What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Intern (CMMI) position at ISACA?
About ISACA
ISACA is a professional association and learning organization powered by a passionate community of more than 170,000 members and technology professionals around the world, who work in digital trust fields such as information security, governance, assurance, risk, privacy, and quality. For more than 50 years, ISACA has equipped these individuals and enterprises with the knowledge, credentials, education, training, and community to progress their careers, transform their organizations, and build a more trusted and ethical digital world. Come join an organization with an inspiring mission, a pay for performance culture, and top-shelf benefits plans.
Overview
About Our Summer Intern Program
Are you ready to kick-start your career? ISACA’s Intern Program offers rising Juniors and Seniors as well as Graduate students a hands-on experience and meaningful projects that drive impact. We're not your typical internship!
At ISACA, you’ll dive into real projects that matter while sharpening essential skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and time management through our tailored development program. But it’s not all work—we believe in building connections, too. From leadership panels and speed networking sessions to job shadowing and team-building events, you’ll have countless opportunities to grow your network and learn from industry experts.
Take the first step toward a bright future—join us, build your career, and make connections that last a lifetime!
Program Dates: June 2 – August 22, 2025
(*Please see location details in the job description)
Responsibilities
Intern role and responsibilities
Overview
Join a dynamic, mission-driven team working to improve organizational performance worldwide. As an intern with the CMMI Product Team, you’ll play a hands-on role in supporting the continuous evolution of the CMMI Performance Framework—a globally recognized model that helps organizations build and benchmark their capabilities.
This internship offers real-world experience in product development, research, and process improvement, with an emphasis on the early stages of product discovery, validation, and continuous iteration.
What You’ll Do
As an intern, you’ll collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to support both day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives. Your work may include:
We’re looking for a curious, detail-oriented problem solver who’s eager to make an impact on a high-visibility framework used by organizations globally in over 50 countries. You thrive in a collaborative environment, adapt quickly, and enjoy working on meaningful, real-world projects.
Qualifications
Education
ISACA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. ISACA is committed to building an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, age, ancestry, disability, genetic information, citizenship, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, familial status, military discharge status, or any other characteristic or status protected by federal, state, or local law. We support an inclusive workplace where employees excel based on merit, qualifications, experience, and ability.
ISACA is a professional association and learning organization powered by a passionate community of more than 170,000 members and technology professionals around the world, who work in digital trust fields such as information security, governance, assurance, risk, privacy, and quality. For more than 50 years, ISACA has equipped these individuals and enterprises with the knowledge, credentials, education, training, and community to progress their careers, transform their organizations, and build a more trusted and ethical digital world. Come join an organization with an inspiring mission, a pay for performance culture, and top-shelf benefits plans.
Overview
About Our Summer Intern Program
Are you ready to kick-start your career? ISACA’s Intern Program offers rising Juniors and Seniors as well as Graduate students a hands-on experience and meaningful projects that drive impact. We're not your typical internship!
At ISACA, you’ll dive into real projects that matter while sharpening essential skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and time management through our tailored development program. But it’s not all work—we believe in building connections, too. From leadership panels and speed networking sessions to job shadowing and team-building events, you’ll have countless opportunities to grow your network and learn from industry experts.
Take the first step toward a bright future—join us, build your career, and make connections that last a lifetime!
Program Dates: June 2 – August 22, 2025
(*Please see location details in the job description)
Responsibilities
Intern role and responsibilities
Overview
Join a dynamic, mission-driven team working to improve organizational performance worldwide. As an intern with the CMMI Product Team, you’ll play a hands-on role in supporting the continuous evolution of the CMMI Performance Framework—a globally recognized model that helps organizations build and benchmark their capabilities.
This internship offers real-world experience in product development, research, and process improvement, with an emphasis on the early stages of product discovery, validation, and continuous iteration.
What You’ll Do
As an intern, you’ll collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to support both day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives. Your work may include:
- Supporting market and user research to inform product decisions.
- Assisting with data clean-up, transformation, and analysis to identify insights from our global network of customers and partners.
- Participating in product discovery and design activities such as journey mapping, prototyping, competitor analysis, writing Business Requirements Documents, contributing to Roadmaps, reviewing or writing tickets, and many other aspects of product management.
- Helping organize and synthesize feedback from appraisers, consultants, and internal stakeholders.
- Supporting documentation, content improvement, and workflow enhancements tied to the CMMI model and supporting tools or our internal platform.
- Assisting with cross-team collaboration (e.g., with IT, Marketing, Content, Sales, or Customer Support teams).
- Handling ad hoc requests and contributing to special projects as needed.
We’re looking for a curious, detail-oriented problem solver who’s eager to make an impact on a high-visibility framework used by organizations globally in over 50 countries. You thrive in a collaborative environment, adapt quickly, and enjoy working on meaningful, real-world projects.
Qualifications
Education
- Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree, preferably in Product Management, Business Development, Information Systems, Data Science, Industrial Engineering, Public Policy or Organizational Development, or related area of study.
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Analytical mindset and comfort with data (Excel proficiency required)
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Professionalism and ability to work independently
- Curiosity and a desire to understand how systems and organizations work
- Team-oriented and emotionally intelligent
- Demonstrated interest in improving processes, systems, or services
- Location: We strongly prefer candidates who can commute to Schaumburg, IL for orientation as well as 3-4 in-person meetings throughout the summer. We will consider select remote locations within the U.S., but preference will be given to local candidates.
ISACA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. ISACA is committed to building an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, age, ancestry, disability, genetic information, citizenship, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, familial status, military discharge status, or any other characteristic or status protected by federal, state, or local law. We support an inclusive workplace where employees excel based on merit, qualifications, experience, and ability.
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