Technical Product Management Intern

About PARQIS

Parqis is building creator-led social commerce — shoppable reels where creators, brands, and shoppers meet. We're a small, fast-moving team running a real, live platform across web and mobile, built on a modern stack.

The Role

You'll be a Technical Product Management Intern, acting as the liaison between tech, product, and design. This role involves ensuring the right things are built, built well, and shipped effectively.

What you'll learn & do

• Connect the dots: Help translate product/design ideas into clear, buildable specs with acceptance criteria.
• Keep work on track: Support planning, break down large ideas into scoped tasks, and identify blockers or slippage early.
• Speak both languages: Learn to translate technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders and product/UX intent for engineers.
• See the bigger picture: Coordinate work across teams and features to ensure alignment and prevent oversight.
• Follow launches end-to-end: Participate in release planning, rollout, and monitoring, and take ownership of specific aspects.
• Understand real trade-offs: Observe how features are balanced against technical debt, quality, and risk, and begin to make decisions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Technically curious: Ability to read or learn to read code, understand basic APIs/databases, and think in systems.
• Communication: Clearly communicate and stay organized across many tasks.
• Self-driven: Comfortable with ambiguity and eager to learn quickly.
• Availability: Commit 30+ hours/week for 2–6 months.
• Bonus points for exposure to:
• Next.js
• Supabase/ Postgres
• Flutter
• Git/ GitHub
• Figma
• Jira/ Linear
• Postman
• Interest in:
• Creator/influencer commerce
• Video/reels
• E-commerce
• Marketplaces
• Demonstrated initiative: Side projects, hackathons, or any experience showing you build and ship.

Qualifications

• A student, recent grad, or career-switcher eager to break into technical product management.

What you'll walk away with

• Real ownership of meaningful product work on a live platform.
• Direct mentorship from founders and engineers.
• A portfolio of shipped work and a strong recommendation for standout interns.
• Insight into how an early-stage startup builds products.
• Internship certificate on completion.
• Potential for a paid role/stipend as the company grows.