Product Intern-Graduate

Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, you'll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.

Location – Remote - must reside in any KP market (California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia or Washington DC). 

Education Level - Graduate 

Department Description:

The National Product Design and Management organization optimizes our health plan product and capability portfolio to support Kaiser Permanente’s overarching growth and retention business objectives.  The National Product Design and Management team drives the vision, strategy, design, and execution of Kaiser Permanente’s product suite across the end-to-end product development and management life-cycle. We are structured to support national and regional product and capability needs utilizing common tools and analytic models to ensure consistent and effective work.

This role would work with the Choice Product team, which is responsible for developing and managing PPO, POS, and KP products across all markets and Lines of Business.

Project Description:

The intern would (under supervision) drive one or more workstreams on a National product initiative. The main focus will be on assessing the target audience's needs to inform and influence project deliverables (including external messaging and communication) to ensure the optimal member experience. May also provide market and data analysis support to other concepts under assessment. This opportunity provides a first-hand understanding of the end-to-end components of a health plan, exposure to the intricacies of working with internal & external partners to reach a common goal, and experience in getting a health plan initiative to market.

Desired Majors:

Computer Science, Business Administration, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, or Data Science;

Preferred Skillsets:

Critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills, data analysis, project management, MS Office (XLS, PPT, Power BI)..

Essential Responsibilities:

• Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.


• Report development and analytics.


• Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.


• Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.


• Job shadowing in other functional areas.


• Performing additional duties as required.

Qualifications:

• N/A 

• Pursuing a graduate degree or have completed a graduate program from an accredited university within the last year.
• Bachelors degree required.

• N/A

• Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions.
• Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• 3.0 GPA or above
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to build effective working relationships as well as strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly and experience producing high quality work in short periods of time.