Product Management - Intern (Summer 2026)

Who You’ll be Working With

Codal is seeking a highly motivated Product Management Intern. In this role, you will have the opportunity to join live engagements and see consulting and product management in action. Each intern will be paired with a dedicated mentor and get real feedback from product leadership. Strong interns are often given full-time return offers.

As a Product Management Intern, you will contribute directly to the definition of clear product requirements and user stories, support discovery/delivery activities, and optimize existing PMO processes. We'll need you to have a strong eagerness to learn and effective communication skills to actively seek feedback, document your findings, and successfully collaborate with product owners and the wider cross-functional team across Design and Engineering.

You can expect to actively research and propose solutions that contribute to the modernization and acceleration of client success through digital solutions. Working closely with your mentor and the team, you will learn how to deconstruct client business needs, define clear product requirements, and tackle specific strategic challenges within your primary area of focus: application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, or custom products.

Key Responsibilities  

• Assist in translating product strategy into clear product roadmaps. Define features through clearly written user stories as part of an Agile delivery team.
• Participate in ongoing Discoveries by performing market research and competitive analysis to understand user needs.
• Coordinate and organize work streams across multiple small to medium-sized projects. Facilitate daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, and retrospectives.
• Communicate with internal teams and external client representatives. Capture meeting insights and send regular project updates to project stakeholders.
• Track project progress and regularly follow-up with team members to identify, resolve and escalate potential project blockers. 
• Identify, define, evaluate, plan, track and realize the outcomes and benefits of change initiatives instituted by organizational leaders. Contribute to the determination of project scope, resource requirements, and project milestones.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore Codal teams including designers, engineers, and business stakeholders. Work across the internal and client organization, partnering with multiple stakeholders to understand and translate requirements.
• Seek and incorporate feedback to continuously improve understanding of product/project management skill sets and PMO process understanding.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a relevant program (IT, software engineering, or a related field).
• Experience or coursework demonstrating interest in at least one of the following core PM areas: Product Strategy (market/competitive analysis), UX/UI Design (wireframing/journey mapping), or Agile Delivery (Scrum/Kanban).
• Familiarity with at least one software management tool relevant to the role, such as Jira, Confluence, or other popular services for project management and documentation.
• Basic understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and experience with Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience or coursework in one or more of the primary focus areas:
• Product Strategy: Experience with market research, competitive analysis, and translating business goals into product requirements.
• UX/Design: Familiarity with product discovery activities like user journey mapping, product ideation, and MVP definition.
• Agile/Delivery: Understanding of defining features through clearly written user stories and leading team prioritization efforts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate business needs and project status clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Possess maturity and good judgment.
• A strong eagerness to learn, intellectual curiosity, and a proactive attitude toward problem-solving.
• Ability to work in-person on a hybrid basis at our HQ in Chicago, IL for the full duration of the internship (June 1, 2026 - August 7, 2026).
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and collaborate with cross-functional roles.

Benefits and Salary

• Hourly Rate: $34-40 per hour. The rate within this range will be determined based on the candidate's experience level and qualifications

Need another reason to hit the “apply” button?

• Codal is a global agency with over 200 employees, and offices in the US, UK, and India 
• We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work
• Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water 
• A recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball 
• An office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities
• Working hybrid for in-person collaboration and sprint-planning days