Digital Marketing and Ecommerce Intern
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £14.80 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Penguin Books UK |
| Job type: | Temporary |
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Summary
Digital Marketing and Ecommerce Intern
Are you commercially sharp and creative? Do you want to understand how campaigns convert attention into sales? If you’re curious about media and marketing and motivated by measurable impact, this could be the role for you.
A bit about the team and projects you'll work on:
The Digital Media team sits within the Brand division which houses a number of central areas of specialist expertise who support and work closely with our publishing houses to connect our books and authors with readers. The department includes experts from digital marketing, brand, communications, design, consumer insights, and more.
The Digital Marketing Team owns the digital funnel, connecting readers to books through paid media, ecommerce and performance marketing. The team works across publishing divisions to plan, launch and optimise campaigns that drive discovery and sales.
You’ll lead a structured core project, planning and delivering a small paid media campaign with guidance. From defining objectives and audiences to launching activity and reporting on results, you’ll gain end-to-end exposure to campaign strategy. Alongside this, you’ll assist with campaign set-up, performance monitoring and ecommerce activity, while contributing to process improvements such as creating internal resources and organising digital systems. The role combines creative judgement with data-led decision-making.
Knowledge and skills you’ll gain: Paid media fundamentals; audience targeting; campaign reporting; ecommerce exposure; performance analysis; platform knowledge (Meta/Google); project ownership; presentation skills.
About our Summer Internship
This role is part of our summer internship programme at Penguin Random House UK. Please note that our summer internship is a positive action training programme, aimed at bringing new voices into the business. As a result, we will only be accepting applications from candidates who identify as coming from a lower socio-economic background. You can find more information about this eligibility criteria on our careers site or in the application form.
You must also be over the age of 18 and have the existing right to work in the UK in order to apply for this internship role. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas as the summer internship does not meet the minimum requirements for visa sponsorship.
Applications close on Sunday 29th March at 23:59.
Our summer interns are paid the London living wage.
Summer interns will be expected to join us in the business for 8 weeks from Monday 6th July 2026.
Please note that this is a full-time hybrid position. You will be working from 9:30am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday. You will be expected to be in person in our London office for at least 2 days per week.
Are you commercially sharp and creative? Do you want to understand how campaigns convert attention into sales? If you’re curious about media and marketing and motivated by measurable impact, this could be the role for you.
A bit about the team and projects you'll work on:
The Digital Media team sits within the Brand division which houses a number of central areas of specialist expertise who support and work closely with our publishing houses to connect our books and authors with readers. The department includes experts from digital marketing, brand, communications, design, consumer insights, and more.
The Digital Marketing Team owns the digital funnel, connecting readers to books through paid media, ecommerce and performance marketing. The team works across publishing divisions to plan, launch and optimise campaigns that drive discovery and sales.
You’ll lead a structured core project, planning and delivering a small paid media campaign with guidance. From defining objectives and audiences to launching activity and reporting on results, you’ll gain end-to-end exposure to campaign strategy. Alongside this, you’ll assist with campaign set-up, performance monitoring and ecommerce activity, while contributing to process improvements such as creating internal resources and organising digital systems. The role combines creative judgement with data-led decision-making.
Knowledge and skills you’ll gain: Paid media fundamentals; audience targeting; campaign reporting; ecommerce exposure; performance analysis; platform knowledge (Meta/Google); project ownership; presentation skills.
About our Summer Internship
This role is part of our summer internship programme at Penguin Random House UK. Please note that our summer internship is a positive action training programme, aimed at bringing new voices into the business. As a result, we will only be accepting applications from candidates who identify as coming from a lower socio-economic background. You can find more information about this eligibility criteria on our careers site or in the application form.
You must also be over the age of 18 and have the existing right to work in the UK in order to apply for this internship role. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas as the summer internship does not meet the minimum requirements for visa sponsorship.
Applications close on Sunday 29th March at 23:59.
Our summer interns are paid the London living wage.
Summer interns will be expected to join us in the business for 8 weeks from Monday 6th July 2026.
Please note that this is a full-time hybrid position. You will be working from 9:30am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday. You will be expected to be in person in our London office for at least 2 days per week.
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