Remote Product Manager Internship

KLIM Technologies is looking for an intern in Product Management. Your mission will be to help identify gaps in the market (where customers’ expectations are not met), work with the sourcing and design team to bring a superior product to life. 

You will be working closely with the sourcing, design and engineering teams on new products. We are only looking for end-of-studies internships for a minimum duration of 6 months.

Your duties and responsibilities

The intern is responsible for facilitating product development.

He/She will be helping the Product Manager with ensuring that (a) the process from concept to launch is as fast as possible and (b) the quality of the end product is impeccable.

The Intern will work with the marketing team, the engineering team and the sourcing team. We strongly believe in leaving a lot of autonomy to make decisions whatever the position in the company, this is no exception.

Our success has been based on our ability to quickly fill-in gaps in the market & bring superior product quality at our price point. New products are the biggest vector of growth for us.

You can directly see the results of your work in helping the company grow.
At KLIM we strongly believe in an unglamourous, but pragmatic approach to product development. We only go into markets where we believe we see an unmet need and bring a better product than the competition. 

Thanks to ecommerce and platforms such as Amazon we have at our disposal millions of negative reviews that let us know customers are unsatisfied. No need for focus groups and such, we just have to listen to what customers are telling us.

Customers’ dissatisfaction is our opportunity.

 You will be in charge of:

1. In cooperation with the New Products team, come up with and filter product ideas.

2. Communicate clearly to the sourcing and engineering team what we want to do with new products.

3. Push hard the sourcing and engineering team to ensure speed and quality.

4. In coordination with the marketing team prepare packaging, the user manual and any driver if needed.

5. Communicate clearly to marketing and sales the strengths of the new products

6. Act as the product expert and perform training sessions with the marketing and technical support teams.

To fit this position
We hire mostly for abilities, as we strongly believe that with a willingness to learn a person can quickly get up to speed, but these would give you a starting advantage:

• An understanding of the product development process, technology and trends in consumer electronics

• Experience with market research and data analysis

• Customer-centric -> you are great at understanding customers’ needs and wants

• Detail oriented with strong communication skills with a drive to create well defined products with clearly articulated benefits

• The best candidate will be insightful, creative and decisive. Emphasis on decisiveness, we want to move fast.

We also invite you to read our Playbook, so that you can make sure your philosophy matches the company's.

IMPORTANT TO APPLY: all applicants must send their application through our questionnaire (use the link below) to be considered for any position. It's our policy to reply to all applications that arrive to our questionnaire. We always try to answer everyone within 7 working days for the first screening phase. We will reach out to you via email once the questionnaire is received and evaluated, so if you haven't received any email from us in more than 10 days please check if you sent the questionnaire properly, and also your spam inbox.

To apply please visit our Career section at https://klimtechs.com/careers/
We invite you to read our Playbook, so that you can make sure your philosophy matches the company's. Once you're sure we match, click the Apply button to complete the application form!

Location
You can choose to come to our head office in Chiang Mai, Thailand or do remote working. Or a mix of the two.

You will also have the opportunity once or twice a year to visit our offices and suppliers in Shenzhen.

Compensation

• 1450€ per month

This internship can result in a full-time position.

Working Hours

There is no fixed schedule, you make your own. You can expect a 40-hour weekly workload.

Due to time zone differences, we accept applications only from Asia and Europe time zones. 

About us: KLIM was started in 2015 with a $521 investment. We’ve had no outside investment and can freely decide our priorities. 

At KLIM we believe that only the customers will decide if we succeed or fail. This is why customers are so important to us.

Thanks to this relentless focus on customers we have experienced extremely fast growth.

Our PASSION
We use every day the products we make and are passionate about them. You will feel this. We avoid excessive marketing to give the best prices possible to our customers. We seek to have the most direct relations with our customers.

Our GOAL
We want to provide quality, durable electronics at a fair price, with exceptional customer after care.

In electronics a 0% defect rate will never be possible. But we strive for that goal. In our small circle of impact we want to ensure employees, customers and partners are treated well.

Our ACCOUNTABILITY

We are a young company, with a lot to learn. We will make mistakes but we will always make sure to own up to them and improve. And when we fail (because we failed, and will fail), we take responsibility, assist the customer and compensate him/her fairly.