ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).Known for its cutting-edge software and world-leading automation and manufacturing systems, ZURU has over 5,000 team members in over 30 global locations, making it perfectly placed to continue building its reputation as one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive companies in the world.At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com .WHAT WE OFFER🌱 Culture for Growth🧘 Health Benefits🌎 Global Opportunities💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team💰 Competitive Remuneration🍓  Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and moreZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀#LI-PK1ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

Junior AI Integration Engineer

Supply Chain Performance Lead – Data-Driven Operations and Logistics Optimization <h4>About ZURU </h4> ZURU is a reimagination company. We look for categories that have stood still, then we build next-generation products and brands that set the new standard. ZURU Toys is reimagining play. ZURU Edge is reinventing everyday consumer brands. Rhodes Pet Science is reimagining pet science. ZURU Tech is leading the next building revolution.ZURU started in 2003 with two brothers from New Zealand, and we&#x27;re still founder-owned and operated today. Since then we&#x27;ve become the world&#x27;s second-biggest privately held toy company, and nearly half of all Gen Y and Gen Z households with kids in the US own a ZURU product. Today we&#x27;re 5,000 people in 34 offices, selling into more than 150 markets, backed by over 100 acres of fully automated manufacturing. And we&#x27;re only getting started. <h4>Position Overview </h4> You will work cross-functionally with logistics, operations, commercial, and 3PL partners to identify logistics inefficiencies to improve routing, maximise container utilisation, and optimise fulfilment costs down to the SKU level. Your ability to deep dive into numbers, spot trends, and translate findings into executable strategies will be pivotal in driving ZURU’s global logistics competitiveness. <h4>Position Impact </h4> ZURU is on a mission to revolutionise the supply chain through data-driven operational excellence. As Supply Chain Performance Lead, you will be the analytical powerhouse driving cost and performance improvements across our post-production logistics network. This role will focus on transforming data into actionable insights across container packing, global freight, 3PL warehousing, and customer fulfilment operations globally for all ZURU Edge verticals (Beauty, Baby, Pet, Household &amp; Confectionary). Roles &amp; Responsibilities <h4>Post-Production Supply Chain Analysis &amp; Optimisation </h4> <ul><li>Conduct comprehensive analysis of end-to-end post-production logistics costs from factory pack-out to retailer distribution center delivery. </li><li>Evaluate container packing efficiency, identifying ways to maximize fill rates and minimize underutilized space. </li><li>Assess pallet build efficiency, seeking to optimize pallet TiHi and influence both container packing and storage footprint. </li><li>Analyze global freight costs across shipping trade lanes, considering routing efficiency, carrier performance, and cost per unit. </li><li>Review warehousing costs, including inbound handling, storage, and fulfillment (pick &amp; pack), ensuring cost-effective and scalable processes. </li><li>Investigate transport spend for drayage, line-haul, and last mile delivery to customer DCs to reduce inefficiencies and cost per order. </li><li>Translate cost data into actionable insights, supporting logistics network improvements. </li><li>Perform SKU-level cost-to-serve analysis to highlight cost drivers and optimization opportunities. </li></ul>KPI &amp; Dashboard Improvements <ul><li>Collaborate with in-house data team to improve dashboards that track logistics metrics (OTIF, cost per order&#x2F;unit, warehouse productivity, container utilization). </li><li>Establish a KPI framework for ongoing monitoring of global cost and service performance. </li></ul>Stakeholder Collaboration <ul><li>Work with internal teams (Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance) and external logistics partners to align on optimization initiatives. </li><li>Provide commercial teams with logistics cost insights for pricing and margin strategy support. </li></ul>Data-Driven Decision Support <ul><li>Translate complex datasets into clear recommendations for logistics leadership. </li><li>Build business cases quantifying the impact of supply chain improvements. </li></ul> <h4>Skills &amp; Experience </h4> <ul><li>Over five years of experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, or Operations Analysis. </li><li>Understanding of logistics workflow: container optimization, freight cost structures, 3PL operations, and fulfillment processes. </li><li>Analytical mindset with ability to spot cost inefficiencies and bottlenecks. </li><li>Proficiency in interpreting rate cards and conducting cost-to-serve analysis. </li><li>Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across teams and external partners. </li><li>Experience in high-volume, fast-paced supply chain environments is a strong advantage. </li><li>Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, logistics, business analytics, or related field. </li></ul> <h4>Who thrives at ZURU </h4> This isn&#x27;t a 9-to-5. We move fast, think big and set goals most companies would call impossible, then go after them. The people who thrive here are entrepreneurs at heart. They own their work, chase bold ideas and never stop raising the bar.At ZURU, you drive your career, and we give you the platform to take it as far as you can. There are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else, and you&#x27;ll be surrounded by talented people who make things happen. We&#x27;re a true meritocracy: we reward impact, not tenure. <h4>How we work </h4> Big ideas happen when great people work side by side, so we&#x27;re office-first by design. Being together means faster collaboration, sharper decisions and stronger teams, and it&#x27;s where the real learning happens. Some flexibility may be available depending on the role, location and business needs, but most roles are office-based.Want to see what life at ZURU really looks like? Follow LIFE@ZURU on Instagram or www.zuru.com ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

Supply Chain Performance Lead

We&#x27;re looking for a talented, curious UX&#x2F;UI Design Intern to join the Digital Design team at ZURU Group. You&#x27;ll work on the websites and internal tools that support our global brands. This internship gives you hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment, working alongside designers and developers to create digital experiences that are easy to use and look great. <h4>Who We Are </h4> ZURU is a reimagination company. We look for categories that have stood still, then we build next-generation products and brands that set the new standard. ZURU Toys is reimagining play. ZURU Edge is reinventing everyday consumer brands. Rhodes Pet Science is reimagining pet science. ZURU Tech is leading the next building revolution.ZURU started in 2003 with two brothers from New Zealand, and we&#x27;re still founder-owned and operated today. Since then we&#x27;ve become the world&#x27;s second-biggest privately held toy company, and nearly half of all Gen Y and Gen Z households with kids in the US own a ZURU product. Today we&#x27;re 5,000 people in 34 offices, selling into more than 150 markets, backed by over 100 acres of fully automated manufacturing. And we&#x27;re only getting started. <h4>WHAT YOU&#x27;LL BRING </h4> <ul><li>You&#x27;re currently studying, or have recently graduated, in UX&#x2F;UI, interaction design, digital design or a similar design-led tertiary programme</li><li>A portfolio that shows how you think: your process, the problem you were solving, and what you&#x27;d do differently, not just the finished screens</li><li>Good working knowledge of Figma (components, auto layout, prototyping). Experience with Adobe Creative Suite is a bonus</li><li>An understanding of UX fundamentals, including user flows, information architecture, wireframing, usability and accessibility (WCAG)</li><li>A strong eye for visual design, especially layout, typography, colour and hierarchy</li><li>Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain your design decisions and take on feedback</li><li>The ability to work on your own and as part of a team, and to follow direction from design leads</li><li>Strong attention to detail, tidy and well-organised files, and good time management</li><li>A problem-solving mindset and curiosity about how people actually use products</li><li>An added advantage: a basic understanding of HTML&#x2F;CSS, experience with design systems, motion or micro-interaction design, or experience using AI tools in your design workflow</li></ul> <h4>ROLES &amp; RESPONSIBILITIES </h4> <ul><li>UI Design: Help the team design interfaces across a range of projects, including:</li><li>Brand websites, landing pages and campaign microsites</li><li>Responsive layouts for mobile, tablet and desktop</li><li>Internal tools and dashboards</li><li>Digital assets such as web banners, or email templates</li><li>Presentations and design documentation in Figma</li><li>Other tasks management may assign from time to time</li><li>UX &amp; Research: Help map user journeys, build sitemaps and wireframes, review competitors, and run or support simple usability tests</li><li>Prototyping: Build interactive prototypes in Figma to test ideas and present concepts to stakeholders</li><li>Design Systems: Work within existing component libraries and UI kits, and help maintain and extend them to keep things consistent across brands</li><li>Conceptualisation: Brainstorm and develop design ideas with the team, and explore several directions before refining one</li><li>Developer Handoff: Prepare clean, well-annotated files, specs and assets so the developers can build what was designed</li><li>Collaboration: Work with developers, marketers, content creators and brand teams to understand requirements and deliver designs that meet business goals</li><li>Accessibility &amp; Quality: Design with accessibility in mind, and check builds against designs to make sure the quality holds up</li><li>File Management: Keep Figma files, pages and assets organised and well named so the whole team can find what they need</li><li>Feedback Incorporation: Be open to feedback, iterate quickly, and keep improving your designs based on critique and user insight</li><li>Time Management: Manage several projects and deadlines at once, understand briefs clearly, and deliver work on time</li><li>Research &amp; Trends: Keep up with UX&#x2F;UI trends, emerging patterns, tools and AI-assisted workflows, and bring new ideas to the team</li></ul> Please note applications for this internship close on November 30th. Applicants moving to the next stage will be contacted after this date. <h4>Who thrives at ZURU </h4> This isn&#x27;t a 9-to-5. We move fast, think big and set goals most companies would call impossible, then go after them. The people who thrive here are entrepreneurs at heart. They own their work, chase bold ideas and never stop raising the bar.At ZURU, you drive your career, and we give you the platform to take it as far as you can. There are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else, and you&#x27;ll be surrounded by talented people who make things happen. We&#x27;re a true meritocracy: we reward impact, not tenure. <h4>How we work </h4> Big ideas happen when great people work side by side, so we&#x27;re office-first by design. Being together means faster collaboration, sharper decisions and stronger teams, and it&#x27;s where the real learning happens. Some flexibility may be available depending on the role, location and business needs, but most roles are office-based.Want to see what life at ZURU really looks like? Follow LIFE@ZURU on Instagram or www.zuru.com ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 #LI-PK1ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

UX/UI Design Intern

<h4>Who We Are </h4> ZURU is a reimagination company. We look for categories that have stood still, then we build next-generation products and brands that set the new standard. ZURU Toys is reimagining play. ZURU Edge is reinventing everyday consumer brands. Rhodes Pet Science is reimagining pet science. ZURU Tech is leading the next building revolution.ZURU started in 2003 with two brothers from New Zealand, and we&#x27;re still founder-owned and operated today. Since then we&#x27;ve become the world&#x27;s second-biggest privately held toy company, and nearly half of all Gen Y and Gen Z households with kids in the US own a ZURU product. Today we&#x27;re 5,000 people in 34 offices, selling into more than 150 markets, backed by over 100 acres of fully automated manufacturing. And we&#x27;re only getting started. <h4>The Opportunity </h4> Own global IT Operations for ZURU: employee technology, service delivery, infrastructure and business systems.Keep core systems available: outages are measured in minutes, never days.Stay at the front of agent-first IT, and bring ZURU the newest tools before anyone asks.Lead from the dance floor, not the balcony: automate, fix and ship with the team every week. <h4>The Impact You&#x27;ll Make </h4> Within 30 days, ship a service win a named business owner can measure.Every week, report core-system availability and demo automation clearing real requests.Within 90 days, every region runs on 1 scorecard you set, led by availability. <h4>What You&#x27;ll Do </h4> Direction and pace <ul><li>Set global IT strategy, scorecard, budget and suppliers. </li><li>Make 10 fast decisions to get 7 right, and kill what doesn&#x27;t work. </li></ul>Dance floor leadership <ul><li>Take the hardest incidents and automations yourself. </li><li>Lead from the work, not from status reports. </li></ul>Experts leading experts <ul><li>Lead regional and functional IT leaders, including China. </li><li>Raise talent density and hold them to pace. </li></ul>Business partnership <ul><li>Sit with business leaders and agree the service that matters most. </li></ul>Agent-first IT <ul><li>Rebuild IT operations around automation and agents. </li><li>Cut repeat incidents and let agents clear routine requests end to end. </li></ul>Resilience and security <ul><li>Test backup and recovery against business needs. </li><li>Apply security standards without over-engineering. </li></ul>Leadership team <ul><li>Sit on the Group Tech, Data &amp; AI leadership team as a peer to business leaders. </li><li>Debate hard, commit, and deputise for the Group Head. </li></ul> <h4>What You&#x27;ll Bring </h4> <ul><li>Experience leading IT leaders across regions, including China, with ownership of the function&#x27;s strategy and budget. </li><li>Track record of measurable business wins within weeks of taking on a function. </li><li>Current, hands-on automation of service workflows through APIs, scripting or AI agents. </li><li>Experience running enterprise identity, endpoints, networks and cloud or datacentre infrastructure at scale. </li><li>Experience owning availability, incident response, tested recovery and supplier performance for business-critical systems. </li></ul> <h4>Who thrives at ZURU </h4> This isn&#x27;t a 9-to-5. We move fast, think big and set goals most companies would call impossible, then go after them. The people who thrive here are entrepreneurs at heart. They own their work, chase bold ideas and never stop raising the bar.At ZURU, you drive your career, and we give you the platform to take it as far as you can. There are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else, and you&#x27;ll be surrounded by talented people who make things happen. We&#x27;re a true meritocracy: we reward impact, not tenure. <h4>How we work </h4> Big ideas happen when great people work side by side, so we&#x27;re office-first by design. Being together means faster collaboration, sharper decisions and stronger teams, and it&#x27;s where the real learning happens. Some flexibility may be available depending on the role, location and business needs, but most roles are office-based.Want to see what life at ZURU really looks like? Follow LIFE@ZURU on Instagram or www.zuru.com ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

IT Operations Director

Own how ZURU&#x27;s brands sound, from global packaging to every market we sell in About ZURUZURU 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, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com. Role ImpactYou will own brand copywriting across our portfolio and set the standard for how our brands sound on pack, on screen, and in market. You&#x27;ll write copy for global packaging, set brand guidelines, and lead a small team delivering copy across brands and markets. This role suits a senior communicator with a proven writing and editing background: someone who can bring a brand to life through copy and who has the eye for detail to be the final sign-off on global packaging. Roles &amp; ResponsibilitiesBrand Copywriting <ul><li>Write copy for global packaging, product claims and brand taglines that cut through on shelf and deliver the brand&#x27;s strategic direction</li><li>Develop effective claims and trademarked technology names for ZURU Group&#x27;s brands: compelling, evidence-backed statements that highlight product benefits, differentiate from competitors and resonate with consumers&#x27; needs and values</li><li>Edit and elevate copy produced across the team, ensuring it is accurate, well-researched and achieves brand and marketing objectives across packaging, point of sale, social media, print, video and presentations</li></ul> Brand Voice &amp; Standards <ul><li>Partner with the strategy and branding teams to create and implement brand guidelines, translating brand platforms, positioning and personality into tone of voice, brand pillars, taglines and brand stories</li><li>Hold every brand to those guidelines, keeping tone, messaging and branding consistent across on-pack and marketing communications, for every ZURU vertical and market</li><li>Build and maintain communication frameworks for each brand, along with usage, warning and directional copy guidelines</li><li>Maintain brand fact sheets (product names, variants and approved claims from NPD, Legal and Regulatory) for use in FAQs, customer service handbooks and brand communication frameworks</li><li>Present and articulate brand communication strategies and recommendations to internal stakeholders</li></ul> Team &amp; Process <ul><li>Lead, mentor and develop a small team of writers, including an intern, setting the standard for best-in-class work and giving the feedback that helps them reach it</li><li>Own the end-to-end copy creation and briefing process, keeping copy flowing efficiently to the design team</li><li>Work with the Packaging Communications Manager to manage the copy translation workflow with third-party providers, ensuring localised market copy is accurate, on brand and correctly incorporated into artwork</li><li>Review, approve and sign off all packaging artwork across every market before dispatch to print, covering layout, tone of voice, accuracy and brand consistency</li><li>Partner with Regulatory and Compliance to set communication standards, and ensure all claims and on-pack language meet market-specific regulatory requirements</li></ul> Skills &amp; Experience<ul><li>Minimum 10 years&#x27; experience in a communications, copywriting or editing role, preferably within FMCG</li><li>Outstanding writing and editing skills, with forensic attention to detail</li><li>Experience owning brand voice across a portfolio, and writing to established brand platforms</li><li>Understanding of consumer behaviour, messaging hierarchies and how to write commercially minded copy that cuts through crowded categories</li><li>Experience with packaging or regulated copy, including claims and compliance-sensitive language, is desirable</li><li>Experience managing, mentoring and developing writers</li><li>Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to work under pressure and run multiple brands, markets and projects simultaneously</li><li>Creative thinker with a strategic mindset</li></ul> LIFE@ZURUZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction). At ZURU, 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. At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else. Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com. WHAT WE OFFER 🌱 Culture for Growth🧘 Health Benefits🌎 Global Opportunities💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team💰 Competitive Remuneration🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional) ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

Copy & Communications Lead

About ZURUZURU 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, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com. Role OverviewThe Junior IT Support Engineer is responsible for providing day-to-day local and remote IT support to business users across supported regions. Working within a shared support model alongside the Senior IT Engineer, this role supports end users, office operations, device management, and service desk activities. The role focuses on responsive user support, operational reliability, and continuous learning within a collaborative IT environment. Position ImpactThis role supports the efficiency and productivity of business operations by delivering timely IT support and maintaining stable user-facing IT services. The position contributes to smooth onboarding, daily IT operations, and positive user experience across local and remote offices. The role also strengthens operational capacity within the Auckland IT support function and supports regional collaboration with global IT teams Roles &amp; Responsibilities <ul><li>Provide local and remote IT support for users across NZ, AU and other supported regions</li><li>Support hardware, software, Microsoft 365, and user access related issues</li><li>Manage and support laptops, desktops, printers, meeting rooms, and office IT equipment</li><li>Work within a shared support ticket pool alongside Senior IT Support Engineers</li><li>Handle support tickets with timely updates, troubleshooting, and escalation where required</li><li>Support onboarding&#x2F;offboarding activities, device setup, and user account configuration</li><li>Assist with remote support tasks in collaboration with IT Shared Services (ITSC)</li><li>Maintain IT asset records and support documentation updates</li><li>Support office IT operations and user experience improvements</li><li>Contribute to continuous improvement of IT support processes and knowledge sharing</li></ul> Skills &amp; Experience<ul><li>1–3 years experience in IT support or strong entry-level technical capability</li><li>Familiarity with Windows operating systems and Microsoft 365</li><li>Basic understanding of networking and endpoint support</li><li>Strong communication and customer service mindset</li><li>Willingness to learn, collaborate, and grow within IT operations</li></ul> LIFE@ZURUZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction). At ZURU, 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. At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else. Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com. WHAT WE OFFER <ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth</li><li>🧘 Health Benefits</li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities</li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team</li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration</li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional)</li></ul> ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 ZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.

Junior IT Support Engineer

As a Junior Data and AI Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines that power real business decisions across ZURU’s global operations. Working with modern tools like Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, and AWS, you’ll gain end-to-end exposure to data systems while contributing to scalable, production-grade infrastructure. This is a hands-on role with real ownership from day one.This role plays a key part in enabling data-driven decision-making across ZURU’s global business. By building reliable pipelines, improving data quality, and supporting platform scalability, you directly impact commercial, marketing, and logistics performance. Your work ensures teams can trust and act on data, while contributing to the long-term evolution of ZURU’s data platform and AI capabilities. Roles &amp; Responsibilities: <ul><li>Build and maintain data pipelines ingesting data from SAP, retail POS systems, logistics platforms, and marketing channels </li><li>Migrate legacy pipelines into scalable, maintainable modern data architectures </li><li>Monitor and improve data quality, identifying issues before they impact the business </li><li>Support and enhance data platform infrastructure and tooling </li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable datasets and insights </li><li>Contribute to end-to-end data workflows including ingestion, transformation, and governance </li><li>Document processes, pipelines, and learnings clearly </li><li>Continuously improve workflows using automation and AI tools </li></ul> What You Bring To ZURU Skills &amp; Experience: <ul><li>Strong SQL skills (joins, window functions, CTEs) </li><li>Experience using Python for scripts, pipelines, or automation </li><li>Understanding of data pipelines and common failure points </li><li>Ability to learn quickly, solve problems, and work with ambiguity </li><li>Strong communication skills, including asking questions and documenting solutions </li></ul>Bonus: <ul><li>Experience with dbt, Spark, or cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) </li><li>Exposure to AWS or similar cloud environments </li><li>End-to-end data project experience (academic, personal, or professional) </li></ul>Think you’ve got what it takes? Apply now and tell us your story. LIFE@ZURU ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge, and ZURU Tech.At ZURU, we foster a high-performing culture that encourages growth, ownership, and continuous improvement. You are responsible for driving your career, and we provide the platform to accelerate it.Learn more at www.zuru.com WHAT WE OFFER <ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li></ul>ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 #LI-AJ1

Junior Data & AI Engineer

Own the data platform behind a global business, shape how ZURU uses data and AI, and build systems that directly drive real-world decisions. <h4>About ZURU</h4> 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, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com . <h4>YOUR ROLE </h4> As a Data &amp; AI Engineer, you&#x27;ll own data pipelines that power real business decisions across ZURU&#x27;s global operations. Working with Databricks, dbt, Fivetran and AWS, you&#x27;ll design and run production systems end to end, from ingestion through to the models the business actually reports on. You&#x27;ll take full ownership of your domains and help shape how the platform evolves.This role sits at the centre of data-driven decision-making at ZURU. You&#x27;ll build reliable, well-modelled data products, drive up data quality, and make the platform easier and safer for everyone to build on. Your work determines whether commercial, marketing and logistics teams can trust and act on their numbers, and you&#x27;ll have a direct hand in the direction of ZURU&#x27;s data platform and AI capability. <h4>CORE RESPONSIBILITIES </h4> <ul><li>Design, build and own production data pipelines ingesting from SAP, retail POS systems, logistics platforms and marketing channels </li><li>Lead migrations of legacy pipelines into modern, scalable architectures, including the design decisions and cutover plan </li><li>Model data for analytics and AI use cases, setting the standards others follow </li><li>Build observability, testing and alerting into pipelines so issues surface before the business finds them </li><li>Improve platform infrastructure and tooling, and reduce operational toil through automation </li><li>Partner directly with commercial, marketing and logistics stakeholders to turn ambiguous asks into well-scoped datasets </li><li>Review others&#x27; work and mentor junior engineers on SQL, Python and pipeline design </li></ul>Contribute to governance, documentation and platform standards, and to AI-assisted workflows across the team <ul><li> </li></ul><h4>SKILLS &amp; EXPERIENCE REQUIRED </h4> <ul><li>3+ years of experience building and running data pipelines in production </li><li>Advanced SQL, including performance tuning on large datasets </li><li>Strong Python for pipelines, automation and tooling, with a working knowledge of software engineering practice (version control, testing, code review) </li><li>Hands-on experience with dbt and a cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift) </li><li>Proven experience with orchestration, and a track record of debugging and hardening pipelines that fail in production </li><li>Comfortable owning delivery end to end and working through ambiguity without close direction </li></ul>Clear communicator who documents decisions and can explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders <ul><li> </li></ul><h4>Bonus </h4> <ul><li>Spark, streaming, or large-scale distributed processing </li><li>AWS (or equivalent) and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform </li><li>CI&#x2F;CD for data, data contracts, or data quality frameworks </li><li>Exposure to LLM or AI-driven data workflows </li><li>Experience mentoring engineers or leading a workstream </li></ul> <h5>LIFE@ZURU </h5> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com .WHAT WE OFFER<ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional) </li></ul>ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀

Data & AI Engineer

Start your global commercial career at ZURU: drive global growth, partner with the world’s biggest retailers, and turn bold ambition into real impact.As a Commercial Graduate you will play a critical role in shaping how we expand and execute our brands successfully across the globe, from growing our retail footprint through to levelling our commercial proposals and establishing central best practices to maximise revenue and profitability. Critical to success will be leveraging your understanding of ZURU’s Business Development and commercial processes created and set by the Co-Founder, Nick Mowbray. The application of these processes, the category expertise you develop and the entrepreneurial mindset you bring will play a central role in driving the performance of the business globally. You will help ensure that we maximise new opportunities and consolidate our existing relationships with retailers, so we can continue to outperform our competitors.Please note we are looking for someone to start in this role as soon as possible. Roles &amp; Responsibilities <ul><li>Leverage understanding of ZURU&#x27;s business development principles, including the Pillars of persuasion and Customer touch points to drive global distribution. </li><li>Partner with ZURU’s Supply, Merchandising, Design and Factory teams (based in China) acting as a conduit for front end sales teams to ZUR’s back end in China. Work with all teams to problem solve as issues arise doing so by leveraging your deep understanding of ZURU’s internal organisational structure, processes and teams. </li><li>Drive execution of the global go-to-market plan and ongoing business management strategy to ensure longevity of our brands and business and establish strong retailer partnerships </li><li>Ensure effective execution of launches into new customers and markets identifying new opportunities for expansion beyond launch phase. </li><li>Champion ZURU’s continuous improvement mindset, constantly seeking ways to optimise the business unit and improve the overall performance of our brands. </li><li>Support commercial negotiations with customers (new and existing), leveraging ZURU’s commercial framework and principles. This will also include development of volume forecasts and profitability. </li><li>Be the expert on your brands and categories, preparing global brand content for sales decks. Present brand strategy to customers. </li><li>Collaborate with Account teams to develop comprehensive e-commerce plans to optimise local performance </li><li>Support on the annual planning and forecast process for, building up the global P&amp;L from territory-specific plans </li><li>Co-ordinate with Supply &amp; Demand teams to ensure consistent supply of inventory to maximise in stocks and achieve high OTIF score. </li><li>Act as a conduit between Central and Global teams for product information &amp; product development timelines </li><li>Collaborate closely with all functions of the business including Merchandising, Planning, Design and Finance </li><li>Commercial &amp; business acumen, strategic thinking and problem-solving </li><li>Must demonstrate ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams, while holding stakeholders accountable to deliver. </li><li>Strong communication &amp; influencing skills, with the ability to translate messages across a variety of internal and external stakeholders. </li><li>A go-getter with energy, creativity and determination to continuously improve and push boundaries. Strong solutions-focussed mindset, with high levels of resilience &amp; passion. </li></ul>LIFE@ZURU ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction). At ZURU, 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. At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else. Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com . WHAT WE OFFER ·      🌱 Culture for Growth ·      🌎 Global Opportunities ·      💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 #LI-AJ1

Commercial Graduate

<h4>About ZURU</h4> 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 recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com <h4>Role Purpose: </h4> Hiring the best people is ZURU&#x27;s number one priority. ZURU has built two Talent Acquisition operations: one out of New Zealand, supporting hires across NZ, Australia, the Americas and Europe, and one out of China. The opportunity now is to bring them together as one global function, with shared standards, shared data and a genuine pipeline strategy built to match ZURU&#x27;s hypergrowth.One Director will own that vision: one global TA strategy, one set of frameworks, and a team resourced and specialized to move ZURU toward proactive, pipeline-led hiring. This role has real scope to design, influence and build a global TA function from the ground up, something ZURU has never had before. <h4>Core Roles and Responsibilities: </h4> Global Strategy and Leadership <ul><li>Own TA strategy end to end across International and China, leading the China TA Managers and International TA Managers to one global standard rather than two disconnected models. </li><li>Support the business to get in front of their TA needs as the business grows over 30% year on year. </li><li>Bring consistency to how ZURU hires everywhere, so a role, a process and a candidate experience mean the same thing whether the hire is in Auckland or Shenzhen. </li><li>Give leaders clear direction and the support to execute at pace, without taking over their day-to-day delivery. </li></ul>Structure, Ways of Working and Resourcing <ul><li>Review how the TA function operates today, structure, team roles, processes, KPIs across both International and China, and decide the best course to keep up with ZURU’s pace and the recruitment challenges we’re facing right now. </li><li>Design the resourcing model to match where ZURU is growing. </li><li>Build out the frameworks, processes and standards to support mass adoption. </li><li>Empower hiring managers to do more of the process themselves, by providing a clear framework and training that build their capability. </li><li>Refine TA systems and tools to enable new TA team members to onboard and become effective faster. </li></ul>Early Careers and Campus <ul><li>Make sure ZURU&#x27;s early careers and campus recruitment are set up to succeed: the teams running internships, graduate and campus programmes have clear direction, the right structure and what they need to deliver. This role steers and enables it rather than executing it. </li><li>Set the global standard and share learnings across regions, so a strong programme in one market lifts the others rather than staying local. </li><li>Drive continuous improvement, so early careers keeps building a deliberate pipeline of future talent and raises the bar as ZURU grows. </li></ul>Employer Brand and Marketing Partnership <ul><li>Partner closely with Marketing to bring a marketing lens to talent: joint campaigns, storytelling and creative that sell ZURU as a place to build a career, not just job adverts. </li><li>Drive ZURU&#x27;s employer brand globally, with particular focus on the markets where we do not yet have a strong brand presence, so we can win the best people in places that do not already know us. </li><li>Put ZURU&#x27;s brand, channels and creative firepower to work for talent the way they already work for our consumer brands, so we show up as boldly to candidates as we do to customers. </li><li>Own ZURU&#x27;s employer value proposition and candidate experience in every market, so the best people know who we are and want in. </li></ul>Sourcing and Pipeline <ul><li>Build a genuine sourcing and pipeline function, so ZURU is building relationships with strong candidates before a role opens. </li><li>Shift the function’s posture from reactive to proactive. </li></ul>AI and the Future of Talent Acquisition <ul><li>Actively assess how AI is likely to reshape Talent Acquisition over the next one to two years, sourcing, screening, scheduling, assessment and bring AI into day-to-day delivery now: automate the admin and repetitive work across both regions. </li></ul>Accountability <ul><li>Drive accountability across the whole function: real KPIs, forecasting and reporting that let Talent Acquisition operate with the discipline of a business function, not a service desk. </li><li>Coach and develop Managers to grow into director-level capability themselves. </li></ul> <h4>Skills and Experience Required: </h4> <ul><li>A track record leading Talent Acquisition at scale across multiple countries, ideally including experience bridging Western and Chinese or Greater China markets. </li><li>Proven experience reviewing and redesigning how a TA function operates, structure, ways of working and resourcing, to keep pace with fast-changing hiring demand. </li><li>Strong command of TA data, reporting and forecasting. </li><li>Genuine interest in how AI is changing recruitment, and the judgement to decide what that means for team structure and roles and how we can move faster. </li><li>Experience coaching and building hiring manager capability to empower them to do more themselves. </li><li>Comfortable holding both strategy and delivery scope at once, in a lean team. </li><li>Genuine willingness to travel to China regularly to build one unified team. </li><li>Sees possibility where others see complexity, and thrives in the space between strategy and execution. </li><li>Builds strong relationships and credibility quickly, and is energized by growth and change. </li></ul> <h5>LIFE@ZURU </h5> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out LIFE@ZURU on Instagram or www.zuru.com WHAT WE OFFER<ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, Pals fridge and more </li></ul>ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 #LI-KM1

Global Talent Acquisition Director

<h4>About ZURU</h4> 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, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com . <h4>Position Overview </h4> This role owns how ZURU builds software for itself — the paved path engineers build on, and every internal application that ships on it. The Engineering Lead founds the Engineering function serving the Group internally, covering developer platform, forward deployed engineering, and reliability and cloud. One owner holds both the road and the traffic — because a road nobody drives on is not a road. The lead builds the team, sets the bar, and publishes capability other teams consume rather than gating their work. <h4>Position Impact </h4> At 6 months, the paved path ships as a product teams choose — with golden-path adoption and time to production both measured and moving — and the first forward deployed engineers are placed with the business units they serve.At 12 months and beyond, the internal application estate runs honest in both directions — applications graduate onto a supported rota and applications retire. Ungraduated applications per engineer stays inside the ceiling that keeps forward deployed engineers forward, and the Group&#x27;s ask-to-live median — the business days from an accepted ask to the thing live in the asker&#x27;s hands — has shortened. Who you are: An engineering leader who has built internal software other employees used day to day, run a platform or developer-experience team measured on adoption rather than throughput, and hired an engineering function from the ground up. You&#x27;re fluent in agentic development — you judge the quality of the output, not only the velocity. You&#x27;ve owned production reliability for systems your team did not write. You hold both the road and the traffic, because you know one without the other doesn&#x27;t work. <h4>Key Responsibilities </h4> The Paved Path <ul><li>Ship CI&#x2F;CD, scaffolding, deployment, observability, and guardrails as a product — resolved into the repository rather than written into a standards document. </li><li>Measured on how many teams take it, not how many documents describe it. </li></ul>Forward Deployed Engineering <ul><li>Build and lead a team that sits with the business unit it serves — not pooled in an office. </li><li>One engineer validates an idea, builds it, and holds it until it graduates. </li></ul>The Internal Application Estate <ul><li>Decide what graduates onto a supported rota, what is absorbed into the packaged estate, and what is retired. </li><li>Every application carries a named business owner and a retirement date. </li></ul>Reliability &amp; Cloud <ul><li>Own the runtime foundations, the observability layer, and the on-call rota that holds applications after the engineer who built them moves on. </li></ul>Automated Standards <ul><li>Build standards into the work so they are checked on every change — with the result recorded and attributable. </li><li>A rule with no check that runs is not a rule. </li></ul>The Build Seam <ul><li>Hold the line between Engineering, which builds, and Enterprise Technology, which runs the packaged estate. </li><li>Hand work across it when it belongs there. </li></ul> <h5>LIFE@ZURU </h5> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com . WHAT WE OFFER <ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional) </li></ul> ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀

Engineering Lead

<h4>About ZURU</h4> 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, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com . <h4>Position Overview </h4> This is the founding SRE role for ZURU&#x27;s internal application estate — the reliability function that lets an application outlive the engineer who built it. ZURU&#x27;s internal engineers sit with the business units they serve and build fast. This role is how what they build stays up. Working as one of a pair — Auckland and China, covering the estate follow-the-sun — you&#x27;re not joining a reliability function. You&#x27;re designing it. <h4>Position Impact </h4> At 6 months, the graduation gate runs as a pipeline job, the runtime foundations are hardened and published so every new build inherits them, and the first applications have moved off the engineers who built them onto a supported rota.At 12 months and beyond, the estate gets quieter rather than busier. Applications graduate and retire each quarter, ungraduated applications per engineer stays inside the ceiling the whole model depends on, and mean time to restore and change-fail rate both trend down — because repeat failures are fixed in the shared capability package rather than in a runbook. <h4>Who you are: </h4> An engineer who has carried a pager for systems other people wrote — and made that sustainable rather than heroic. You&#x27;re strong on AWS, hands-on with observability, and you automate your way out of toil rather than adding a runbook entry. You&#x27;ve written an SLO that actually changed a decision. You don&#x27;t need a reliability function to already exist — you&#x27;re here to build one. <h4>Key Responsibilities </h4> The Graduation Gate <ul><li>Own the automated checks an application passes to join the supported estate: on the paved path, observability wired, an SLO defined, alerts routed to a rota, reproducible from a clean clone. </li><li>Run them as a pipeline job, not a meeting. </li></ul>Runtime Foundations <ul><li>Harden and publish AWS across Lambda, ECS, EKS, and Terraform — with Temporal for durable workflows — so every new build inherits them from day one. </li></ul>Observability by Default <ul><li>Wire Open Telemetry from day one into a single telemetry layer. </li><li>Define SLOs with each application&#x27;s business owner in terms they would notice breaching. </li></ul>Agent-First Incident Response <ul><li>Design the loop where an agent drafts the fix and a human approves it. </li><li>Build incident response that scales without scaling the team. </li></ul>Fixes That Stay Fixed <ul><li>Push every repeat failure into the capability package every repository consumes — so every future build inherits the fix, rather than adding a runbook entry. </li><li>Make the estate quieter over time, not louder. </li></ul> <h5>LIFE@ZURU </h5> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com . WHAT WE OFFER <ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional) </li></ul> ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀

Site Reliability Engineer

<h4>About ZURU </h4> 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 recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com <h4>Role Purpose: </h4> ZURU has never had this role before, which makes it about as blank a canvas as it gets: coordinate and run ZURU&#x27;s first structured training operation, built from scratch with the support and leadership from the International People &amp; Culture Director. If you want a role where you can build something from zero and see your fingerprints on it, this is it.The Training Specialist owns the coordination and administration of ZURU&#x27;s training calendar: working with the International People &amp; Culture Director, the OD Director, and subject matter experts and external speakers across the business, who design and facilitate their own sessions, to schedule, brief and support delivery. Design and facilitation for specialist content sit with the people who know it best; this role makes sure every session happens, lands well, and is housed in one central place, giving every team member the best possible learning experience. <h4>Core Roles and Responsibilities: </h4> Program Coordination and Administration <ul><li>Own the end-to-end training calendar across every program, from scheduling, invites and room and tech bookings, to turning direction from the International People &amp; Culture Director and OD Director into ready-to-run sessions, facilitating where needed so everything lands without a hitch. </li><li>Help source, brief and coordinate internal subject matter experts and external speakers who will design and facilitate specialist sessions, partnering with the right expert for each topic. </li><li>Own a single, central repository for all training materials, recordings and resources, so every team member has one place to go and the best possible learning experience. How that gets housed is open for review, and this role is well placed to recommend the best way to do it. </li><li>Set and manage the cadence for reviewing, refreshing and retiring content, so what&#x27;s live is always current and relevant. </li></ul>Continuous Improvement <ul><li>Actively look for opportunities to automate the admin load: scheduling, reminders, attendance tracking, content tagging and the manual work that eats into time better spent on people, not paperwork. </li><li>Use AI tools to help draft communications, summarise feedback and keep the training repository organized, so this role shifts away from heavy admin over time rather than growing into more of it as the program scales. </li><li>Own the telemetry - track attendance, engagement and impact across every program and feed insights back to the International People &amp; Culture Director, internal experts and speakers to keep improving every session. </li><li>Keep everything in ZURU Academy as ‘the single source of truth’ — each module marked complete and leader-reviewed, not tested — with formal assessment against a rubric only where a capability is high-stakes (e.g. pitching). </li><li>Embed ZURU&#x27;s DNA and radical candour approach into how every session is coordinated, whether it&#x27;s run by an internal expert, an external speaker or the Specialist directly, so it reinforces the culture we are building. </li></ul> <h4>Skills and Experience Required: </h4> <ul><li>Strong program coordination and administration experience: comfortable owning a busy, varied calendar across different stakeholders, time zones and formats. </li><li>Confidence chasing down internal experts, external speakers and business leaders, and holding them to a schedule without losing the relationship. </li><li>Genuine enthusiasm for using AI to automate admin-heavy work, always looking for a faster or smarter way to handle logistics so more time goes to people, not process. </li><li>Comfort with LMS or content platforms, keeping sessions recorded, tagged and easy to find, plus enough facilitation confidence to run simple, standardized sessions when needed. This isn&#x27;t a design-heavy or facilitation-heavy role; that sits with subject matter experts and the International Director. </li><li>A practical, get-it-done mindset and genuine attention to detail. </li><li>Alignment with ZURU&#x27;s DNA: happy to challenge the standard corporate training playbook and build something that fits how ZURU works. </li><li>Enjoys creating rather than maintaining, and is energized by growth and change. Builds strong relationships and credibility quickly with people leaders, internal experts and speakers at every level. </li></ul> <h5>LIFE@ZURU </h5> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out LIFE@ZURU on Instagram or www.zuru.com WHAT WE OFFER<ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, Pals fridge and more </li></ul>ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀 #LI-KM1

Training Specialist

<h4>Your Role</h4> You will be part of one of the fastest growing consumer goods companies in the world with over US$3bn in revenue, and a plan to grow to $14bn by 2030. You will turn financial and commercial data into business insight that drives decisions across the Group — revenue, cost, margin, and everything between. You will partner with business teams, support ZURU&#x27;s forecasting and planning cycles, and work with the data and AI tools that are transforming how Finance at ZURU works. <h4>How You Will Make An Impact</h4> As a naturally AI curious and analytical person, you will work to distill complex financial and commercial data into clear, action-oriented analysis that informs decisions at the most senior level. Working directly alongside the Global FP&amp;A Manager in Auckland, you will support performance reporting and planning across all of ZURU&#x27;s divisions and collaborate with commercial, functional, and global finance teams to understand what is driving the numbers. You will drive efficiency by living in AI, leveraging off a team of AI specialists, to continually optimise our reporting and financial analysis. The role deliberately grows with you, so you will be learning at a pace unseen by any other NZ business. <h4>Core Roles and Responsibilities</h4> • Transitioning Excel reports into automated AI reports that deliver business insights real time.• Partner with commercial and functional teams across ZURU to understand what is driving performance, gather the context behind the numbers, and support decisions with clear financial analysis.• Analyse financial and commercial data — revenue, cost, margin, headcount — to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement across departments and business units.• Support the monthly management reporting process: performance reporting, variance analysis, and clear narratives that distil complex data into actionable insight for senior leadership.• Assist in the preparation of the quarterly rolling forecast, annual budget, and longer-range plans: collect business inputs, challenge assumptions, and build and maintain the underlying models and consolidations.• Prepare ad-hoc analysis and business cases for the FP&amp;A Manager and senior leadership.• Support broader Group Finance activities as priorities evolve — including P&amp;L and balance sheet reviews, month-end reporting, and other key Finance initiatives across the team.• Build strong working relationships and knowledge with ZURU&#x27;s global finance teams, including our China-based finance team, developing a solid understanding of how the numbers are produced.• Continuously improve Finance&#x27;s processes, data, and reporting: help automate recurring work, build self-serve datasets and reporting, and standardise templates and definitions across divisions — leveraging AI tools as a core part of how the team operates.• Champion ZURU&#x27;s continuous-improvement mindset: constantly seek ways to optimise how Finance works and challenge the status quo. <h4>Skills &amp; Experience Required</h4> • A degree in finance, accounting, economics, commerce, information systems, or data analytics (CA pathway supported), but most importantly the right mindset to win and develop in an entrepreneurial high performance culture.• Strong Excel and financial modelling aptitude — and genuine curiosity and a keen-to-learn mindset for new tools: ZURU&#x27;s Finance team works extensively with AI, and willingness to learn matters more than any specific software.• Commercial acumen and analytical instinct: you notice when a number cannot be right, and can say why in one sentence.• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear messages for a variety of stakeholders — your work will be read at senior leadership level.• A go-getter with energy, creativity and determination to continuously improve and push boundaries; a solutions-focused mindset with high levels of resilience, positivity and humility.• Role is required to be based full time out of ZURU&#x27;s headquarters in New Zealand to optimise training and learning opportunities. <h4>About ZURU</h4> 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, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more!For more information, visit www.zuru.com .LIFE@ZURU: instagram.com&#x2F;lifeatzuru At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won&#x27;t find anywhere else.We recognise that ZURU&#x27;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. <h4>What We Offer</h4> • Culture for Growth• Surrounded by an A Player Team• Competitive RemunerationZURU – Tomorrow Reimagined zuru.com #LI-AJ1

Financial Analyst 

<h4>About ZURU</h4> 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 recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more! For more information, visit www.zuru.com . <h5>Position Overview </h5> This role builds software for ZURU&#x27;s own teams — sited inside a business unit rather than a central engineering office. The Junior Engineer owns one problem end to end, from the first conversation with the person who has it to the thing running in production. There is no spec handoff. The business owner names the outcome with the engineer sitting next to them. A separate organization owns ZURU&#x27;s external product engineering — this role is internal.Position Impact At 6 months, the engineer reaches a Go&#x2F;No-Go decision with the business inside 5 days of assignment, has shipped at least one application that reached its target users, and holds no more than 3 ungraduated applications.At 12 months and beyond, the engineer&#x27;s work shortens the Group&#x27;s ask-to-live median — the business days from an accepted ask to the thing live in the asker&#x27;s hands. Applications reach measured weekly-active adoption against their target population, and each one takes a clean exit — graduating onto the supported estate, retiring, or moving to the team that runs packaged systems.Who you are: You can sit with a finance, sales, or operations team and work out what they actually do. You direct coding agents well and can tell when the output is wrong. You read and reason about code, and you ship working software — not prototypes. You&#x27;ve built something another person went on to use. Engineering years are not the bar — candidates from finance, sales, or operations who can direct an agent against a standard are in scope.Key Responsibilities Discovery in Place <ul><li>Work inside the business unit and find the context nobody wrote down — the spreadsheet, the manual join, the workaround everyone stopped noticing. </li></ul>Validation in Days <ul><li>Drive to a Go&#x2F;No-Go decision with the business inside 5 days of assignment. </li><li>The artifact sits on the paved path from the first commit — so a no costs a week rather than a project. </li></ul>Build on the Rails <ul><li>Start every build on the internal tooling that resolves current standards and their automated checks into the repository. </li><li>The standards live in the work, not in a review meeting. </li></ul>End-to-End Ownership <ul><li>Validate, build, and hold the application until it graduates. </li><li>The artifact does not change hands. </li></ul>Directing Agents <ul><li>Direct coding agents against established patterns and judge the output — rather than starting from a blank page. </li></ul>Consuming Platforms <ul><li>Take governed data and the paved path as products other teams own. </li><li>Raise a gap in either rather than routing around it. </li></ul>Graduation &amp; Estate Hygiene <ul><li>Make each application reproducible from a clean clone — with the capability version pinned, a runbook in the repository, telemetry wired, an SLO defined, and alerts routed to a rote. </li><li>Hold 3 or fewer ungraduated applications at any time. </li></ul>Skills &amp; Experience <ul><li>Can sit with a finance, sales, or operations team and work out what they actually do </li><li>Directs coding agents well — and can tell when the output is wrong </li><li>Reads and reasons about code, and ships working software rather than prototypes </li><li>Has built something that another person went on to use </li><li>Business-unit background welcome — engineering years are not the bar; candidates from finance, sales, or operations who can direct an agent against a standard are in scope </li></ul> <h5>LIFE@ZURU </h5> ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).At ZURU, 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.At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com .WHAT WE OFFER<ul><li>🌱 Culture for Growth </li><li>🧘 Health Benefits </li><li>🌎 Global Opportunities </li><li>💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team </li><li>💰 Competitive Remuneration </li><li>🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional) </li></ul>ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀

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