Children's Licensing Editorial Intern
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £14.8 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
Children’s Licensing Editorial Intern
Are you energised by pop culture, including television, gaming and film, and the brands shaping childhood today? Do you enjoy generating bold ideas and spotting trends early? If you’re commercially aware, organised and excited by children’s entertainment publishing, this could be the role for you.
A bit about the team and projects you'll work on:
The Children’s Licensing team is a group of editorial and design colleagues who publish market-leading entertainment brands for readers from babies to teens, including Stranger Things, Bluey, Peppa Pig, Wednesday, Hey Duggee, Ms Rachel and more. It’s a fast-moving team that blends creativity with commercial precision.
Over eight weeks, you’ll contribute to creative planning sessions, generate story ideas and formats, research new brand opportunities and review manuscripts and layouts. You’ll write back cover copy, update metadata, review eBooks and maintain backlist records. You’ll also attend cross-functional meetings with sales, production and rights, gaining insight into how licensed publishing operates at scale. Day to day, you’ll balance creative thinking with structured administrative tasks, ensuring projects stay on track while developing new ideas that resonate with young audiences.
Knowledge and skills you’ll gain: Children’s market insight; licensed publishing processes; creative ideation; editorial review; metadata optimisation; project coordination; teamwork; commercial thinking.
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 energised by pop culture, including television, gaming and film, and the brands shaping childhood today? Do you enjoy generating bold ideas and spotting trends early? If you’re commercially aware, organised and excited by children’s entertainment publishing, this could be the role for you.
A bit about the team and projects you'll work on:
The Children’s Licensing team is a group of editorial and design colleagues who publish market-leading entertainment brands for readers from babies to teens, including Stranger Things, Bluey, Peppa Pig, Wednesday, Hey Duggee, Ms Rachel and more. It’s a fast-moving team that blends creativity with commercial precision.
Over eight weeks, you’ll contribute to creative planning sessions, generate story ideas and formats, research new brand opportunities and review manuscripts and layouts. You’ll write back cover copy, update metadata, review eBooks and maintain backlist records. You’ll also attend cross-functional meetings with sales, production and rights, gaining insight into how licensed publishing operates at scale. Day to day, you’ll balance creative thinking with structured administrative tasks, ensuring projects stay on track while developing new ideas that resonate with young audiences.
Knowledge and skills you’ll gain: Children’s market insight; licensed publishing processes; creative ideation; editorial review; metadata optimisation; project coordination; teamwork; commercial thinking.
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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