Product Analyst Intern - QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
McKinsey & Company · Atlanta, United States +3 · 1d ago
InternshipOn-siteMachine Learning & AI$108k
Who you'll work with
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
What you'll do
You will work as a core member of a multidisciplinary product team, alongside senior product managers, designers, engineers, and technologists, contributing to the development of tech and AI products that create real impact for clients across industries.
This full-time summer internship is for bachelor's or master’s students with graduation dates between December 2027 and August 2028 who are pursuing a degree in computer science, business, or a related field, and is expected to last 8-12 weeks.
You will support the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from collecting user and market insights to tracking product metrics, refining user stories, and monitoring adoption. You'll collaborate closely with engineering and design counterparts, develop a growing understanding of how great product teams operate, and build the foundational skills needed to contribute to complex, high-stakes product challenges.
Your work will help solve some of the most complex and high-impact challenges facing clients across industries. Collaborating across QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey and QuantumBlack Labs teams, you'll help develop innovative AI and digital product capabilities and scalable enterprise solutions. Your contributions will directly support clients in accelerating AI adoption and solving complex business problems at scale.
You'll be based in our Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, or New York office for an 8-12 week internship during the Summer of 2027 as part of our global Product community. Working in cross-functional teams, you'll collaborate closely with data scientists, engineers, designers, and industry experts to deliver AI-enabled products. By partnering with clients from technical teams to C-level executives, you'll help solve complex problems that drive tangible business value and begin to build your skills as a client-facing technologist.
Your work offers a unique opportunity to grow at the forefront of AI and product development. You'll develop expertise at the intersection of technology and business by tackling diverse challenges in the evolving AI landscape. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, you'll gain a holistic understanding of how great products enable advanced AI while collaborating with some of the leading technologists and AI practitioners in the industry.
Your background
- Currently pursuing a master's or bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field with a graduation date between December 2027and August 2028
- Experience in a product management or product analyst role, with exposure to digital and AI product development
- Ability to collect and organize user, market, and competitor insights to inform product decisions, track product metrics, and identify trends or issues in performance data
- Experience supporting product roadmap updates, organizing backlog items using prioritization inputs, and contributing to product launches and adoption monitoring
- Familiarity with writing or refining user stories and acceptance criteria, tracking release progress, and identifying delivery risks and dependencies with guidance
- A data-driven mindset — able to track and report core product metrics, support post-launch value tracking, and maintain inputs for financial or operational reporting
- Developing familiarity with GenAI tools and prompt patterns, with an eagerness to learn how emerging technologies can be applied to improve product discovery and delivery
- Comfort working alongside engineering teams and a willingness to build familiarity with technical delivery practices over time
- Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and local office language(s), with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels