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[Careers](https://awardspring.com/careers)

# Product Builder Intern

-   Part-Time
-   Chicago, IL
-   Product Engineering

$25 - $35 / hour

[Apply for this role](https://awardspring.com/careers/product-builder-intern/apply)

## Who we are

AwardSpring is an established, growing SaaS company that partners with hundreds of colleges, universities, and foundations across the US and Canada to award scholarships and manage their donors. We complete the virtuous cycle of giving, getting, and giving again, on a mature, multi-tenant platform, with a small, focused team.

## About this role

This is one internship open to builders of any stripe: engineering, design, or product management. We are not asking you to pick a lane before you get here. Tell us what you have built and which of the three you want to spend your time on, and we will shape the work around it.

What matters is that you have shipped something real with AI tools. A side project, a class project, something you built because you wanted it to exist. What you made counts for more than where you went to school.

## How we work

We're an AI-native product team. Nearly 100% of the code in our product is AI-generated, and every IC (engineer, PM, designer) ships features end-to-end with agentic tooling. The lines between disciplines are intentionally blurred: PMs ship code, engineers make product calls, designers prototype in production. We hire for fluency in agentic development, not time in any one stack.

If you've been building this way on nights and weekends because your day job won't let you (rigid stack, no token budget, "that's not how we do things here"), this is the place where it's the actual job.

## What you'll do

-   Ship real, well-scoped work into a production codebase with actual users
-   Work with agentic tooling from day one, with senior review
-   Learn the codebase and our agent workflows quickly
-   Push back when a spec does not make sense

## Who you are

-   Currently a student or a recent graduate
-   Have built something with Claude Code, Cursor, or a comparable tool
-   Curious across disciplines, not just the one on your resume
-   Would rather iterate than wait for perfect direction

## What we give you

-   Top-tier AI tooling with unlimited token budgets
-   Day-one access to the latest models as they ship
-   A mature, multi-tenant production codebase with real users and real stakes
-   Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave

## Our values

ACTION

Take initiative, be accountable, share what you know.

DETERMINATION

Simplify and improve, get past obstacles with creativity and persistence.

HUMANITY

Empathy and kindness in every interaction.

IMPROVEMENT

Grow daily, add value to clients and teammates.

## A note on workspace

Hybrid, based in our West Loop / Fulton Market office in Chicago, roughly three days a week.

## AI in our hiring

We use AI tools to assist in screening applications and assessing fit. Final hiring decisions are made by humans. Prefer a review without AI assistance? Email our hiring team at [careers@awardspring.com](mailto:careers@awardspring.com) to request it. It will not disadvantage you.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

AwardSpring is an equal opportunity employer and hires without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We're committed to an inclusive, harassment-free workplace.

[Apply for this role](https://awardspring.com/careers/product-builder-intern/apply)