Product Manager Intern

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Product Manager Intern, you will define product vision and strategy by leveraging a deep understanding of the customer experience and competitive market, while identifying short-and long-term investment opportunities, evaluating tradeoffs, and driving the product roadmap. You will build consensus on product strategy, define features, vision and goals for a specific product(s) or set of features. This opportunity will allow you to develop and execute strategies to enable in-product organic growth and focus on central, cross-functional leadership of a product.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

This is for a summer 2027 internship.

Responsibilities

• Identifies customers’ unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities for enhancements or development of a feature (e.g., product, service) via quantitative and qualitative analyses and scope the impact of a problem.
• Drives and tracks Key Results, success criteria and performance metrics. Partner with Software Engineering and Hardware Engineering to identify needed data and ensure telemetry is developed.
• Determines features or experiences to prioritize in the roadmap that will support achievement of success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Gathers input on priorities and resources needed to deliver desired outcomes for a single feature (e.g., product, service).
• Iterates multiple designs with Design, Software Engineering, and Hardware Engineering. Assist in facilitating reviews (e.g., UX, system designs, data designs) with customers (e.g., regulators, engineers, policy makers, business-decision makers) to determine usability and ensure accessibility criteria and updated designs meet customer goals.
• Collaborates with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to identify product release criteria, customer acquisition, and usage.
• Monitors and reports on progress and derive insights that lead to productive courses of action to improve product/feature development, iteration, and implementation.
• Builds trust with customers. Leverage a line of communication with customers to capture feedback and insights through the product development lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree with at least one semester/term of school remaining following the completion of the internship OR Currently pursuing a Master's Degree with at least one semester/term of school remaining following the completion of the internship OR Currently pursuing a Doctorate with at least one semester/term of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in product/service/project/program management or software development or equivalent experience.