Internship and Employment Opportunities at Penguin Group USA

Like Books? Then maybe you would like a career creating, promoting, or selling them!

Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is one of the leading trade book publishers in the United States. The company owns a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Grosset & Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin Books, The Penguin Press, Philomel, Plume, Puffin, Riverhead Books and Viking, among others. It publishes consumer books, in both hardcover and paperback editions, for adults as well as children. It also produces maps, calendars, eBooks and audiobooks. Penguin Group (USA) is a division of the internationally renowned Penguin Group, one of the largest English-language trade book publishers in the world. The Penguin Group is owned by Pearson plc, the international media group.

Have a light course-load next semester? Consider a fall internship with us!

Penguin Group (USA) offers paid internship opportunities in various business areas such as contracts, editorial, graphic design, managing editorial, marketing, production, publicity, sales, subsidiary rights, and operations. In its January 2006 issue, Seventeen Magazine recognized Penguin as one of the 17 best internships in the country!

The approximate dates of the Fall 2009 internship are September 14-November 20 (10 weeks total), and interns work 14 hours per week.

If you would like to apply for our fall internship program, please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@us.penguingroup.com and indicate the semester and business area(s) you are applying for in your cover letter.

The application deadline is August 15th.

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Summer Internship at Peek

Do you want to work for a start-up? Peek (www.getpeek.com) is a VC-funded wireless email startup with offices in Oakland, CA and New York City.  Peek is both a personal mobile email device and service provider – meaning we are not ‘tied’ to a network provider such as AT&T or Verizon. The goal of our product is to provide a simple, straightforward and elegant solution to mobile email that is not only stylish but affordable. We are actively looking for new  interns / part time employees for our Oakland office to help with a variety of product marketing and product management initiatives. You’ll help us analyze the latest technology, vendors and best practices to ensure we are on the cutting edge of consumer mobile email. This is a great opportunity to get product marketing experience with a start-up company in an active and interesting market space.  

Role

Product marketing

Develop specifications for new features and enhancements

Optimize the Peek website to provide product information to prospective and existing customers. 

Analyze customer behaviors and trends and develop programs to optimize customer behavior and develop new product features and enhancements.

Develop marketing research programs to test new features and services.

Input into marketing outreach and PR initiatives and operations

Technical marketing

Product testing and pre-launch deployment analysis – including operational readiness testing, defect management and resolution processes

Test and analyze device behavior through the use of testing tools and processes

Background/Interest

Must-haves:

Highly motivated, willing to take on new tasks and work independently

Interest and knowledge of the wireless / tech industry

Interest in working with a wireless startup in a fast-paced environment

Excellent problem solving skills and ability to work collaboratively and communicate

Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

Nice but not required:

Design experience with Adobe Photoshop / InDesign / Flash

Web and/or software development experience including C/C++, HTML, PHP

Timing & Dates

We are currently accepting applications for a summer internship position from May – August of 2009, with specific dates variable depending on University Summer term break.

We are also looking to fill at least one part-time position in Oakland immediately, which has the potential to transition to a full-time Summer internship depending on performance and other market variables.

Peek has gotten rave reviews (NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time, Oprah), just launched a second product (Peek Pronto), is available at several nationwide retailers (Target, Radio Shack, Amazon.com, Costco.com) and is looking to hire!  We're looking for marketing and product interns for the summer.  If you're interested, please send your resume to Jeremy at jeremy@getpeek.com.