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Role Description

As a Product Owner Intern at xPL Studio, you will be embedded directly into one of our active SaaS venture builds. This is not a shadowing role; you will own real product decisions, work within a live agile team, and contribute to a product that is actively being shaped for market launch or growth.

• Work alongside our Head of New Ventures, technical leads, and business architects to bridge the gap between strategy and execution.
• Translate business needs into product requirements, manage a live backlog, and engage with real users and stakeholders.
• Participate in ideation and validation sprints to define product scope and user value propositions for early-stage SaaS ventures.
• Conduct competitive analysis and market research to inform product positioning and feature prioritization.
• Assist in defining and refining the product vision, goals, and success metrics (KPIs/OKRs).
• Own and maintain the product backlog, writing, grooming, and prioritizing user stories and epics in alignment with business objectives.
• Support sprint planning and retrospectives within an agile/scrum framework.
• Translate strategic initiatives into actionable, well-scoped development tickets.
• Facilitate user story mapping sessions to align cross-functional teams on product flows and MVP scope.
• Write clear, detailed acceptance criteria that enable engineering teams to build with precision.
• Identify and close gaps between user needs and technical feasibility.
• Act as the connective tissue between business stakeholders, designers, and developers.
• Prepare and present product updates, sprint reviews, and roadmap snapshots to internal leadership.
• Gather and synthesize feedback from user interviews, usability sessions, and analytics.
• Support subscription model design, onboarding flow optimization, and feature rollout planning.
• Contribute to go-to-market readiness by ensuring product documentation, release notes, and launch checklists are production-ready.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from an MBA program, with a focus on strategy, entrepreneurship, technology management, or innovation.
• Someone who is energized by ambiguity, not paralyzed by it.
• A structured thinker who can zoom out to see the strategy and zoom in to write a user story.

Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable working with data to inform decisions.
• Solid business acumen with the ability to connect product features to commercial outcomes.
• Technical curiosity; not afraid of APIs, SaaS architecture conversations, or sitting in a technical sprint.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and product tools such as Jira, Notion, Miro, or Productboard is a strong plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to simplify complexity without losing nuance.
• Prior experience in consulting, product, tech, or startups is an advantage, not a requirement.

Benefits

• Real-World Product Ownership: Leave with a tangible portfolio, a live SaaS product you helped shape, a backlog you owned, and outcomes you can quantify and speak to in any interview room.
• Executive Mentorship: Work directly with senior leaders in venture building, product strategy, and investment, gaining visibility and mentorship that is rare at the internship level.
• Studio Exposure: Get an inside view of how ventures are built from scratch, from ideation and validation to MVP launch and fundraising.
• Network & Community: Join a growing ecosystem of founders, operators, investors, and innovators across the EPL Group network.
• Potential for Full-Time Consideration: High-performing interns are considered for extended roles within xPL Studio's expanding portfolio of ventures.