Associate Product Manager Intern

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?

At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits.

As an Associate Product Manager (APM) Intern, you'll spend 12 weeks partnering with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to build products that bring the world onchain. You'll own a meaningful product area, ship real features used by millions of customers, and develop the strategic thinking that defines great product managers.

Product Group Teams

• Consumer: Shape the fastest way to access crypto through the Coinbase retail app, advanced trade, dApps, and staking, paving the way for the future onchain.
• Developer: Drive the roadmap for simple, secure APIs and SDKs that bring a million builders onchain across payments, trading, wallets, and stablecoins.
• Institutional: Lead product initiatives enabling thousands of large financial institutions to securely custody digital assets, stake, and participate in the crypto economy.
• Platform: Own product strategy for the scalable, compliant foundational systems (Identity, FinHub, Payments) that underpin all Coinbase products and leverage machine learning to drive intelligent automation.

Core Teams

• Enterprise Applications and Architecture (EAA): Drive the roadmap for internal platforms that enhance customer support, HR tools, and compliance through automation and customer-first engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the definition of product requirements and drive execution of a product launch alongside engineering, design, and data partners.
• Build a forward-looking product strategy for your assigned area using user research, market data, and competitive analysis.
• Lead user research and feedback loops to maintain a customer-centric approach and guide product decisions with measurable data.
• Set success metrics for your launches and analyze results at each stage to inform iteration and future roadmap priorities.
• Develop deep expertise in Coinbase's competitive position across the onchain ecosystem, including DeFi, NFTs, Layer 2 blockchains, and trading infrastructure.

Required Skills and Experience

• Prior internship or project experience in software product management, product design, or a technical cross-functional role where you shipped a product or feature.
• Demonstrated experience with cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, or crypto-powered products through coursework, personal projects, prior internships, or active participation in the ecosystem.
• Quantitative aptitude demonstrated through coursework, projects, or prior roles requiring data analysis, A/B testing, or metrics-driven decision-making.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.