Spring 2025 Paid Intern, Product & Technology Department

The ACLU seeks a Product Manager Intern, in the Product & Technology Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY.

The Team:

The ACLU’s Product & Technology team partners with departments across the ACLU in order to build and maintain innovative, robust and secure digital products and technical systems that accelerate the ACLU’s mission as our nationwide guardian of rights and liberties. We are a team of engineers, designers, product managers and administrators who take pride in creating technical solutions that help raise money, get our message out in the world, mobilize our supporters, and manage our data with integrity.

What You'll Do:

Reporting to a Senior Product Manager, the Product Manager Intern will join our Data Pod, which enables the ACLU to optimize relationships with supporters through data. The Product Manager Intern will work collaboratively with tech team members and internal stakeholders to support product development for data and infrastructure products, services and platforms. The Product Manager Intern will play a role in building products to enable engagement, fundraising, and providing actionable and valuable data across our ecosystem. 

Your Day to Day:

• Collaborate with product and technology staff and stakeholders to define the strategy and implementation plan for various data and infrastructure projects
• Support the launch plans and product team communications about product work with stakeholders
• Work with product and technology staff and stakeholders to explore and define future product features, creating requirements and product definition artifacts to ensure common understanding of goals, needs, requirements, and solutions
• Leverage analytics to understand use behavior and trends in product engagement and use
• Create external presentations, training materials, and other onboarding artifacts to ensure successful adoption and usage of product launches
• Prepare and deliver presentations on products and project timelines, requirements, and evidence to team members and stakeholders to build alignment or gain support for new projects
• Manage testing workflows by creating test plans, supporting QA, and leading UAT with stakeholders
• Center principles of equity, inclusion, and belonging in all work, embedding the values in program development, policy application, and organizational practices and processes

What You’ll Bring:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with cross-functional product development lifecycles
• Familiarity APIs and Data Models
• Familiarity with some or all of these preferred: Salesforce, SQL, MDM, ETL
• A commitment to civil liberties, civil rights, and social justice
• Commitment to the mission of the ACLU
• Must work from a U.S. based location

Future ACLU-ers Will:

• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU 
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict 

Internship Logistics:

• Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of in-person, remote, or hybrid intern positions. This internship can be remote or hybrid from our New York National office
• Time Commitment: Term-time internships may be completed on a part-time basis (10, 15, or 20 hours/week)
• Internship Duration: Part-time internships span 12 consecutive weeks.
       • Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work. Students with external funding may receive a partial stipend to bring their total funding up to the level of the ACLU’s stipend amount for that term. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit. Below are the stipend rates:
             • $20/hour for undergraduate students or equivalent experience
             • $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience
• Internship Duration: Full-time internships span 12 consecutive weeks and begin either January 13 or January 27, 2025. 

ABOUT THE ACLU

The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union – beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees. For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach. 

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency, and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

Why the ACLU:

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.

Our Commitment to Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion:

Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email [email protected]. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.