Product Manager Intern 2027

Job description

Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your role and responsibilities We’re looking for Product Manager Interns to help build AI enabled and data-driven software products across our teams. As an intern, you will work closely with engineering, design, and data science partners to support product strategy, define user needs, and deliver features that provide real value. This role offers hands-on exposure to he product lifecycle while developing skills in research, experimentation, prioritization, and stakeholder collaboration. What You’ll Do • Support product strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization. • Translate technical concepts—such as APIs, ML models, and data flows—into clear user stories. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and refine features. • Use analytics and user feedback to assess product performance. • Apply responsible and ethical AI practices. • Participate in Agile ceremonies, research activities, and design reviews. • Communicate updates and findings to stakeholders. Program Dates: Internship start dates vary based on your academic calendar. • Semester System: May 24, 2027 – August 13, 2027 • Quarter System: June 14, 2027 – September 3, 2027 Candidates must be available to participate for the full duration of the internship corresponding to their academic schedule. Location Flexibility: By applying to this requisition, you acknowledge and agree to be considered for any of the listed locations associated with this position and are willing to work at the location where you are ultimately assigned. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise • Understanding of product management principles and user-centered thinking. • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts or data workflows through coursework or projects. • Experience with Agile practices and collaborative work environments. • Ability to analyze data and communicate insights clearly. • Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills Preferred technical and professional experience • Exposure to product analytics or data visualization tools. • Coursework or projects related to AI, data, or software engineering. • Familiarity with responsible AI or ethics framework IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockch