Product Manager intern · Available Dec 2026 / Jan 2027 – Aug 2027 · J-1

Yeonggyu Lee: I find out what people actually need, then build for it.

I started in HR because I cared about what helps people grow at work. At KMAC in 2025, I ran on-site operations for a public-sector client's year-long training program and designed a needs survey that reshaped one of its courses. Now, in Irvine, I'm PM of a four-person team building an AI tutor for our university. We interviewed six professors, learned the real problem was different from what we assumed, and rebuilt the product around it. Sociology & Psychology at Kookmin University, graduating Aug 2027.

Yeonggyu Lee

Selected work

Screenshot of the LearningMate professor tool reviewing an AI-generated quiz (Korean interface).

LearningMate (working name)

PM · 4-person team · Sep 2026 – present

An AI tutor inside our university's learning platform. Six professor interviews showed the pain wasn't making lecture materials. It was not knowing what students understood before the midterm, and grading. So we put quizzes and a mistake notebook inside the lecture materials. I owned the student Q&A flow and tested it with realistic course questions. In development, no real class users yet.

  • User interviews
  • Product scoping
  • AI answer testing
  • AI-assisted prototyping
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4.78 / 5overall program satisfaction, team result (5-point scale)

2025 Public-Sector HRD Program

Business Assistant · KMAC · Mar–Dec 2025

A public-sector client's 2025 training program: 9 courses, 1,765 enrollments including repeats, 4.78 out of 5 overall satisfaction (team result). I ran on-site operations for every course. I also turned a two-line client request into a needs survey that reshaped a leadership course, and rebuilt the annual report around what the client needed to see.

  • Needs discovery
  • Operations
  • Stakeholder reporting
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Inkpod room entry screen (The Cinnabar Court).

Inkpod

Audio direction & marketing · 3-person team · Sep 2026 – present

Interactive audio stories that answer when you talk. I picked the music, sound effects, and voices, and ran launch marketing on six channels with a tracking link per channel. Now building my own version with several characters and real-time voice.

  • Launch marketing
  • Funnel tracking
  • Audio direction
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121survey respondents in their 20s (Nov 2024)

Survey research: why do people protect their data online?

Sociology course paper · 2024

I designed the study, collected the responses, and ran a regression analysis on how perceived risk of online crime relates to protecting personal data. People who saw more risk protected their data more, and the link was weaker among people who trust online information more. Limits: a small, non-random sample, mostly university students. It shows a pattern, not a cause.

  • Survey design
  • Regression analysis
  • Stating limits
Also in progress: QuietCare (working name), a class role-play pitch for privacy-first elder care with an on-device AI camera. I defined the problem and drafted the business model. Read more →

Experience

Work and school.

  • Sep 2026 – present

    Global PBL program, Irvine, CA

    Project courses in full-stack, applied AI, and cloud · PM of the LearningMate team

  • Mar–Dec 2025

    Business Assistant, KMAC (Korea Management Association Consultants)

    Public Education Division

  • Cohort 37

    Next-Gen HR Academy (HRM track)

    Team member · 1st place in the HRM project

  • Aug 2027 (expected)

    Kookmin University, Sociology & Psychology (double major)

Skills & certificates

  • User interviews
  • Survey research and regression analysis
  • Product scoping and planning
  • Testing AI answers with question sets
  • AI-assisted prototyping with coding agents
  • Social Survey Analyst Level 2 (certified 2024)
  • TOEIC Speaking 140 (IH), Apr 2026

Let's talk

I'm looking for a US product (PM) internship. I'm available from Dec 2026 or Jan 2027 through Aug 2027 on a J-1 visa.