AI Product Strategy & Prototyping Intern

Astera Labs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 76,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Housing stipend

Mentorship program

Job summary

Astera Labs is seeking an AI-focused product intern to collaborate with cross-functional teams on identifying high-value AI opportunities, defining requirements, and moving concepts from pilot to adoption. You’ll prototype with tools like Glean and Claude Code, gather feedback, and help plan rollout strategies.

The role emphasizes turning ambiguous needs into structured requirements, measurable outcomes, and a plan with clear milestones. This paid U.S.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a graduate degree in business, technology, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Demonstrated interest in AI-enabled products and experience using AI tools in practical work, academic projects, or prototypes.
• Strong business and analytical judgment; able to connect user problems to measurable outcomes and make clear prioritization trade-offs.
• Ability to turn ambiguous needs into structured requirements, a manageable scope, and an actionable plan.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews and workflow discovery across business functions to understand user needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Evaluate and prioritize AI product opportunities based on user value, business impact, feasibility, risk, and dependencies.
• Translate needs into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and a scoped pilot or MVP.
• Collaborate with engineering, IT, security, data, and business teams to align on solution design, dependencies, milestones, and decision points.
• Build or configure lightweight prototypes using AI tools and bring prototypes to users for feedback.
• Define success measures and use results to recommend next steps (adoption, quality, cycle time, time saved, user satisfaction, risk reduction).
• Help plan testing, rollout, communications, documentation, and ongoing feedback for selected solutions.
• Keep product decisions, assumptions, risks, and learnings visible to the team with privacy, security, and responsible AI in mind.

Skills

Product management interest

AI tools experience

Business analysis

Excellent communication

Education

MBA candidate or graduate student

Graduate degree pursuit in relevant field

Tools

Glean

Claude Code

LLM-based tools

Workflow automation

Job description

Astera Labs is seeking an AI-focused product intern to collaborate with cross-functional teams on identifying high-value AI opportunities, defining requirements, and moving concepts from pilot to adoption. You’ll prototype with tools like Glean and Claude Code, gather feedback, and help plan rollout strategies.

The role emphasizes turning ambiguous needs into structured requirements, measurable outcomes, and a plan with clear milestones. This paid U.S.