Introduction

IBM Quantum is building the world’s leading quantum computing systems, software, and cloud services. The Product team plays a critical role in helping shape the user experience and offerings for IBM Quantum.  As a Product Management Intern, you will work with research and product teams to help build and deliver productive first class developer experience for how applied researchers use quantum computing services.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Product Management Intern, you will: Identify unmet or unknown needs of customers (e.g., computational chemists, optimization and quantum information researchers, enterprise R&D teams, quantum algorithm developers). 

Use quantitative analysis (e.g., usage data, job success rates, workload mix) and qualitative research (e.g., user interviews, support tickets, community forums). Scopes the impact of a problem, such as how many users it affects and what it costs them in time, QPU usage, or result quality. 

Recommend features or experiences to prioritize on the roadmap that support the team's success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Weigh customer value against technical constraints. 

Iterate on designs (e.g., APIs and SDK interfaces, workflow templates, documentation, results dashboards) with Design, Software Engineering, and Quantum Researchers. 

Collaborate with Product Marketing, Business Planning, Developer Relations, and Engineering to define release criteria (e.g., performance benchmarks against classical baselines, reliability thresholds, documentation readiness) and plans for customer acquisition and adoption. 

Build working knowledge of the quantum application stack (e.g., mapping a problem to a quantum algorithm, running circuits, error mitigation, classical post-processing). The goal is to translate accurately between what customers need and what the technology can do today.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Bachelors or higher degree in a STEM area.

• Experience collecting, segmenting, and synthesizing user and client feedback.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous business questions and deliver insights with limited guidance. 

• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Previous internship or work experience in product management, product design, software engineering, consulting, or at a startup.

• You've built and launched something with real users: an app, a side project, a tool for a club, a research project.

• Technical fluency from coursework or experience in computer science, engineering, or data science; comfortable talking through APIs, system constraints, or technical tradeoffs with engineers.

• SQL or Python for data analysis.

• Interest in physics, quantum computing and emerging technologies.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

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.

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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

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Product Management Intern 2027

Date posted

09-Oct-2026

Job ID

136426

City / Township / Village

Yorktown Heights

State / Province

New York

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Project Management

Employment type

Co-Op (Fixed Term)

Contract type

Internship

Projected Minimum Salary per year

63,840.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

117,040.00

Position type

Internship

Travel required

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No