Product Operations Intern

Soda is looking for a hands-on Product Ops Intern to accelerate how we build and ship product. You’ll work directly with the founders and product team to streamline operations, uncover insights, and make sure the right conversations happen with the right people at the right time. Your work will be critical to how we shape product direction and grow adoption across our platform.

Your primary responsibility will be to own the scheduling and execution of product discovery calls, both with current customers and key personas we want to learn from. You’ll also jump into product metrics, run ops for hiring key roles, and help with go-to-market execution where needed. This is a high-exposure, high-impact internship. You’ll move fast, learn a lot, and play a real role in building a great product.

This week is Soda’s first Launch Week. We are launching new features every single day this week. To standout for this internship, contribute meaningfully to launch week, we will notice. Learn more at launch.soda.io

Responsibilities:

• Schedule 3x weekly discovery calls with existing customers

• Prospect and book discovery calls with key personas (SDR-style)

• Occasionally organize welcome experiences for new customer kick-offs

• Run recruitment ops for product org

• Perform niche market research that can’t be answered by ChatGPT

• Own product metrics ops:

  • Focus on activation, adoption

  • Track revenue (via sales ops, but deeper granularity and product lens)

  • Report on engineering metrics

About Soda

Soda helps customers detect, resolve, and prevent data quality issues by combining automated post-production monitoring with pre-production pipeline data testing. We enable Data Engineers to effectively own DQ by “shifting left” the data quality initiatives from business to engineering.

Soda was founded in 2019 by Maarten, an employee #5 in Collibra, where he worked in Go-To-Market leadership, and Tom, who launched multiple OSS projects that generated 100s Million in value. Together, they built a tool that ensures data quality across Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business use cases.

Soda’s product offering consists of an open-source project called Soda Core, which is used by companies like Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. Soda commercializes its software through the Soda Cloud product. We're well-funded, with investors like Point 9 Capital, Hummingbird, Singular, and Eurazeo.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the Data Quality software used by Data Engineers for the decades to come.

Our Values

We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We dislike politics and bullshit and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical and overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions and prioritize and organize your work how you see fit.

❤ Why you will love to join Soda

• Working with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure

• You will have full ownership of the things you work on

• An international and diverse team

• Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!

• Open Source Product with all the perks that come with that

😡 What you might not love

• Fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done

• You will have to learn new things all the time

Technical:

• Ability to synthesize product data across tools and turn it into actionable insights

• Comfortable working with spreadsheets, dashboards, and basic SQL or BI tools

• Understands the basics of B2B SaaS product metrics: activation, adoption, retention, revenue

• Appreciation for clean UX and a user-first mindset in evaluating product success

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

Industry:

• Interest in data products, especially in the observability, reliability, or ML tooling space

• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, startup-like environments

• Bonus: exposure to or interest in product ops, sales ops, or recruiting ops in a B2B SaaS setting

Operational:

• Highly organized and reliable — you’ll be running point on external-facing coordination

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Bias for action — you don’t wait around to be told what to do

• Not afraid to chase people for answers, wrangle calendars, or triage chaos into clarity

• Able to manage multiple priorities, keep things moving, and flag blockers early

This is not a passive internship. You’ll be expected to operate like a core part of the product team.