CPT Software Product Manager Jobs
Software Product Manager CPT roles let you own the full product lifecycle, discovery, roadmap, and launch, while your school's DSO authorizes the work as a direct extension of your coursework. Employers hiring CPT students for PM roles expect cross-functional collaboration skills and often require prior internship experience in technical or business analysis functions.
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Lila is looking for a Fall Co-Op (Intern), Software Product Management to support software and workflow improvements across our scientific software platform.
This role sits at the intersection of scientists, software engineering, and product. The co-op will shadow users, help translate recurring workflow needs into clear product requirements, and support the team's work to connect designs, data, results, and learnings across scientific workflows.
The role is well suited for someone interested in product management, scientific operations, lab software, or data systems. The co-op will gain hands-on exposure to how scientific workflows become software requirements, while owning a small scoped feature or workflow improvement from discovery through delivery.
What You'll Be Building
- Shadow scientists and other users to understand their software and workflow needs.
- Help groom product backlogs with product, science, and engineering partners.
- Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria from ambiguous requirements.
- Support connecting designs, data, and results across scientific workflows.
- Triage recurring user asks and convert them into actionable tickets.
- Own a small scoped feature or workflow improvement from discovery through delivery.
- Partner with engineers and scientists to clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, and workflow impact.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Interest in product management, scientific workflows, lab operations, or software systems.
- Strong written communication skills and ability to turn ambiguity into clear requirements.
- Comfort working with cross-functional partners across science, product, and engineering.
- Ability to observe workflows, ask thoughtful questions, and synthesize user needs.
- Organized approach to tracking tasks, decisions, and follow-ups.
- Curiosity about how software can improve experimental throughput, traceability, and data quality.
Bonus Points For
- Experience with product backlogs, user stories, or acceptance criteria.
- Exposure to scientific data systems, lab software, or workflow tools.
- Prior internship, coursework, or project work involving product, operations, or software delivery.
About LILA
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
We're All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
A Note to Agencies
Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science's internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
Your Impact at LILA
Lila is looking for a Fall Co-Op (Intern), Software Product Management to support software and workflow improvements across our scientific software platform.
This role sits at the intersection of scientists, software engineering, and product. The co-op will shadow users, help translate recurring workflow needs into clear product requirements, and support the team's work to connect designs, data, results, and learnings across scientific workflows.
The role is well suited for someone interested in product management, scientific operations, lab software, or data systems. The co-op will gain hands-on exposure to how scientific workflows become software requirements, while owning a small scoped feature or workflow improvement from discovery through delivery.
What You'll Be Building
- Shadow scientists and other users to understand their software and workflow needs.
- Help groom product backlogs with product, science, and engineering partners.
- Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria from ambiguous requirements.
- Support connecting designs, data, and results across scientific workflows.
- Triage recurring user asks and convert them into actionable tickets.
- Own a small scoped feature or workflow improvement from discovery through delivery.
- Partner with engineers and scientists to clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, and workflow impact.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Interest in product management, scientific workflows, lab operations, or software systems.
- Strong written communication skills and ability to turn ambiguity into clear requirements.
- Comfort working with cross-functional partners across science, product, and engineering.
- Ability to observe workflows, ask thoughtful questions, and synthesize user needs.
- Organized approach to tracking tasks, decisions, and follow-ups.
- Curiosity about how software can improve experimental throughput, traceability, and data quality.
Bonus Points For
- Experience with product backlogs, user stories, or acceptance criteria.
- Exposure to scientific data systems, lab software, or workflow tools.
- Prior internship, coursework, or project work involving product, operations, or software delivery.
About LILA
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
We're All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
A Note to Agencies
Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science's internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
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Does a Software Product Manager role qualify for CPT authorization?
Yes, if the work ties directly to your enrolled program. PM roles in technology or business programs typically qualify because the work involves applied skills from product management, business strategy, or information systems coursework. Your DSO will review the offer letter and a written explanation of how the role integrates with your curriculum before issuing authorization on your I-20.
Can I do CPT as a Software Product Manager at a startup without a formal HR team?
You can, but it requires extra preparation. Startups without dedicated HR often don't have established processes for CPT paperwork. You'll need to guide them through what the offer letter must say, your start date, end date, number of hours per week, and job description, so your DSO can authorize it. Get all of this in writing before you accept.
How do I find Software Product Manager employers who are comfortable hiring CPT students?
Migrate Mate lets you browse Software Product Manager roles filtered by employers with work authorization filing history, which is the clearest signal that a company already has internal processes for international students. Employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications or sponsored H-1B visa holders before are far less likely to withdraw an offer when CPT documentation comes up during onboarding.
What happens to my CPT authorization if my PM role changes scope mid-internship?
A material change in your job duties, switching from product operations to pure sales, for example, can put your CPT authorization out of compliance. You must notify your DSO any time your role changes significantly. They'll assess whether a new authorization is needed. Don't wait until your semester ends to flag a scope change; unauthorized work is an F-1 violation.
Does CPT work as a Software Product Manager count toward the 12-month full-time CPT limit that affects OPT?
Yes. Any full-time CPT work, defined as 20 or more hours per week, counts toward the 12-month cumulative limit. If you exceed that threshold across all CPT authorizations, you lose OPT eligibility entirely. Part-time CPT, under 20 hours per week, does not count toward this limit regardless of how many semesters you use it. Track your authorized hours carefully with your DSO.