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Aspiring product manager with hands-on externship experience

I completed a BeReal Product Management externship and am building practical product skills while preparing to start my career.

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Work shown includes outcomes from the BeReal Product Management externship and early product-learning projects, emphasizing practical tasks completed during the program.

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    BeReal Product Management Externship
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    BeReal Product Management Externship

    Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

    DesignUI/UXProduct Management

About me

I completed a BeReal Product Management externship and am building practical product skills while preparing to start my career.

I am Lauren Moon. I am at the start of my career and have completed a BeReal Product Management externship. I am exploring product work and building practical experience through project-based learning with real product teams.

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BeReal Product Management Externship

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Skills

Product thinking (early-stage)Product management fundamentalsProject-based product work
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✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

BeReal Product Management Externship

Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

DesignUI/UXProduct Management

Overview

The externship examined how a social app like BeReal balances authenticity and user growth through competitor benchmarking, engagement-feature analysis, and a feature-design exercise. The work compared interaction patterns across similar apps and produced a growth-oriented feature concept with supporting rationale.

BeReal Product Management Externship

What I've accomplished

I produced a spreadsheet-style end-to-end journey map that recorded user actions, thoughts, and emotions at each stage and flagged friction such as the post-to-view requirement.

Project breakdown

The project mapped awareness, onboarding, engagement and validation stages for BeReal. I documented what users did, thought and felt at each stage, noted friction points (post-to-view requirement) and produced a spreadsheet-style journey map summarizing behaviors and emotions.

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I collected manual and AI findings, mapped BeReal and Locket features side-by-side, and produced a comparison table that linked each feature to retention or MAU impact, showing reliability, convenience, engagement, visibility, and control scores.

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