Product Management Summer Intern, Listener Experience

Who We Are

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connect) are at the forefront of a new era in audio entertainment and services. We are dedicated to delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for millions of listeners, whether they are in the car, at home, or on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, connecting everyone effortlessly to the voices, stories, and music they love, wherever they are.

This is a place where a diverse group of emerging talent and industry legends come together to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds, and insights. Through some of the best programming and technology in the world, our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. Every employee, regardless of their individual role, plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

As the leading audio entertainment company in North America, SiriusXM is the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. Our platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, representing the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America. We deliver a rich array of music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment, and podcasts. Pandora, a SiriusXM subsidiary, stands as the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. Furthermore, SiriusXM's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz are leaders in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics, and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, SXM Media, leverages its extensive scale, cross-platform sales organization, and ad tech capabilities to deliver impressive results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., and provides connected vehicle services to automakers.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a Product Management Summer Intern, Listener Experience, you will play a key role in the creation of compelling and user-friendly experiences for millions of SiriusXM listeners and customers. You will collaborate closely with product designers, product analysts, other product managers, and leadership to bring differentiated listener experiences and features to market, prioritize improvements, and accurately measure success. This internship offers the unique opportunity to build and deliver a small feature, experiment, or process improvement, gaining valuable exposure across the entire digital product development organization. It is an ideal role for individuals interested in understanding how large-scale media products leverage metadata, content systems, and cross-platform design to create intuitive, personalized listener experiences.

In This Role, You Will

• Support the evolution of content discovery, personalization, and utility surfaces across SiriusXM’s mobile, web, TV, and automotive experiences.
• Contribute to cross-surface product initiatives that span metadata, content presentation, and listener navigation, ensuring consistency and clarity across all platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Drive a feature, experiment, or process improvement from end-to-end, encompassing user interviews, requirements definition, feature development, and results measurement.
• Respond to existing insights and internal metrics to inform product decisions and prioritize work, using data to articulate a compelling story, gain buy-in, and generate excitement.
• Collaborate across various functions to identify optimal paths forward, providing innovative and simple ideas to enhance operational capabilities and benefit listeners and customers. This involves building relationships with SiriusXM’s expert designers, product managers, analysts, scientists, engineers, sellers, operations managers, and musicologists to move ideas from concept to market.
• Bring fresh perspectives to challenge conventional wisdom and ask insightful questions.
• Document trade-offs for different approaches and work collaboratively with leaders to facilitate timely decisions. Synthesize information and feedback into actionable plans.
• Identify problems, lead productive meetings, and create clear, easy-to-understand documentation.
• Showcase your work and solicit feedback from a large team of product management experts.
• Partner with a senior Product Manager on cross-platform initiatives that seamlessly connect app, web, TV, and in-car experiences.
• Assist in defining and documenting metadata-driven product requirements, including how content attributes are presented across different devices and contexts.
• Support research, analysis, and synthesis related to listener behavior, content discovery, and habitual listening patterns.
• Help evaluate and improve content presentation systems (e.g., metadata, imagery, badges, and data hierarchy) to ensure clarity, consistency, and usability.
• Participate in cross-functional forums with Design, Research, Engineering, Program, and Automotive partners, contributing notes, insights, and follow-ups.
• Assist with product storytelling and documentation, including decks, briefs, and decision summaries that facilitate stakeholder alignment.
• Learn how catalog data, content services, and clients integrate to power user-facing experiences.

What You’ll Need

• An interest in content platforms, personalization systems, or media discovery experiences.
• Curiosity regarding how data and metadata drive user experiences across diverse devices.
• Comfort working through ambiguous problems and helping to structure complex systems.
• Strong written communication skills and an interest in product storytelling and documentation.
• A desire to understand how large-scale consumer products balance user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.
• Internships are open to current students enrolled at a university (preferably those graduating by May 2027) and recent graduates who completed their degree within 12 months prior to the internship start.
• Previous internship or work experience in consumer Internet or other consumer technology products is preferred.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical team members in an Agile-Scrum environment.
• Interaction design experience or user research experience is a plus.
• Ability to communicate with executive stakeholders, anticipating questions and articulating decisions with supporting rationale.
• A passion for music and the ambition to create compelling, unique experiences that listeners and customers love.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• User Experience (UX)
• Content Discovery
• Personalization Systems
• Metadata Management
• Cross-Platform Development
• Agile/Scrum Methodologies
• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication
• Requirements Definition