Product Management Intern (Summer 2027)

apexanalytix • Greensboro, NC

2h

About The Position

We are looking for a curious, analytical Product Management Intern to join our product team. The intern will work alongside product managers to help determine what to build and why for supplier management software used by some of the world’s largest companies. They will talk with customers, suppliers, and internal users to understand problems, analyze product usage data, and turn findings into clear problem statements, user stories, and priorities for engineering and design partners.

The product team is adopting continuous discovery, Kanban, and outcome-based roadmaps, providing hands-on experience with modern product practices. By the end of the internship, the intern will have owned at least one discovery or improvement initiative from research through recommendation and presented findings to product leadership.

Requirements

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong curiosity about customers and a drive to understand the reasons behind problems before jumping to solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Comfort working with data in Excel or Google Sheets; SQL is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas simply to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity who can organize and follow through on their own work.
• Strong aptitude for AI, agentic frameworks, and prototyping.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SQL.

Responsibilities

• Conduct interviews with customers, suppliers, and internal users to understand their needs, pain points, and workflows, and synthesize findings into actionable insights.
• Analyze product usage data, support tickets, and customer feedback to identify trends and inform prioritization decisions.
• Research competitors and industry trends in supplier management, procure-to-pay, and supplier risk.
• Write problem statements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and help refine and prioritize the product backlog.
• Prototype and test ideas with users using wireframes or clickable mockups, such as Figma, before the team commits to building them.
• Partner with engineering, UX, and QA to clarify requirements during development and confirm releases solve the intended problems.
• Help define success metrics for features and build reports or dashboards showing how customers use the products.
• Support product launches by drafting release notes and enablement materials for sales, marketing, and other customer-facing teams.
• Participate in team rituals such as stand-ups, backlog reviews, and retrospectives, and present findings and recommendations to product leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern