[Hiring] Intern - Product Strategy @HARMAN International

Role Description

HARMAN's Software Experiences Business Unit (SEBU) builds software products that connect people to music. Our portfolio includes Roon, the leading music library management and playback platform for audiophiles, alongside new music products currently in development.

In this role you will help our product teams understand the people we build for. You will:

• Run competitive and user research across music discovery, streaming, and short-form content.
• Participate in the day-to-day work of a product team.
• Bring back the language, habits, and unmet needs of a younger audience in a form the team can act on.

This is a paid internship, and you will work as a member of the team rather than an observer. Length of the internship is dependent on when your new hire onboarding happens, but a typical program is 12 weeks.

You will:

• Join standups and reviews.
• Own your own research threads.
• Present what you learn directly to the people making product decisions.

Qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree program or higher at an accredited institution having completed your Sophomore year or later.
• Must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA.
• Preferred degree program in business, marketing, design, human-computer interaction, communications, music business, or a related field.
• Genuine curiosity about consumer products and how people find, share, and talk about music.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Comfort talking to people you do not know and running interviews.
• Organized and self-directed, able to manage several research threads at once.
• Comfortable working with survey results and simple data sets.
• Hands-on familiarity with platforms where music culture happens.
• Discretion with confidential product, partner, and roadmap information.

Requirements

• Track and analyze competitors and adjacent products to identify feature gaps, emerging trends, and unmet needs.
• Maintain a competitive tracker for the team covering feature releases and notable launches.
• Recruit and interview users in the 16 to 25 age range.
• Support structured usability and concept testing on new features and prototypes.
• Investigate how the target audience responds to curation and algorithmic recommendation.
• Study visual and interaction trends across music, social, and related apps.
• Listen to public conversation about products in our category and flag relevant themes.
• Support user feedback programs alongside the community and R&D teams.
• Keep the research repository usable and organized.
• Summarize findings regularly into short internal documents.
• Own one self-directed project and present your recommendation to the team.

Benefits

• Access to employee discounts on HARMAN and Samsung products.
• Learning and development opportunities through HARMAN University programs.
• Wellness benefits designed to support your overall well-being.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that supports both your professional and personal development.