PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT INTERN

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Product Strategy

Product Development

Product Discovery

AI

Systems Thinking

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Company: PopPop Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Department: Product, Strategy & Technology

Position: Product Development & Management Intern

Duration: 3 Months

Review Period: 1 Month

Work Mode: On-site

Location: M.G Road, Camp, Pune – 411001

ABOUT POPPOP LABS

PopPop Labs Pvt. Ltd. is a technology company developing products across Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Social Technology, Civic Technology and Intelligent Hardware.

Our current product ecosystem includes:

PopPop A social collaboration and experiences platform connecting people, communities, events, learning and work.

Poppy An intelligent robotics initiative focused on physical AI, robotics and human–robot interaction.

Oneevolution A civic-action platform connecting citizens, petitions, collective participation and institutional action.

PopBud An AI-powered voice-interaction and knowledge-capture device and platform designed for education and skilled environments.

We operate in an early-stage environment where product strategy, technology development, user research, experimentation and commercialization evolve simultaneously.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Product Development & Management Intern who wants to participate in the complete process of transforming an idea into a functioning technology product.

This is a cross-functional role positioned between product management, product strategy, design, technology and business.

You will work across

Problem Discovery → Research → Product Strategy → Product Requirements → Design → Development → Testing → Launch → Analytics → Iteration The ideal candidate should be able to move between strategic thinking and practical execution.

You will not simply coordinate between teams.

You will help answer

What should we build, why should we build it, for whom, how should it work, and how will we know whether it succeeded?CORE RESPONSIBILITIES1. PRODUCT DISCOVERY

Research and identify meaningful user problems.

Activities may include

- User interviews
- Customer discovery
- Market research
- Competitive analysis
- User-behavior analysis
- Persona development
- Customer journey mapping
- Pain-point identification
- Opportunity mapping
- Product research

Translate observations into structured product opportunities.
1. PRODUCT STRATEGY

Assist in defining product direction through:
- Market analysis
- User segmentation
- Competitive intelligence
- Product positioning
- Opportunity sizing
- Feature prioritization
- Product-market-fit research
- Go-to-market considerations
- Product differentiation

Evaluate opportunities using: User Value × Business Impact × Technical Feasibility × Strategic Value × Execution Complexity

1. PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS

Convert ideas into clear and executable product specifications.

Create and maintain

- Product Requirement Documents
- Feature specifications
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- User flows
- Product workflows
- Edge-case documentation

A strong requirement should establish: Who is the user?

What problem are we solving?

Why does it matter?

What are we building?

What are we not building?

How should it behave?

How will success be measured?

1. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Work closely with engineering and design teams throughout development.

Participate in

- Feature planning
- Sprint planning
- Backlog management
- Development reviews
- Product demos
- QA
- Bug triage
- Release planning
- Feature validation

Ensure that product requirements are translated accurately into functioning products.
1. POPPOP PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Potential areas include:
- Event discovery
- Event creation
- Community creation
- Social interaction
- Chat
- User profiles
- Search
- Recommendations
- Venue discovery
- Ticketing
- Payments
- Notifications
- Collaboration
- User onboarding
- Community management

Understand the interaction between: Users ↔ Communities ↔ Events ↔ Venues ↔ Creators ↔ Brands

1. ONEEVOLUTION PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Potential areas include:
- Petition creation
- Petition discovery
- Digital signatures
- Campaign pages
- Citizen participation
- Community engagement
- Progress tracking
- Ward-based discovery
- Institutional workflows
- Notifications
- Crowd-pooling interfaces

Help design the user journey: Problem → Citizen Action → Petition → Collective Participation → Submission → Institutional Response → Outcome

1. POPBUD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Potential areas include:




- Voice recording
- Speech-to-text
- AI summarization
- Voice interaction
- Searchable voice notes
- Knowledge organization
- Conversation history
- Education workflows
- Workplace communication
- Device onboarding
- Hardware/software synchronization

You may work across: Hardware → Application → AI → Cloud → User Experience

1. POPPY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Work on software and product experiences surrounding the robotics ecosystem.

Potential areas include

- Robot onboarding
- User interfaces
- Voice interaction
- Robot configuration
- Remote interaction
- Robot status
- Telemetry
- AI interaction
- Human–robot interaction
- Device connectivity

Understand the system: User → Application → Cloud → AI → Robot

1. PRODUCT ROADMAP

Assist in developing and maintaining product roadmaps.

Work may include

- Feature planning
- Release planning
- Milestone definition
- Dependencies
- Technical constraints
- Launch sequencing
- Priority management
- Product lifecycle planning

Learn to distinguish:

Urgent vs Important and

Interesting vs Valuable.

1. FEATURE PRIORITIZATION

Evaluate features using structured methodologies such as:
- RICE
- MoSCoW
- Kano
- Impact vs Effort
- Opportunity scoring
- Cost-benefit analysis
- User-value analysis

The objective is not merely to apply frameworks, but to develop sound product judgment.

1. PRODUCT ANALYTICS

Assist in defining and analyzing product metrics.

Potential metrics include

- Acquisition
- Activation
- Engagement
- Retention
- Conversion
- Churn
- Feature adoption
- Session frequency
- User-generated activity
- Revenue
- Network activity

Develop: North Star Metric → Supporting Metrics → Diagnostic Metrics where appropriate.

1. EXPERIMENTATION

Design and evaluate product experiments.

Workflow

Hypothesis → Experiment → Measurement → Data → Analysis → Decision

Experiments may include

- A/B tests
- Prototype tests
- Onboarding experiments
- Feature experiments
- Pricing experiments
- Landing-page experiments
- User-flow experiments

Learn to distinguish between: Assumption → Evidence → Insight → Validated Learning

1. AI PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

PopPop Labs operates across products where AI can become a fundamental product layer.

Potential areas include

- Large Language Models
- AI assistants
- Speech-to-text
- Text-to-speech
- AI summarization
- Recommendation systems
- Semantic search
- Personalization
- Classification
- Computer vision
- Conversational interfaces

You will learn to evaluate: When should AI be used?

What should remain deterministic?

What happens when the model is uncertain?

How should AI outputs be presented to users?

1. HUMAN–COMPUTER INTERACTION

Develop an understanding of how users interact with technology.

Work may involve

- Information architecture
- User flows
- Interaction design
- Cognitive load
- Accessibility
- Error states
- Feedback mechanisms
- Voice interfaces
- Conversational interfaces
- Physical interfaces

Particularly for Poppy and PopBud, product interaction may extend beyond traditional screens.
1. DESIGN COLLABORATION

Work closely with UI/UX designers.

Responsibilities may include

- Reviewing wireframes
- Reviewing prototypes
- Creating user flows
- Defining interaction requirements
- Identifying edge cases
- Conducting usability reviews
- Translating research into design requirements

1. ENGINEERING COLLABORATION

Work closely with developers and technical teams.

Participate in

- Technical discussions
- Feature estimation
- Technical trade-offs
- Sprint planning
- QA
- Bug triage
- Release validation

The objective is to ensure that: The right problem → is solved → for the right user → in the right way.

1. PRODUCT QUALITY

Participate in:
- Test cases
- Acceptance testing
- Regression testing
- User-flow testing
- Edge-case identification
- Bug triage
- Release validation

Learn to distinguish between: A technical defect and A product-design problem.

1. PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION

Create and maintain:
- PRDs
- Feature specifications
- Product roadmaps
- User flows
- Research reports
- Competitive analyses
- Experiment documentation
- Product decisions
- Release documentation





Documentation should be sufficiently precise that another team member can understand the decision without requiring a verbal explanation.
1. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

Work across multiple functions, including:
- Engineering
- AI
- Robotics
- UI/UX
- Marketing
- Business Development
- Operations
- Leadership

Learn how product decisions affect the entire organization. PRODUCT MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS

You may be exposed to:

- Product discovery
- Jobs-to-be-Done
- Design thinking
- Lean startup methodology
- Agile
- Scrum
- User-centered design
- Systems thinking
- First-principles reasoning
- Hypothesis-driven development
- Product-market fit
- Growth loops
- Network effects
- Platform economics
- Behavioral analytics
- Human–computer interaction

IDEAL CANDIDATE We are looking for candidates who combine:

Analytical Thinking + Creativity + Technology Literacy + Execution

You should naturally ask

- Why does this problem exist?
- Who experiences it?
- How frequently does it occur?
- How is it currently solved?
- Why are existing solutions insufficient?
- What would users actually adopt?
- What is the smallest viable solution?
- How do we measure success?
- What are the second-order effects?
- How does this feature affect the broader product ecosystem?

PREFERRED BACKGROUNDS

Candidates studying

- Product Management
- Business
- Management
- Engineering
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science
- Design
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Robotics
- Human–Computer Interaction
- Psychology
- Public Policy

or related disciplines are encouraged to apply. Cross-disciplinary candidates are particularly welcome.

SKILLSEssential

- Analytical thinking
- Research
- Communication
- Structured problem solving
- Documentation
- Presentation
- Basic technology understanding
- Product curiosity

Preferred
- Figma
- Jira
- Notion
- Linear
- Firebase Analytics
- SQL
- Excel / Google Sheets
- User research
- Product analytics
- A/B testing
- API fundamentals
- AI tools
- Agile/Scrum
- Basic programming

PERFORMANCE & REVIEW The first month will function as a structured review period. Performance may be evaluated on:
- Product thinking
- Research depth
- Quality of PRDs
- Problem identification
- Feature prioritization
- Analytical reasoning
- Communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Execution
- Attention to detail
- Ownership
- Ability to operate under ambiguity

High-performing interns may receive progressively greater ownership over specific product areas.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE

Applicants may be asked to complete a short product case.

Example

“Choose one PopPop Labs product. Identify a significant user problem, explain why it matters, propose an MVP solution, define its core user flow, identify success metrics and describe how you would validate the concept.”

Applicants will be evaluated on:

Problem Selection + User Understanding + Product Judgment + Technical Awareness + Analytical Reasoning + Clarity of Thought

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

You will experience the complete product lifecycle:

Problem Discovery

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User Research

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Opportunity Identification

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Product Strategy

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PRD

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Design

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Development

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Testing

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Launch

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Analytics

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Iteration

You will also gain exposure to products spanning:

AI × Robotics × Social Technology × Civic Technology × Intelligent Hardware

WHY POPPOP LABS?

At PopPop Labs, product development is not limited to building software features.

You will encounter problems involving:

Artificial Intelligence, robotics, social networks, civic participation, voice interfaces, intelligent hardware, platform economics, human–computer interaction and emerging technology.

You will learn to think about products as systems of users, technology, incentives, behavior and measurable outcomes.

APPLICATION

Please submit

- Resume
- Product/design/technology portfolio, if available
- Any product, startup or technical project you have worked on
- Answer the following in 300 words or less:

“Choose one PopPop Labs product. What is the most important user problem you would investigate before building its next major feature, and how would you validate it?”

We are looking for

Clarity of thought + intellectual curiosity + product judgment + execution ability.

PopPop Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Building products at the intersection of intelligence, technology, human interaction and real-world systems.

Pay: ₹5,000.00 - ₹8,000.00 per month

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pune, Maharashtra

📌 Product Management Intern (Pune)
🏢 PopPop Labs
📍 Pune