Product Manager Intern

About the Role

Dedalus Labs builds persistent computers for AI agents, powering the next generation of autonomous software with their platform. They are seeking product managers who can understand complex technical systems and translate them into products that developers love.

About the Internship

This is a paid, full-time, approximately three-month internship based in San Francisco. Interns will work directly with Dedalus's product and engineering teams on real products, expected to understand users, identify problems, define scope, make tradeoffs, coordinate execution, and help ship products from idea to adoption. Interns demonstrating exceptional product judgment, technical fluency, ownership, execution, and fit may be considered for full-time roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Product strategy for infrastructure and developer tools.
• Product specifications and feature requirements.
• User research and customer discovery.
• Product launches and feature validation.
• Internal tooling and operational workflows.
• Documentation, onboarding, and developer experience improvements.

Representative Projects You Might Find Yourself Working On

• Interviewing developers to understand how they build and deploy AI agents.
• Designing onboarding experiences that help developers become productive faster.
• Working with engineers to define APIs, workflows, and product behavior.
• Prioritizing product improvements based on customer feedback and usage data.
• Writing product specifications for new infrastructure capabilities.
• Defining metrics that measure product adoption, activation, and retention.
• Launching new platform features from idea to production.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong product intuition and user empathy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to quickly understand complex technical systems.
• Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and highly proactive.
• Comfortable working with engineers and translating ambiguous ideas into concrete plans.
• High agency and excellent judgment.

Nice-to-have

• Previous startup, product, or founder experience.
• Experience building or shipping products end-to-end.
• Familiarity with developer tools, AI products, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience conducting user interviews or customer research.
• Experience with Figma, Linear, Notion, or modern product tooling.
• Technical background in computer science or engineering.
• Hackathon, side project, or entrepreneurial experience.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using product metrics.

Qualifications

• Obsessed with understanding users and how they think.
• Believe great products begin with asking the right questions.
• Enjoy talking to users more than making assumptions.
• Can quickly understand difficult technical concepts.
• Think good product decisions come from balancing user needs, engineering constraints, and business priorities.
• Have strong opinions about developer tools, AI products, or where software is headed.
• Believe simplicity is usually harder than complexity.
• Care deeply about product quality and the details users notice.
• High agency and fiercely independent.
• Say what should be built, then help make it happen.
• Competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
• Hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
• Go above and beyond in everything you do.

Compensation

• Internship pay is $45-$50 per hour.

Application Requirements

• A concrete account of work you completed and a difficult problem you investigated.
• A separate writing sample (e.g., README, design note, blog post, postmortem, proposal, essay).
• A short explanation of why this role fits.
• No automated mass submissions.
• Do not share confidential information.