Product Management Intern (2027 Summer Internship)

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end advertising solutions for businesses to reach monetize and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin visit: .

To deliver on this mission our global team is composed of team members with life experiences backgrounds and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin we are intentional about the team and culture we are building seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

At AppLovin we believe the future of social platforms isnt just about entertainment its about meaningful value exchange. We are building a next-generation global content platform that empowers people to turn real-life experiences into inspiring useful stories that help others grow. This isnt another short-form video app. Its a platform where authentic sharing matters where people from diverse backgrounds and life stages can contribute find content they actually need and be rewarded for the value they create.
Backed by AppLovins world-class technology data capabilities and global reach we are a small high-caliber founding team building this from the ground up and were looking for a Product Manager Intern for Summer 2027 who wants to be part of it from the earliest days.

About the Team
Our product team sits at the intersection of user behaviour content ecosystems and data. We debate ideas rigorously take ownership seriously and move with startup speed. As a PM intern you wont be running meeting notes or maintaining backlogs. Youll be embedded in a real product area user growth content contribution discovery or creator incentives working alongside PMs engineers and designers on problems that directly shape the platforms trajectory.

About Gist
Gist is a new social media platform for people who want substance practical thoughtful content that spans philosophy debates city-specific recommendations seasonal gift guides and wellness tips. Across categories like travel food career and family we describe it as a handbook for the curious.
Gist is built by AppLovin Corporation a company that hit $5.3B in revenue last year and sits alongside Google and Meta as one of the worlds leading ad tech platforms. Fortune recognizes AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area and the company has been a Certified Great Place to Work for the last four years ().

What Youll Do

• Own a focused internship project within a defined product area from problem framing and user research through to spec execution and measurement.
• Conduct user research and synthesise behavioural insights to surface clear actionable product opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineers and designers to define requirements align on trade-offs and ship features iteratively.
• Analyse product metrics and experiment results to form a point of view on whats working and what isnt.
• Contribute to discussions on content growth contributor incentives or discovery with your own perspective not just support work.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelors degree or above in any field Computer Science Business Cognitive Science Economics and related disciplines are all welcome.
• Strong user empathy and genuine curiosity about why people share content what makes it valuable and how platforms shape behaviour.
• Comfortable working with data you can form a hypothesis look at numbers critically and update your thinking based on what you find.
• Clear communicator who can articulate a problem a trade-off or a recommendation to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excited about building in ambiguous fast-moving environments where the product is still being defined.

Good To Have

• Any prior experience in product strategy growth UX research or data analysis internships coursework projects or student org work all count.
• Familiarity with product tools such as Figma Amplitude Mixpanel or SQL.
• Personal interest in content platforms creator ecosystems community products or social apps and a considered opinion on what makes them work or fail.
• Exposure to experimentation concepts (A/B testing metric frameworks funnel analysis).