Product Manager Intern (2027) - Lisbon, PT

Description

The company runs one of the largest networks in the world, serving millions of websites and Internet properties, from individual bloggers to Fortune 500 companies. It protects and speeds up any Internet application without extra hardware, software installs, or code changes, and traffic routed through its global network gets faster and sees fewer spam and attack problems.

The company is looking for builders who notice long-standing Internet problems people have stopped questioning, and who use the latest AI tools to build fixes. The team iterates quickly, uses AI to ship sooner, and shares every improvement across the group. Curiosity over bureaucracy and comfort with AI as a problem-solving partner are a good fit.

The network spans more than 330 cities in over 125 countries and reaches 95% of the Internet-connected population within 50 milliseconds. Product decisions here affect millions of properties, including websites, remote team tools, APIs and mobile apps.

The Product Management team sets vision, strategy and roadmap for features across this global network. Product managers work with engineering, design, sales and marketing to balance user needs, technical feasibility and business impact, covering areas such as APIs, control plane workflows, and security and performance features.

This internship runs during summer 2027 in Lisbon, Portugal, from May to September. You will own real product initiatives, gather customer insights, define requirements and push projects from idea to launch alongside experienced engineers and designers. The role suits curious, user-focused, analytical people who get things done and want to learn to scale products.

The internship blog covers the program and includes stories from past interns.

Responsibilities

• Act as the voice of the user and own a project that improves existing products, the user experience and key features.
• Run user research and competitive analysis to find pain points and opportunities that make the tools best in class.
• Work closely with engineering, design and product leaders to build your vision, keeping features to spec, meeting user expectations and solving hard technical problems at scale.
• Help set success metrics and make sure launched features are technically sound, deliver measurable business value and solve real problems for users.
• Analyze challenges on your own initiative, weigh technical feasibility against user needs, and turn market constraints into chances to innovate and grow.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Business, Engineering or a related field.
• Strong passion for technology and real empathy for user needs.
• Technical literacy to understand architecture and the workflows of developers.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Clear written and spoken communication, able to explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical people alike.
• Self-starter who works well with ambiguity and takes initiative.
• Able to commit to a full-time, 40 hours per week, 12-week internship.
• Expected to be in the office 3, 5 days per week in Lisbon, PT.
• Bonus: familiarity with networking, security or Zero Trust concepts such as TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS.
• Bonus: hands-on experience with developer tools, APIs or personal projects using the company products, such as the company for Students.
• Bonus: prior experience writing product specs, building wireframes or running user research.
• Bonus: basic coding skills or comfort with command-line tools and developer workflows.

Conditions

Pay for Portugal-based hires is €2,450 per month.

Hiring happens on a rolling basis until roles are filled.

Remote and part-time applicants are not considered. The role is full-time, 40 hours per week, on site during standard business hours, typically 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

You should not be enrolled in classes that clash with the internship term.

Applicants who reach the offer stage may be asked to interview in person at a the company office or hub, with details shared at that point.

This role may involve information covered by U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer may depend on your authorization to receive controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license.

Equal opportunity: applicants are considered without regard to protected characteristics.

Benefits

• Project Galileo has provided free enterprise-grade security tools to more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries since 2014.
• The Athenian Project, started in 2017, gives free, strong protection to state and local government election websites, currently covering more than 425 sites in 33 states.
• The public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 is free for anyone and was the company's first consumer service. The company does not store client IP addresses and does not sell user data to advertisers or use it for ad targeting.