#2 - Product Internships: The SECRET to Hacking a PM Internship
ft. Ng Chi Sin and Arnav Gupta • 26 January 2024
ft. Ng Chi Sin and Arnav Gupta • 26 January 2024
In this enlightening episode we delve into the world of product management through the eyes of two interns from distinctly different industries. Arnav from Tiktok and Chi Sin from Tribe both share their unique perspectives and invaluable insights on Product Internships.
Summary and key points
Introduction: How Arnav and Chi Sin met each other at Stockholm, as well as a brief introduction of their experiences
Prior Backgrounds: How Arnav pivoted from data roles, as well as how Chi Sin built her own application that led her to product
Application Process: Arnav and Chi Sin's tips on preparing for an internship application
Internship Experiences: Arnav and Chi Sin share the day-in-a-life of a product intern, as well as the challenges while interning as a student
Timestamps
0:24 Background of speakers
3:22 Pivoting into product management (PM)
10:41 Preparing for PM internships
17:57 Sharing of respective product internship experiences
Catch the key moments from this episode below!
Coming from an engineering background, Chi Sin’s first exposure to product management was through a passion project where she took on a product role without knowing what it entailed. Through that experience, she learned about building a consumer product and was later intrigued to join our club. As one of our Curriculum Executives, she has played a vital role in organising our first run of PM1101E and collaborating with SMU Product Club to host our first ever PM Career Series. With her energetic and bubbly personality, her experiences in emceeing some of our various events in our first semester has evidently contributed to her landing a product role at Tribe.
With his extensive experiences throughout his undergraduate career, Arnav has done it all - be it in terms of student life, academics or internships. Starting off his NUS journey in Ridge View Residential College, Arnav has progressively improved himself holistically - taking on leadership roles such as a Machine Learning Training Lead in NUS Fintech Society, as well as Vice President (Student Life) of the 24th Management Committee of NUS Students’ Computing Club. These experiences, along with his prior data internship roles at STACS and Bumble Labs - the latter which is a part of his NUS Overseas Colleges stint at Stockholm, have allowed him to make a gradual pivot to product. Most recently, he landed a role at TikTok as a Product Intern, and will be assisting our Partnerships Team to organise fireside chats with full-time PMs towards the later half of our second semester.