Product Intern
Product Intern — Automation & Sales Tools
Hotels, stadiums, and grocery distributors throw away thousands of pounds of usable food every day—not because it's spoiled, but because moving it somewhere useful is a logistics nightmare.
We built the system that solves it. Each month, we route 400+ tons of food waste from partners like Marriott, Crypto.com Arena, and regional distributors to farms and composting facilities across Southern California. Landfill waste becomes livestock feed and fertilizer.
The operations work. Now we need someone to build the tools that help us sell and scale faster.The Role
You're here to solve problems across the business by building things quickly with modern AI and no-code tools.
We need someone who can:
- Talk to a salesperson, understand their bottleneck, and ship a working automation by end of week.
- Interview customers, synthesize what they said, and turn it into a clear insight the product team can act on.
- See a messy spreadsheet workflow and say "I can build something better" — then actually do it.
You'll own one major project end-to-end, plus pick up smaller problems as they surface. Everything you build will be used by real people on our team within days, not months.
Projects you might take on:
- Lead generation automation — Build a system that scrapes public data, qualifies leads with AI, and delivers a clean list to our sales team weekly. You'll define what "qualified" means by talking to the salespeople who'll use it.
- Customer interview pipeline — Create a workflow for recording, transcribing, and summarizing customer calls. The output: a weekly brief that surfaces patterns and product opportunities without anyone reading 10 transcripts.
- Internal dashboard — Design and build a simple, well-designed dashboard that replaces manual reporting. You'll decide what metrics matter by understanding how the ops and sales teams actually make decisions.
Who This Is For
You're a strong fit if:
- You build things with AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Replit, GPT, etc.) faster than most people build slide decks. You're not a CS major grinding LeetCode — you're someone who figured out you can ship real tools without a traditional engineering background.
- You're a clear communicator. You can summarize a messy conversation into three bullet points. You can write an email that gets read. You can present to a room without hiding behind jargon.
- You're genuinely curious about how businesses work. Sales pipelines, customer segmentation, operational bottlenecks — this stuff interests you, not just the building part.
- You have taste. You know the difference between "technically works" and "someone will actually use this." Your UIs are clean. Your workflows make sense.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity. You'd rather ask good questions and figure out the right problem than wait for a detailed spec.
- You're willing to get on calls with customers, hotel managers, and farm operators to understand what they need.
This probably isn't for you if:
- You want to go deep on a single technical system and optimize it over months.
- You're uncomfortable showing rough work and iterating in front of stakeholders.
- You'd rather receive requirements than discover them.
- You don't have excellent communication skills
What You'll Walk Away With
- A portfolio piece with real users and measurable outcomes — not a class project.
- Experience translating business problems into working tools — the skill that makes product managers and founders effective.
- A reference from a CEO who watched you work.
Compensation
To Apply
Email jobs@dyrt.co with:
- Your resume.
- A link to something you built — an app, automation, website, art project, radio story, tool, even a Notion/Airtable system — with 3–5 sentences on what problem it solved and how you built it.
- Short answer (100 words max): Describe a time you talked to someone to understand a problem, then made something that solved it. What did you learn from the conversation that you wouldn't have guessed on your own?
- (Optional) An example of something you've reused/recycled recently.