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Product Management Internship

Learn how products are planned and shipped: user research, problem statements, prioritisation, PRDs, roadmaps, metrics and experiments.

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What you'll work on

Full syllabus: all 60 graded tasks

These are the actual tasks the internship portal assigns for this domain. You submit each one with proof (a GitHub link or document) and a mentor reviews it.

Level 1: Foundations (24 tasks)
  1. What a product manager does. Write a page on the PM role: discovery, delivery, working with engineering, design and business.
  2. Product teardown. Pick an app you use daily and describe its users, problem solved, key features and how it makes money.
  3. User personas. Create 3 personas for a college canteen ordering app from short interviews with 5 students.
  4. Problem statement. Write a clear problem statement and the evidence for it for one persona.
  5. Competitor analysis. Compare 4 competitors in a table: features, pricing, strengths and gaps.
  6. User journey map. Map the journey of a student ordering food today, with pain points at each step.
  7. Write user stories. Write 10 user stories with acceptance criteria in the As a / I want / So that format.
  8. Prioritisation. Prioritise 15 features with RICE or MoSCoW and explain your top 5.
  9. Wireframes. Sketch low-fidelity wireframes for the main flow in Figma, Excalidraw or on paper.
  10. Agile basics. Explain sprints, backlog, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives, and run a mini retro on your own week.
  11. Metrics. Define a North Star metric and 5 supporting metrics for the canteen app.
  12. Product vision. Write a one-paragraph vision and a one-page product strategy for the app.
  13. Jobs to be done. Write five jobs-to-be-done statements for a student learning app.
  14. Problem interviews log. Keep a log of 10 short user conversations and tag the problems mentioned.
  15. Feature request triage. Sort 20 feature requests by theme and write which problem each really points to.
  16. App store review analysis. Analyse 50 app store reviews of a competitor and summarise the top complaints.
  17. Simple OKRs. Write one objective and three key results for a product for the next quarter.
  18. Release checklist. Write a release checklist covering testing, docs, support and announcements.
  19. User flow diagram. Draw the flow for sign-up to first value for a product you use.
  20. Write a clear bug report. Write three bug reports with steps, expected and actual results and severity.
  21. Meeting facilitation. Run a 30-minute meeting with an agenda and send notes with decisions.
  22. Basic SQL for PMs. Answer five product questions from a sample database with SQL.
  23. Pricing page review. Review three SaaS pricing pages and note what makes them clear or confusing.
  24. Onboarding teardown. Teardown the onboarding of two apps and list ideas you would borrow.
Level 2: Building real features (20 tasks)
  1. Product requirements document. Write a PRD for one feature: goal, users, stories, scope, out of scope, metrics and risks.
  2. Roadmap. Build a Now / Next / Later roadmap and explain why it is outcome-based, not date-based.
  3. Customer interviews. Run 5 problem interviews with a script, record notes and summarise the patterns.
  4. Survey design. Design and run a short survey with at least 20 responses and analyse the results.
  5. MVP definition. Define the smallest version that tests your riskiest assumption and how you will measure it.
  6. Clickable prototype. Build a clickable prototype in Figma and test it with 3 users.
  7. Funnel analysis. Use sample data to build a sign-up to order funnel and find the biggest drop-off.
  8. A/B test plan. Plan an A/B test: hypothesis, variants, metric, sample size and how long to run it.
  9. Working with engineers. Pair with a developer intern to estimate stories and split one large story into small ones.
  10. Stakeholder update. Write a weekly product update for stakeholders: progress, metrics, risks and asks.
  11. Opportunity solution tree. Build an opportunity solution tree from an outcome down to experiments.
  12. Story mapping. Create a user story map and slice it into releases.
  13. Usability test report. Run a usability test with 5 users and write findings with severity.
  14. Metrics tree. Break down a North Star metric into input metrics you can influence.
  15. Experiment results write-up. Analyse sample A/B test data and write a decision memo.
  16. Customer support insights. Read 30 support tickets (real or sample) and turn them into product insights.
  17. Sprint goal setting. Write sprint goals for three sprints and link them to the roadmap.
  18. Release notes for users. Write release notes that explain benefits, not just features.
  19. Competitive positioning. Write a positioning statement and a one-page battle card against a competitor.
  20. Accessibility requirements. Add accessibility acceptance criteria to five user stories.
Level 3: Professional work and capstone (16 tasks)
  1. Go-to-market plan. Write a launch plan: audience, message, channels, pricing and launch checklist.
  2. Pricing strategy. Compare freemium, subscription and pay-per-use for your product and recommend one with numbers.
  3. Analytics dashboard. Build a product dashboard (in a spreadsheet, Looker Studio or Power BI) with your key metrics.
  4. Retention analysis. Make a cohort retention chart from sample data and suggest two ideas to improve retention.
  5. Trade-off decision. Write a decision memo on a hard trade-off (speed vs quality, feature vs fix) with options and a recommendation.
  6. AI feature spec. Spec an AI-powered feature: user value, data needed, risks, evaluation and fallback when the AI is wrong.
  7. Real company product review. Review one Training Trains, W3AppDevelopers or DomainHostly product page and write improvement suggestions with priorities.
  8. Capstone: product case. Deliver a complete product case: research, personas, PRD, prototype, roadmap, metrics and a 10-slide pitch.
  9. Business case. Write a business case for a new feature with costs, revenue impact and risks.
  10. Platform vs feature decision. Decide whether to build a reusable platform capability or a one-off feature, with a memo.
  11. Product analytics plan. Write an event tracking plan with event names, properties and dashboards.
  12. Sunset a feature. Plan how to remove an underused feature with communication and data.
  13. Pricing experiment. Design a safe pricing experiment and what you would measure.
  14. Product review presentation. Present a quarterly product review with metrics, wins, misses and next steps.
  15. Ethics review. Review a feature for dark patterns, privacy and fairness issues.
  16. Capstone 2: ship a small product. Ship a small working product or feature with a developer intern (no-code is fine), get real users and report on metrics and learnings.

Real software work, not just training

Every Product Management task is reviewed by our team and saved to your portfolio. Interns who pass the readiness check can take real work from Training Trains, W3AppDevelopers and DomainHostly projects on the Company Work board.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need experience to join the Product Management internship?+

No coding is needed. Students from any department with good communication skills can join.

What will I do in the Product Management internship?+

You complete 60 graded tasks in three levels: foundations, real features, and professional work. Each task is submitted with GitHub or document proof and reviewed. The final capstone is: Capstone 2: ship a small product.

Do I get a certificate for the Product Management internship?+

Yes. After your required tasks are approved, your attendance is above 75% and you pass the proctored final exam, you get a graded completion certificate that anyone can verify at trainingtrains.com/verify.

Can I do the Product Management internship online?+

Yes. You can do it fully online from home, or offline at our Erode and Perundurai branches. Tasks, quizzes and mentor reviews are the same in both modes.

Available both online (work from home) and offline at our Erode and Perundurai branches - see the full internship program details for departments, duration, and the application process.

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