What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer Intern, Advertising Product Management position at The Washington Post?
Join the future of news
We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.
About Our Team
The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.
Why This Role Matters
The Washington Post seeks a product management intern to join the advertising product team. The intern will work with a team of experienced Product Managers to define, develop, and launch solutions that directly impact The Post’s financial success and support our world-class journalism. The role will rotate between different product areas, contributing to critical projects across our revenue technology stack, including ad targeting and brand suitability solutions, AI-powered media planning and campaign management tools, custom ad formats and programmatic integrations.
What Motivates You
Our internship program is based out of our D.C. office, so you are expected to be on-site for the summer and follow The Washington Post’s in-person work policy. We do not provide housing, but can suggest options upon request. You must be enrolled in a degree-seeking program at the time of submitting this application. We encourage you to apply if you are currently a student, regardless of your background or experience with engineering and/or journalism.
Foreign nationals can apply for internships. All work samples must be submitted in English. If selected, the required documentation to verify U.S. work authorization must be provided. The Post is unable to provide visa sponsorship for internships. If you have any questions, please reach out to life@washpost.com
We will review all applications and invite a subset of applicants to the next process, which includes live coding and interviews with team leads.
Our program provides a meaningful learning experience for engineers who support The Washington Post's mission. Our interns work directly with our full-time engineers on real production features.
Additionally, you'll be invited to exclusive events like our annual intern hackathon and lunch seminars from leaders across the company.
This internship is not a guarantee of a job at The Post. We have hired from our internship classes in the past, and we hope to continue this trend in the coming years. Note our internship program is not a binding contract — you can take a full-time job elsewhere or from your (or another!) team at The Post before the internship ends.
Collaboration makes us stronger. That’s why our offices are designed with open layouts, modern technology, and easy access to transportation. With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on-site five days a week.
Your story awaits. Apply today!
Learn more about The Post at careers.washingtonpost.com.
We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.
About Our Team
The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.
Why This Role Matters
The Washington Post seeks a product management intern to join the advertising product team. The intern will work with a team of experienced Product Managers to define, develop, and launch solutions that directly impact The Post’s financial success and support our world-class journalism. The role will rotate between different product areas, contributing to critical projects across our revenue technology stack, including ad targeting and brand suitability solutions, AI-powered media planning and campaign management tools, custom ad formats and programmatic integrations.
What Motivates You
- You are driven by the opportunity to see your work have a tangible, direct impact on revenue generation. You love using data and analytical thinking to identify product opportunities and innovate within the fast-moving digital advertising ecosystem.
- This role provides critical support by contributing to projects that directly power our revenue engine and fund The Post’s journalism. The intern will assist in analyzing ad performance data, documenting requirements for new targeting products, and supporting the development of new tools designed to make our sales and account management teams more efficient and effective.
- Familiarity with digital advertising, including varied formats (display, audio, video, etc.) and campaign types (direct, programmatic)
- Exposure to product development methodologies and writing basic product documentation
- Interest in applying AI and other new technologies to business problems, particularly in sales efficiency or ad optimization
- Interest in user experience and product design
Our internship program is based out of our D.C. office, so you are expected to be on-site for the summer and follow The Washington Post’s in-person work policy. We do not provide housing, but can suggest options upon request. You must be enrolled in a degree-seeking program at the time of submitting this application. We encourage you to apply if you are currently a student, regardless of your background or experience with engineering and/or journalism.
Foreign nationals can apply for internships. All work samples must be submitted in English. If selected, the required documentation to verify U.S. work authorization must be provided. The Post is unable to provide visa sponsorship for internships. If you have any questions, please reach out to life@washpost.com
We will review all applications and invite a subset of applicants to the next process, which includes live coding and interviews with team leads.
Our program provides a meaningful learning experience for engineers who support The Washington Post's mission. Our interns work directly with our full-time engineers on real production features.
Additionally, you'll be invited to exclusive events like our annual intern hackathon and lunch seminars from leaders across the company.
This internship is not a guarantee of a job at The Post. We have hired from our internship classes in the past, and we hope to continue this trend in the coming years. Note our internship program is not a binding contract — you can take a full-time job elsewhere or from your (or another!) team at The Post before the internship ends.
Collaboration makes us stronger. That’s why our offices are designed with open layouts, modern technology, and easy access to transportation. With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on-site five days a week.
Your story awaits. Apply today!
Learn more about The Post at careers.washingtonpost.com.