2025 Group Benefit Solutions (GBS) Technology Summer Internship Program - Product Owner

Job Requisition ID:91080

Location Designation:Hybrid - 3 days per week

Shape your future with a dynamic internship experience at New York Life. We offer opportunities across a variety of exciting businesses, including Actuarial, AI & Data, Finance, Investments, Technology, Underwriting, and more. Your internship journey is designed to challenge you through hands-on work experience that will equip you with valuable skills you can use anywhere. You will build your network through collaboration and connection with talented interns and experienced employees through team-building activities, mentorship programs, and fun social events. By the end of your internship, you'll be equipped with new skills and a network that will propel you forward in your career journey.

Role Overview:

Technology Summer Interns join us for 11 weeks in our Philadelphia office. You will have an opportunity to explore potential career paths while working on real-life projects across supporting the Group Benefits Solutions Technology organization and gain the valuable experience essential for you to take the next step in starting your career. Our world is full of opportunities to collaborate, imagine, invent, and evolve transformative technology.

You'll also expand your skills through hands-on training and development opportunities - all designed to prepare you for a successful career after graduation.

Here, you'll be part of a strong network and learn alongside a group of highly motivated peers just like yourself. It's a collaborative environment full of learning opportunities designed to help you evolve your skills, challenge your strengths, and reach your full potential. You'll also build mentoring relationships, have access to senior leadership, and gain exposure across the company.

What You'll Do:

Technology Product Owner interns will support on one of our agile release trains which may include a focus in: Salesforce, Digital Self Service, Group Data Hub and Reporting, or B2B Data Exchange.

Role: Product Owner

Description:

The Agile Product Owner represents the voice of the Group Insurance customer and client at the team level, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog, to ensure that the team is working on stories that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality to all end users.

The intern will assist the product owner and product manager in defining features, understanding technical solution options, prioritizing the backlog and identifying acceptance criteria. This could include reviewing end user usage data and feedback to identify and suggest improvement opportunities for the user experience.

Additionally, the product owner intern may support review the functionality after the developer has completed coding to understand how the functionality meets the acceptance criteria

What You'll Bring: An innovative mindset and the ability to challenge the status quo while exhibiting excellent problem-solving, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.

Required Skills:

You must be a rising senior or graduate student studying towards a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or other related major with a keen interest in the financial services industry, along with documenting IT solution requirements (business, functional and/or technical), and strong technical knowledge.

Preferred Skills:

• You have a minimum GPA of 3.2.
• You possess excellent problem-solving, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:$30 - $35/ hour

Overtime eligible:Nonexempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:No

Sales bonus eligible:No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.

Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by theFoundation.We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.