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

 Job Requisition ID: 91080 

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

Group Benefit Solutions delivers comprehensive insurance and absence management solutions for mid-sized and large companies. Our work fosters a healthier, happier, and more secure workforce, contributing to New York Life’s legacy of being there when we’re needed most. Here, you'll design, implement, and support these solutions directly impacting employees’ lives. At our core, we provide financial security and peace of mind to people through our absence, accident, disability, voluntary benefits, and life insurance solutions. Click here to learn more about Group Benefits solutions.

 

 

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 Business, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Cyber Security 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