Product Management Intern — UI/UX & Design Systems | Unpaid | Remote

Product Management Intern — UI/UX & Design Systems Unpaid Remote

Department: Product

Location: Remote — U.S.-Based Applicants Only

Duration: 3 months

Time Commitment: Approximately 20 hours per week

Compensation: Unpaid Internship

Academic Credit: May be available, subject to approval by the intern’s college or university

Applicants must currently reside in the United States for the duration of the internship.

Company Description

Sports Excitement is a global sports community platform designed to connect athletes, families, and fans in a single interactive space. The platform will work like a social network tailored specifically to sports, helping parents easily register children for teams and leagues while enabling users to follow their favorite sports, teams, and athletes. Sports Excitement will be free to download, with revenue generated through advertisements and premium features that help users expand their sports networks. The upcoming website launch will give early access to features and content as the community grows. By filling a unique niche in the sports industry, Sports Excitement aims to become the go-to destination for discovering sports opportunities and sharing a passion for athletics.

Internship Overview

The Product Management Internship — UI/UX & Design Systems at Sports Excitement is a remote, unpaid, three-month learning opportunity designed for individuals interested in gaining practical exposure to product management in a sports technology environment.

Interns will work with a designated supervisor and collaborate with product, design, and development team members on supervised projects involving customer discovery, UI/UX collaboration, product requirements, user flows, product analytics, and Agile development practices.

The internship is intended to provide participants with hands-on experience across different stages of the product lifecycle, while helping them strengthen skills in product thinking, documentation, research, analytics, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities & Learning Opportunities

• Participate in user research and customer discovery activities, including user interviews, note-taking, and organizing qualitative feedback.
• Assist with synthesizing research findings into user needs, customer problem statements, user personas, and product insights.
• Support the creation and refinement of Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Gain experience writing structured acceptance criteria using formats such as Given-When-Then when appropriate.
• Collaborate with UX and product design team members to review wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes.
• Support usability reviews and help identify opportunities to improve clarity, accessibility, navigation, and overall user experience.
• Gain exposure to design systems and help document or organize reusable UI patterns, components, and product design standards where applicable.
• Assist with mapping onboarding flows, user funnels, and other product journeys.
• Support the review and organization of basic product metrics, including engagement, retention, and user behavior data.
• Gain exposure to experimentation concepts such as A/B testing and hypothesis-driven product development.
• Participate in Agile team activities such as sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and other team members while receiving feedback and guidance throughout the internship.
• Document product decisions, requirements, assumptions, user insights, and relevant trade-offs.

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of product management, UI/UX, user-centered design, customer discovery, or Agile software development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an interest in understanding user needs and identifying root causes.
• Ability to organize information and communicate ideas clearly in written and verbal formats.
• Interest in learning how to write product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
• Basic understanding of user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, or digital product experiences.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, time management, and the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote, cross-functional environment.
• Relevant coursework, training, personal projects, portfolio work, volunteer …