Product Management & Innovation (PM&I) Intern

About the Role

As a PM&I Summer Associate, you'll work with cross-functional hybrid teams, leveraging Bain's expertise to redefine Product Management in the age of AI. You will design, prototype, and launch new digital products, services, customer experiences, and businesses, operating at the intersection of strategy, product, and technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and validate opportunities for innovation using human-centered design methods.
• Translate user and business needs into product concepts, prototypes, and MVPs.
• Contribute to product vision, strategy, and roadmap development for digital initiatives.
• Partner with engineers, designers, and clients to test and iterate solutions rapidly.
• Leverage emerging technologies, including AI, data platforms, and automation, to accelerate business outcomes.
• Support agile ceremonies, define user stories, and help manage backlogs across cross-functional teams.
• Support backlog & planning (story writing, acceptance criteria), contributing to lightweight PRDs and simple roadmap artifacts.
• Document and share internship learnings to senior Bain leaders.

What You'll Learn

• How Bain combines consulting rigor with product management discipline to drive innovation.
• The full product lifecycle, from user research to launching and scaling solutions.
• Human-centered design, design thinking, agile, and lean startup methods in a consulting context.
• Stakeholder management, including sharing product tradeoffs and translating technical elements into business and user implications.
• Business case definition, including sizing, measuring, and tracking business value.
• Effective collaboration across disciplines: strategy, technology, and design.
• How emerging tools and AI are reshaping digital product development.

Requirements & Tech Stack

This role requires in-person collaboration, with co-location with your team at least three days a week.

Qualifications

• MBA students passionate about technology, innovation, and product development.
• Strong mix of business acumen and technical curiosity.
• Excitement for translating ideas into scalable digital experiences.
• Exposure to agile, product management, or design thinking (professional or academic).
• Ability to thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments and comfort with ambiguity.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Ability to rapidly absorb and interpret business context, technical information, and customer needs.
• Based in (or open to working from) New York or San Francisco.

Pluses

• Prior experience in product management, startups, consulting, or technology.
• Coursework from a related dual-degree program (e.g., engineering, computer science, design, or product management).
• Ability to use Gen-AI powered product development tools effectively (e.g., Cursor, Synthetic Users, V0, Loveable, etc.).