Product Management Intern

Product Management Intern — UI/UX & Design Systems

Unpaid | Remote

About the Role

Sports Excitement is a global sports community platform. This is a remote, unpaid, three-month learning opportunity designed for individuals interested in gaining practical exposure to product management in a sports technology environment. Interns will collaborate with product, design, and development team members on supervised projects involving customer discovery, UI/UX collaboration, product requirements, user flows, product analytics, and Agile development practices. The internship aims to provide hands-on experience across different stages of the product lifecycle and strengthen skills in product thinking, documentation, research, analytics, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in user research and customer discovery activities, including user interviews, note-taking, and organizing qualitative feedback.
• Assist with synthesizing research findings into user needs, customer problem statements, user personas, and product insights.
• Support the creation and refinement of Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Gain experience writing structured acceptance criteria using formats such as Given-When-Then when appropriate.
• Collaborate with UX and product design team members to review wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes.
• Support usability reviews and help identify opportunities to improve clarity, accessibility, navigation, and overall user experience.
• Gain exposure to design systems and help document or organize reusable UI patterns, components, and product design standards where applicable.
• Assist with mapping onboarding flows, user funnels, and other product journeys.
• Support the review and organization of basic product metrics, including engagement, retention, and user behavior data.
• Gain exposure to experimentation concepts such as A/B testing and hypothesis-driven product development.
• Participate in Agile team activities such as sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and other team members while receiving feedback and guidance.
• Document product decisions, requirements, assumptions, user insights, and relevant trade-offs.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Foundational understanding of product management, UI/UX, user-centered design, customer discovery, or Agile software development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an interest in understanding user needs and identifying root causes.
• Ability to organize information and communicate ideas clearly in written and verbal formats.
• Interest in learning how to write product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
• Basic understanding of user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, or digital product experiences.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, time management, and the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote, cross-functional environment.
• Relevant coursework, training, personal projects, portfolio work, volunteer experience, or other practical experience in Product Management, Business, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, UX/UI Design, Data Analytics, or a related field is welcomed.
• Interest in sports, technology, digital communities, or consumer-facing platforms is a plus.

Preferred Tools & Experience

Experience with the following is helpful but not required:

• Figma or similar design and prototyping tools
• Notion, Jira, Confluence, or similar product/project documentation tools
• Basic analytics or product analytics platforms
• Agile or Scrum workflows
• User research or usability testing
• Product requirement documentation
• Design systems or component libraries

Academic, personal, volunteer, and non-commercial project experience is welcome.

Internship Structure

• Duration: 3 months
• Time Commitment: Approximately 20 hours per week
• Location: Remote — U.S.-Based Applicants Only
• Compensation: Unpaid Internship

Academic Credit

• May be available, subject to approval by the intern’s college or university.
• Candidates are responsible for confirming eligibility and academic-credit requirements directly with their educational institution.
• Sports Excitement can support reasonable internship verification requirements from participating educational institutions.