Product Management Internship - Dexterity (September 2026)

Sanctuary AI; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanctuary AI, a world leader in humanoid robotics, offers an eight-month Technical Product Management Intern role starting September 2026. You will collaborate with engineering and customer-facing teams to define product requirements and align technical work with market needs.

Ideal candidates are final-year students or recent grads in engineering, CS, or business with strong analytical and communication skills, familiar with Jira/Confluence, and eager to learn how technology becomes scalable

Qualifications

• Enrolled in final year or recent graduate in Engineering, CS, Business or related field.
• Interest in product management, with ability to connect tech problems to customer needs.
• Familiarity with product development or project management methodologies.
• Proficient in data analysis, research, and modeling to support decisions.
• Comfortable using productivity tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Office.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate robot testing, including task selection, design collaboration, scheduling, and performance tracking.
• Analyze testing and operational data to identify insights to improve product performance and processes.
• Organize and maintain product requirements in requirements management tools with traceability.
• Support translation and ongoing improvement of development processes and tools.
• Lead requirements management ensuring cross-team alignment and traceability.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Independent work

Collaboration

Learning ability

Education

Final-year Bachelor’s in Engineering/CS/Business

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Microsoft Office

Job description

Sanctuary, a world leader in building physical AI for general-purpose robots, is looking to hire a Technical Product Management Intern for an eight-month term starting in September 2026. Reporting to the Senior Technical Product Manager, you will collaborate with technical and customer-facing teams to identify and document product requirements, support development planning, and connect technical implementation with customer, market, and business needs. You will contribute to projects spanning product definition, process development, and technical coordination, gaining exposure to the full product lifecycle. This internship is intended for a final-year student or recent graduate and may lead to consideration for a full-time position following successful completion of the term.

Our Success Criteria

• Coordinate robot testing, including task selection, design collaboration, scheduling, and performance tracking, and help coordinate customer or partner site visits.
• Analyze testing and operational data to identify insights that improve product performance and development processes.
• Organize and maintain product requirements within requirements management tools, ensuring accurate documentation, traceability, and alignment across teams, and support training and adoption of these tools.
• Support the translation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of product development and management processes and tools to ensure consistency and clarity across teams.
• Lead and maintain requirements management, ensuring traceability across programs, alignment with product objectives, and effective collaboration across engineering and testing teams.

Qualifications And Experience

• Currently enrolled in the final year of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, with an expected graduation date within 12 months following completion of the co-op term, or recently graduated from such a program.
• Demonstrated interest in product management, combining an understanding of how technology is developed, tested, and brought to market with the ability to connect technical problem-solving to customer and market needs.
• Familiarity with product development and/or project management methodologies.
• Proficient in data analysis, research, and modelling to support decision-making.
• Comfortable using productivity and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Office, JIRA, Confluence, or similar.
• Ability to assist with the design or modification of simple test fixtures or jigs as needed to support testing and troubleshooting activities is considered an asset.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand technical systems and translate them into clear product requirements.
• Comfortable discussing technical trade-offs and understanding how engineering choices influence product outcomes.
• Highly organized with excellent time-management and prioritization skills.
• Aptitude to learn and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment.
• Effective communicator, both written and verbal, able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Comfortable working independently and collaborating across engineering and commercial teams.
• Curious and motivated to learn how technology becomes a scalable product.

Traits

• A strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability, both individually and as part of a team.
• Positive, solutions-oriented attitude with a willingness to do what it takes to solve complex problems.
• Empathetic listener with strong collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
• Clear and confident communicator with excellent interpersonal abilities.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and capable of solving problems independently.
• Mission-driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to machines.

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary, is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Compensation And Benefits

Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.

About Sanctuary

Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.