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Product Management Intern 2026

IBM

IBM

Product
California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA · Delft, Netherlands
Posted on Nov 21, 2025
Introduction

Product Management sits at the intersection of Technology, Business, and Design, serving as the central function that defines what products should be built and why. As a Product Specialist, you are a critical part of this function, directly supporting the execution of the product strategy by translating high-level vision into actionable product requirements and managing the day-to-day product development lifecycle. Your role ensures that features developed in areas like Security AI, Application Modernization and Computing Systems deliver measurable customer value while achieving defined business outcomes—making you a foundational driver of product success.

Your role and responsibilities

Join our Product Management team for an intensive internship designed to immerse you in the full product lifecycle across key strategic areas: Security, Data & AI, Application Modernization, and Advanced Computing. You will gain hands-on experience in market research, competitive analysis, and translating complex user needs into actionable product requirements and user stories. This is a unique opportunity to learn how products are built from the ground up, balancing technical feasibility with business impact and customer value.

By the end of the program, you will have significantly enhanced your skills in business communication, data analysis, and product ownership. You will learn to manage cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and sales teams, acting as part of the central hub for product decisions. This experience will provide a strong foundation for launching a successful career in product management and technology leadership.

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Actively enrolled in college/university

Communication & Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex ideas clearly.

Analytical Thinking: Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous problems, conduct root cause analysis, and synthesize data to inform decision-making.

Customer Focus: ability to think from a customer's perspective.

Product Curiosity: A strong interest in the product development lifecycle and technology trends.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Junior / Senior level classes in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, Product Development, and/or Product Design

Experience with customer-facing engagements

Familiarity with AI, Security and Automation concepts and technologies

Prior involvement in projects, clubs, or coursework that required cross-functional coordination or leadership.

Basic understanding of market dynamics, business models, and competitive analysis.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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?

ABOUT IBM

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 blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.