Product Management Intern
Overview
Start date: Summer 2025
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 Management 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
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Working towards a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics or a technical field.
- You must have at least one semester left following the completion of the internship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Some experience in product/service/project/program management or software development.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Responsibilities
Analysis of Customer and Market Signals by Developing task ownership and a first-hand understanding of a less ambiguous feature, the customer, and how the customer interacts with and uses the feature. Begins to influence features for local team.
Product/Service Definition by driving and tracking Key Results as assigned and learning to understand one or more success criteria and performance metrics. Helps to identify data-informed, short-term investment opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and prioritize investments in consultation and helps engage with internal partners, external partners, including early adopting customers, and other key stakeholders to gather input and garner support for product/service vision, strategy, and roadmap for a feature.
Product/Service Development in partnering with others (e.g., Data Science, Software Engineering [SWE], Hardware Engineering [HWE], User Research) to collect performance metrics (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs] such as engagement, usage, acquisition, revenue, and in-project features), monitor and report on progress.
Go To Market collaboration with Product Marketing, Business Planning to identify product release criteria, customer acquisition, usage, retention, and monetization strategies, under the guidance of others.
Product/Service Performance in partnering with others (e.g., Data Science, Software Engineering [SWE], Hardware Engineering [HWE], User Research) to collect performance metrics (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs] such as engagement, usage, acquisition, revenue, and in-project features), monitor and report on progress.
