Overview

We’re an innovative new toy start-up backed by Amazon, Verizon and Y Combinator. We’re building the next revolution of smart toys. Check us out at www.toymail.co.

We are looking to fill a key position of our creative team. Are you super-smart? Are you self-motivated? Does the idea of growing with a start-up company that creates highly innovative consumer products, becoming a critical member of its operational team appeal to you?

While experience is important, we are ultimately looking for someone entrepreneurial, smart, and hungry with creative smarts. You will be doing our packaging design, creating content, designing our marketing materials, and building our brand language.

Please provide a few sentences of what you seek in an internship.

Ideally you are located in/around New York though select remote opportunities available.

TO APPLY:

Provide the following information and provide a few sentences of what you seek in an internship. Also send your portfolio link and a resume in PDF form.

  1. What is your earliest start date, and what is your end date? Are you available 20 hours per week?
  2. Are you able to work mainly remotely but attend meetings in the Flatiron district in NYC?
  3. Can you provide your own laptop, photoshop and illustrator?

Internship opportunities available are unpaid and for credit.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • The student will build their graphic design portfolio, increase their graphic design skills, and learn to build and develop brand language. This training is similar to the learning a student would get in a high level design or branding college class.
  • The student will receive mentor-ship from our CEO and Creative Director in graphic design, and business development of a startup
  • The student will be able to sit in on team meetings and contribute ideas to high level development
  • The student will be able to pitch projects to the co-founders and learn to develop their ideas in a professional setting
  • The student can gain experience in an office / startup setting in a field relevant to their major
  • The student will develop their professional communication skills and receive resume and cover letter support

About Toymail

We're an Amazon, Verizon & YC backed, early stage tech startup based in NYC building a groundbreaking way for kids to exchange voice messages with loved ones. Our founding team are the serial entrepreneurs behind Clocky, the runaway alarm clock that has sold over a million units. We value people who communicate complex ideas with fluency, attack problems creatively with simple and focused execution, and are hungry to build something big.

The only kid-friendly WIFI toy messenger. Use our free app to message our toys from your phone & your child can reply right back!

After securing funding from both Amazon and Verizon and getting into Y Combinator, Toymail has just launched the "Talkies"​ - a quirky new line of plush toys that let friends and family exchange messages with kids for two-way voice talk.

With Toymail's Talkies kids can:

• Send messages to grownup's phones with the free Toymail app
• Send messages directly to other friend's Talkies.
• Play for hours on or offline with our on-board voice filtering software