Product Management Intern, Agentic AI

Parspec; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work environment

Direct mentorship with product leaders

Opportunity to own a live AI product

Job summary

Parspec is seeking an AI product management intern to work with our product leadership on an AI quoting agent core to distributors and rep agencies. You will own a piece end to end—from customer discovery to a concrete engineering-ready spec—and help shape the business model behind it.

You will talk to real customers, write requirements, and build prototypes. This internship offers direct exposure to Parspec's leadership, ownership of a live AI product segment, and a path to a future in AI

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field
• Strong analytical skills, including comfort working through usage data, unit economics, and pricing trade-offs
• Structured problem-solving ability: break ambiguous questions into an executable plan
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including customer interview and writing a spec engineers can build
• Real ownership mentality: shipped results without close management
• Genuine interest in AI products, able to articulate what works and what does not

Responsibilities

• Interview distributor and rep agency users to understand how quotes are built today, step by step
• Map the quoting workflow end to end and identify where an AI agent delivers value
• Turn learnings into a clear, prioritized view of what the agent should do next
• Build prototypes to test agent workflows with real users before engineering builds
• Translate customer needs into product requirements and an engineering-ready spec
• Define success metrics: accuracy, time saved, trust, adoption
• Set release criteria for the agent's reliability in real-world scenarios
• Analyze how pricing models for AI-powered work could affect margins and customer value

Skills

Analytical skills

Interviewing customers

Ownership mindset

Curiosity about AI products

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Business, Economics, Engineering, CS, Data Analytics or related

Job description

About Parspec

Founded in 2021, Parspec is revolutionizing the materials supply chain for the $13 trillion USD construction industry by digitizing and organizing the industry's product data. Our proprietary AI technology maintains a current and comprehensive catalogue of millions of products, enabling our customers to instantly identify the products that best meet their needs. Trusted by top designers, builders, distributors, manufacturers, and sales agents, and backed by leading venture investors, Parspec is paving the way for a more innovative, connected, and sustainable future in construction.

Join us in building transformative technology that reshapes one of the world's oldest and largest industries.

The Opportunity

What does it take to turn an AI agent into a product customers trust and pay for? That question sits at the heart of this internship.

We are looking for an intern to work alongside Parspec's product leadership on our AI quoting agent, the product at the center of how distributors and rep agencies build quotes. You will own a piece of it end to end, from customer discovery through an engineering-ready product spec, and help shape the business model behind it. Quoting is the beating heart of our customers' business. It is also messy, manual, and full of judgment calls, which is exactly what makes it both a hard and a valuable problem for an AI agent to take on.

This is not a shadowing role. You will talk to real customers, write requirements that engineers build against, and build prototypes. If you see yourself becoming an AI product leader or founding a company someday, this is a chance to work on the two problems that define AI product management right now: making agents reliable and making them commercially viable.

What You Will Achieve and Key Responsibilities

Define what to build

• Interview distributor and rep agency users to understand how quotes get built today, step by step, including the workarounds and judgment calls that never show up in a process diagram

• Map the quoting workflow end to end and identify where an AI agent delivers the most value, and where human judgment needs to stay in the loop

• Turn what you learn into a clear, prioritized view of what the agent should do next, backed by customer evidence rather than intuition

Prototype and validate

• Build working prototypes to test agent workflows with real users before engineering commits to a full build

• Translate customer needs into product requirements and an engineering-ready spec for your piece of the agent

• Define the success metrics that tell us the agent is actually working: accuracy, time saved, trust, and adoption

• Set the release criteria the agent must meet before it reaches customers, including how we evaluate reliability on real-world quoting scenarios

Shape AI pricing

• Analyze the value the agent creates for customers, how usage actually behaves, and what it costs us to serve

• Study how other AI products charge for agentic work, from seats to usage to outcomes, and what those models would mean for our customers and our margins

• Recommend how Parspec should charge for AI-powered work, with the analysis to back it up, and present it to leadership

Why This Matters

Every software company is racing to put AI agents in front of customers. Very few have figured out the two things that actually matter: making the agent reliable enough that customers trust it with real work, and pricing it so the business works. Parspec is live in the market with AI doing real quoting work for real customers, which means these are not thought experiments here. The quality bar you set shapes what customers experience, and the pricing model you recommend shapes how the company grows. Few internships put you that close to the decisions that matter.

Who You Are

You are curious about how products get built and sold. You like talking to users as much as you like working through data, and you can hold both the customer's reality and the business model in your head at the same time. You write clearly, you ask sharp questions, and you are comfortable forming a view on a problem nobody has fully solved yet. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and go deep into a messy workflow to map complex processes and identify how AI can enhance them. You do not need to be an AI engineer, but you need to be genuinely curious about how AI agents work, what makes them fail, and what makes people trust them.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree (undergraduate or graduate) in Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field

• Strong analytical skills, including comfort working through usage data, unit economics, and pricing trade-offs

• Structured problem-solving ability: you can break an ambiguous question down into an answerable workplan

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to run a customer interview and write a spec an engineer can build from

• A real ownership mentality: you have taken something from question to shipped result without being managed through it

• Genuine interest in AI products: you have used them seriously, formed opinions on what works and what does not, and can articulate why

Preferred Experience

• Prior professional experience in product management, consulting, software engineering, or a startup operating role

• Hands-on experience building with or evaluating LLMs and AI agents, even on personal projects

• Exposure to B2B SaaS business models, pricing and packaging work, or product discovery methods

• Interest in construction, building materials, industrial distribution, or vertical SaaS businesses

• Experience in fast-paced or early-stage startup environments

What We Offer

• Direct, sustained working exposure to Parspec's product leadership

• Ownership of a live piece of an AI product that real customers use, with a spec and a pricing recommendation the company acts on

• Hands-on experience with the two defining challenges of AI product management: making agents reliable and making them commercially viable

• A strong foundation and a credible story for future roles in AI product management, product leadership, or founding

• Flexible hybrid work environment

Join Us and Lead the Transformation!

At Parspec, we recognize that traditional job descriptions don't always capture the full range of your unique abilities, and that's perfectly okay. You may not meet every requirement, but if you bring a mix of experiences, fresh perspectives, and a passion that aligns with our mission, we want to hear from you!

The Parspec team believes that varied backgrounds drive better outcomes and fuel innovation. We are a team of self-starters who lead from every seat. We think big, set a standard of excellence, and are committed to diversity and a discrimination-free workplace. We welcome applicants from all walks of life to join us and help shape the future of our industry.