Returnship; Product Builder

Colibri Group

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Colibri Group, we’re building the future of professional education. Our mission is to lead people to achieve more, adapt, and thrive in their careers. Our Product & Technology teams build the products that help professionals advance their careers and stay indispensable in a changing world. Our returnship brings that mission to experienced professionals ready to relaunch their own careers. We’re looking for experienced professionals to join Colibri’s Returnship Program as a Product Builder (Returnship). Your career break does not erase the expertise you earned. This paid, 12-week opportunity gives you a structured way to bring that experience back into technology work while learning how to build with AI. In this individual contributor role, you will join a cross-functional product pod: a small team working together to solve customer and business problems. You will take a problem from an early prototype to working, AI-enabled software in the hands of real users, then improve it through feedback and weekly iteration. You will have meaningful ownership, with responsibility for the quality, progress, and outcomes of your work. We welcome experience across engineering, product, design, learning, program management, business systems, and related disciplines. Bring your professional judgment and readiness to learn. Through AI-native training, hands-on delivery, and collaboration with your pod, you will build current skills while contributing the perspective of your prior career.

Requirements

• Typically three or more years of prior professional experience in engineering, product, design, learning, program management, business systems, or a related field
• A career break from paid work, typically two or more years, and readiness to relaunch your career through hands-on product delivery
• Evidence of the scope you held before your break, such as products delivered, outcomes owned, or teams and stakeholders influenced
• Readiness to retrain on AI coding and agent tools, work at pace, and take responsibility for the quality of what you build
• Professional judgment, customer empathy, clear communication, and a collaborative approach to mentoring and receiving feedback
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience
• Availability for the full 12-week, 40-hour-per-week onsite commitment in Pleasanton, California

Nice To Haves

• Experience in professional education, edtech, ecommerce, B2B SaaS, or regulated markets.

Responsibilities

• Complete Colibri’s AI-native training and use it in active project work, building fluency in current tools and ways of working
• Own a customer or business problem. Move from prototype through build, hardening, release, and iteration while owning the outcome and timeline within your pod’s commitments
• Deliver working software to real users. Take the fastest responsible path to a minimum viable product and then beta. Your work will reach production, beyond a local demonstration
• Apply your professional judgment. Use your prior experience to define scope, weigh trade-offs, align stakeholders, and help the pod make better decisions
• Show progress every week. Demonstrate your work in weekly demos and communicate progress, risks, and next steps clearly and honestly
• Direct and evaluate AI tools. Use AI coding and agent tools to accelerate delivery. When output falls short, identify the cause and improve the context, prompts, tools, or tests behind it
• Bring the standards of your discipline. Create strong requirements, designs, architecture, tests, learning designs, or programs, as relevant to your background, and learn how other disciplines contribute.
• Own quality. Review AI-generated and peer work for maintainability, test coverage, security, and fitness for purpose. Build quality into the work throughout delivery
• Support others and keep learning. Share your experience with early-career builders, help teammates break down and communicate work, seek feedback, and change your approach when evidence calls for it

Benefits

• This paid, 12-week opportunity gives you a structured way to bring that experience back into technology work while learning how to build with AI.
• Paid, temporary program lasting 12 weeks
• Structured AI-native training and real project work, supported by manager coaching, mentorship, and peer connections
• Relaunch with meaningful ownership. Build recent experience by delivering working software to real users and seeing how they respond
• Learn AI through practical application. Complete structured training and use those skills immediately with your pod
• Put your prior experience to work. Your judgment will help shape decisions, strengthen delivery, and support early-career colleagues
• Make an impact connected to your own journey. Help build products that advance learners’ careers while rebuilding momentum in yours

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree