Patagonia Internship Program

Deadline: As soon as possible

Internships

Companies

Location(s)

  • United States of America

Overview

Each summer, Patagonia offers college students internship opportunities in a variety of departments throughout the company. These 12-week paid positions range from jobs in product development to finance to material sciences to marketing, and differ every year. Interns will gain valuable work experience and great exposure to Patagonia’s unique corporate culture.

Details

Internships are offered at Patagonia headquarters in Ventura, Calif., Patagonia Provisions in Sausalito, Calif., and Patagonia’s Service Center in Reno, Nevada.

All opportunities are posted in the winter and hiring decisions are made in the spring. Please visit the Jobs section of the Careers page and sign up for the RSS feed to find out when positions become available and the deadline for applications.

Kindly note our internship program has become very competitive, with a high number of applicants each year. We thank you in advance for your patience, and will send you a follow up email as we move through the process.

Here is what one Patagonia intern had to say about their experience:

“Hearing about what it means to be a progressive and ethical company is one thing, but being able to experience it at first hand was an incredible experience. It was highly encouraging to be a part of this unique community [and] to learn what sort of career opportunities could arise from a business background. The internship turns non-networkers into social butterflies, it turns the unadventurous into Patagoniacs, and it turns people who think conventionally about business into believers of the triple bottom line and the feasibility of a corporation to have aims besides profit.”

Culture/Life

If you care about having a company where employees treat work as play and regard themselves as ultimate customers for the products they produce, then you have to be careful whom you hire, treat them right, and train them to treat other people right. Otherwise you may come to work one day and find it isn’t a place you want to be anymore.

Our Mission

Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

Our Reason for Being

Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running. These are all silent sports. None require a motor; none deliver the cheers of a crowd. In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection between us and nature.

Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted. The approach we take towards product design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility.

For us at Patagonia, a love of wild and beautiful places demands participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in the overall environmental health of our planet. We donate our time, services and at least 1% of our sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups all over the world who work to help reverse the tide.

We know that our business activity – from lighting stores to dyeing shirts – creates pollution as a by-product. So we work steadily to reduce those harms. We use recycled polyester in many of our clothes and only organic, rather than pesticide-intensive, cotton.

Staying true to our core values during thirty-plus years in business has helped us create a company we're proud to run and work for. And our focus on making the best products possible has brought us success in the marketplace.

Environmental & Social Responsibility

  • SIGN UP. SHOW UP. TAKE ACTION. - For almost 40 years, Patagonia has supported grassroots activists working to find solutions to the environmental crisis. But in this time of unprecedented threat, it’s often hard to know the best way to get involved. That’s why we’re connecting individuals with our grantees in order to take action on the most pressing issues facing the world today.
  • SUSTAINABILITY MISSION/VISION - Learn more about our reason for being, the struggle to become a responsible company and how our business affects global environmental issues like global warming.
  • ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS AND SUPPORT - We give 1% of our sales to support environmental organizations around the world, funding at the grassroots level in countries and communities where we have people on the ground.
  • CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP - Patagonia relies on the brains and resources of several key partners who work to improve the way we build our products and conduct our business.
  • EMPLOYEE ACTIVISM - We give employees throughout our worldwide operations a number of interesting opportunities to support environmental work. Learn about some of them here.
  • ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNS - Patagonia is committed to bringing our resources and connections to bear on threats to wildness, far and wide. We all have a chance to make a difference. Let’s take a stand.

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Eligibility

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Dates

Deadline: As soon as possible


Cost/funding for participants

Paid position.

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