Product Marketing Intern - Summer 2025

Pella Corporation 

Product Marketing Intern - Summer 2025

Pella, IA

Who Is Pella Corporation?

As the #1 most-preferred national window and door brand by homeowners across the country, Pella Corporation leads the industry in innovation and design. Founded in 1925, today the Pella Family of Brands encompasses a robust product offering sold and installed through various channels.  We are a growing, privately owned company with 20 manufacturing locations and over 10,000 team members in the U.S. and Canada. Pella is consistently recognized as a great place to work by Newsweek, Forbes and Glassdoor, having most recently been named to America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity by Newsweek in 2024. We have also received numerous accolades for innovation and design, including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2022 and 2023. 

At Pella, our team cares deeply, learns continuously and achieves results that go beyond. We encourage creative thinking that seeks out and includes diverse perspectives. And we empower you to do the work you’re most proud of — that’s why we offer individualized talent development plans, cross-functional experiences and opportunities for career advancement through personal and professional development.

With talent just like you, we are imagining, building and fighting for a brighter future for generations to come. Ready to find a career that sparks your passion?

Responsibilities

SUMMARY 

The Product Marketing Intern will provide support for key product initiatives and product launches. This position will help support product positioning, target audience messaging and meaningful claims – bringing a wide variety of marketing collateral (digital, print, store sets, sales tools, events) to life in compelling, memorable ways. The Product Marketing Intern will be aligned with a Product Marketing expert who will provide a variety of assignments, driven from key business needs.

A successful Product Marketing Intern should be detail-oriented, ensuring accuracy of product information (copy and visuals) and continuity across the Pella product portfolio by channel and segment. They will work with product management, product marketing, engineering, Pella’s segment teams and internal/external creative teams to ensure that product marketing projects are delivered within established project goals, deadlines and budget. 

While the responsibilities may vary slightly, the position will likely include varying levels of the following activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Build and continue to keep up with product knowledge and be a product knowledge advocate with internal and external teams.
• Ability to be responsive to changing business needs, manage and prioritize concurrent assignments and handle ambiguity. Proactively inform stakeholders of project status.
• Support product initiatives and reviews across brand/segment/channel (web, literature, video, displays, photos, content, etc.) collaborating to ensure product accuracy and positioning implementation aligns with the overall product strategies.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE 

Working toward a Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university.

LANGUAGE SKILLS 

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS 

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.  Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY 

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

COMPUTER SKILLS 

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Adobe Creative Suite and Workfront a plus. 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS 

None required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:

Pella Corporation is committed to workforce diversity. Pella is a Tobacco-Free Work Environment.  Post-offer background check and drug screen required.  Pella participates in E- Verify.  Pella will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

Pella Corporation provides a working environment free of discrimination and harassment.  Pella Corporation treats all persons equally, regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age or disability, as each is protected under federal law. Several states in which Pella operates have laws protecting classifications of Team Members not necessarily protected under federal law. Therefore, Pella also treats all persons equally, regardless of political affiliation and belief, pregnancy, national origin, age, creed, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, mental disorder, veteran status, ancestry or handicap as each category is protected under a municipal ordinance or state law.