Job Description

Product Manager Intern

BalkanID, a venture-backed cybersecurity company backed by top-tier investors, seeks a Product Manager Intern with a consumer product mindset.

Product Management at BalkanID sits at the intersection of engineering, go-to-market, and business strategy. We shape high-level product goals but also get our hands dirty. On any given day, you will work on product epics + stories, conduct user research, analyze product usage data, or pair with an engineer on product iteration and go-live implementation.

If you enjoy solving challenging problems and breaking through barriers, you will appreciate this opportunity to work with a solid entrepreneurial team with successful prior exits, building a disruptive set of capabilities in identity and access management.

What You'll Do

• Author product use cases and detailed requirements. Translate market observations and customer feedback into a prioritized product backlog.
• Manage our product roadmap by working closely with engineering and data science. Opine on tough tactical prioritization decisions while helping the company think long-term. Build trust with stakeholders by maintaining an understandable, accurate roadmap.
• Understand the Identity Security and Governance markets and capabilities, as well as adjacent Security offerings (CIEM, SSPM, etc.)
• Conduct competitive analyses and maintain current information regarding competitive activity
• Relentlessly iterate on capabilities within a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications:

• BS, or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years of product management or equivalent experience in Cyber Security with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities and then define and deliver products.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Define and document product epics tied to complex product stories and tasks of a broad scope using independent judgment.
• Experience balancing execution, agility, and culture at a fast-growing startup environment.
• Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications and data systems.
• Deep customer and stakeholder empathy. You must be not only the voice of the customer, but at various times the voice of marketing, engineering, support and ops. You must be able to channel many points of view.
• Experience working with data analysis at scale. An understanding of how to make big data small.

Nice to haves:

• Experience building or working with identity management solutions, AWS IAM, Okta, Sailpoint, Microsoft Entra etc.
• Experience building robust and scalable full-stack applications, and experience with one or more database systems (SQL, NoSQL), etc.
• Experience with one or more of modern UI frameworks such as Angular, React, Knockout, Vue.js and HTML5, CSS preprocessors.
• Prior experience in a Product/SaaS startup company is a plus.

Key behaviors/skills we're looking for:

• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Strong written and verbal communication with engineers and non-engineers alike.
• An analytical thinker who brings a creative mindset to problem-solving.
• Ability to translate user requirements into a comprehensive, well-formed and relevant set of technical specifications that engineers can comprehend and execute on.
• Team player, able to work autonomously on problems and deliver solutions.

Why This Matters

This internship is designed for individuals who want to go beyond checkboxes and learn how to build something end to end. You'll see how startups operate, work directly with experienced engineers and founders, and contribute to mission-critical areas of the business.

At BalkanID, all entry level full-time hires start as interns—it's a two-way process:

• You prove you're a force multiplier for the company.
• We prove we're a force multiplier for your career.

Compensation and Commitment

Our internships are only full time but remote (you can work from anywhere) and require a minimum of 3 months commitment. Our internships may not pay as much cash as large companies, but they are always paid. Interns also receive equity in the company (typically not common in the industry).

How to Apply

To apply, email internships@balkan.id with:

• Why you want to work at BalkanID
• What do you want to work on at BalkanID
• What unique value you bring to the table (something that may differentiate you from rest of the applications)
• What is the most challenging and impactful project you have worked on
• Your resume

About us

At our company, the customer is at the center of everything we do. Our core values center around transparency, continuous learning, and, above all, customer obsession. We realize that to deliver the best customer outcomes, we need to hire and develop the best - so join us as we disrupt the identity and access management industry!

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