Product Manager Internship 2026 (12 to 16 months)

Introduction

Product Managers play a pivotal role in shaping offerings that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to solve complex business challenges. IBM follows a structured product lifecycle management process, integrating agile methodologies, data-informed decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration. Product Managers work across engineering, design, data science, and go-to-market teams to deliver innovative, secure, and scalable AI-powered solutions.

Your role and responsibilities

The responsibilities of a Product Manager include:

• Define and drive product strategy for AI and data-centric offerings, aligning with business goals and user needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, engineers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality features and models.
• Translate complex technical capabilities (e.g., ML models, data pipelines, APIs) into clear product requirements and user stories.
• Prioritize product backlog using data-driven frameworks and ensure alignment with roadmap and KPIs.
• Facilitate ethical AI practices by integrating fairness, transparency, and compliance into product development.
• Monitor product performance using analytics tools and user feedback to iterate and improve continuously.
• Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress to internal and external stakeholders, including executives and customers.
• Champion user experience and usability in AI interfaces, ensuring intuitive and trustworthy interactions.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong product management fundamentals: roadmap planning, backlog grooming, stakeholder alignment, and go-to-market execution.
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts, data lifecycle, and model deployment practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery.
• Proficiency in product analytics tools and data visualization platforms
• Strong communication and storytelling skills to translate technical insights into business value.
• Ability to manage dependencies across teams and anticipate risks in product delivery.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with enterprise AI products or platforms
• Exposure to AI ethics frameworks and responsible AI practices.
• Comfortable working with global teams across time zones and cultures.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Client-provided location(s): Markham, Canada

Job ID: IBM-56588

Employment Type: INTERN

Posted: 2025-09-05T18:52:11