Product Builder Intern

Awardspring; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

AwardSpring is seeking an intern who can contribute across engineering, design, or product management. We value what you have built with AI tools and your willingness to explore multiple disciplines. You will shape work around your strengths and ship tangible features on a production codebase.

Join a fluent AI-native product team in Chicago's West Loop, with hybrid days, real users, and a culture that rewards curiosity, rapid iteration, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Currently a student or a recent graduate.
• Have built something with Claude Code, Cursor, or a comparable tool.
• Curious across disciplines, not just the one on your resume.
• Would rather iterate than wait for perfect direction.

Responsibilities

• Ship real, well-scoped work into a production codebase with actual users
• Work with agentic tooling from day one, with senior review
• Learn the codebase and our agent workflows quickly
• Push back when a spec does not make sense

Skills

Interdisciplinary curiosity

Iterative mindset

Ship real work with AI tools

Education

Student or recent graduate

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Who we are

AwardSpring is an established, growing SaaS company that partners with hundreds of colleges, universities, and foundations across the US and Canada to award scholarships and manage their donors. We complete the virtuous cycle of giving, getting, and giving again, on a mature, multi-tenant platform, with a small, focused team.

About this role

This is one internship open to builders of any stripe: engineering, design, or product management. We are not asking you to pick a lane before you get here. Tell us what you have built and which of the three you want to spend your time on, and we will shape the work around it.

What matters is that you have shipped something real with AI tools. A side project, a class project, something you built because you wanted it to exist. What you made counts for more than where you went to school.

How we work

We're an AI-native product team. Nearly 100% of the code in our product is AI-generated, and every IC (engineer, PM, designer) ships features end-to-end with agentic tooling. The lines between disciplines are intentionally blurred: PMs ship code, engineers make product calls, designers prototype in production. We hire for fluency in agentic development, not time in any one stack.

If you've been building this way on nights and weekends because your day job won't let you (rigid stack, no token budget, "that's not how we do things here"), this is the place where it's the actual job.

What you’ll do

• Ship real, well-scoped work into a production codebase with actual users
• Work with agentic tooling from day one, with senior review
• Learn the codebase and our agent workflows quickly
• Push back when a spec does not make sense

Who you are

• Currently a student or a recent graduate
• Have built something with Claude Code, Cursor, or a comparable tool
• Curious across disciplines, not just the one on your resume
• Would rather iterate than wait for perfect direction

What we give you

• Top-tier AI tooling with unlimited token budgets
• Day-one access to the latest models as they ship
• A mature, multi-tenant production codebase with real users and real stakes
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave

Our values

• Lead with humanity. Genuine empathy for our team, our customers, and the students and donors they serve. That includes candor, saying the hard thing because you respect the person enough to say it.
• Take smart risks. Urgency. Bold, informed bets before the picture is fully clear. Run the experiment instead of winning the debate.
• Take pride in the process. Fast is the standard and thoughtfulness is non-negotiable. Eyes on the work you control, not the scoreboard.
• Own the results. We measure everything. Accountability runs on data, not vibes, and we can tell the difference between an honest miss and a broken process.

A note on workspace

Hybrid, based in our West Loop / Fulton Market office in Chicago, roughly three days a week.