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Product Manager & Engineer

I combine CS studies with product-focused externship work to design engagement features that respect an apps core values.

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Portfolio pieces include externship work on social app product strategy, competitor benchmarking, feature design, and engagement analysis tied to platform values.

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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.

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About me

I combine CS studies with product-focused externship work to design engagement features that respect an apps core values.

Hi I'm Tasneem!

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BeReal Product Management Externship

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Skills

Product feature designUser engagement analysisCompetitor benchmarkingUX strategyJavaScriptPythonData analysis basicsWireframing and prototypingA/B TestingAI Powered AnalyticsAI-Driven InsightsAI Workflow DesignCanvaChatGPTClaudeCompetitive AnalysisCompetitive BenchmarkingData AnalysisGammaGo-to-Market Strategy
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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 growth by benchmarking competitors, mapping user flows, and designing a new feature. The work produced a five-stage end-to-end user journey map, a competitor feature audit linking mechanics to retention with cited notes and metrics, a PRD-lite, a clickable Canva prototype for Real Together, and a focus-group test with

BeReal Product Management Externship

What I've accomplished

I delivered a five-stage user journey with recorded actions, thoughts, and feelings; a feature-audit table linking competitor mechanics to engagement with cited usage notes and metrics; a PRD-lite and clickable Canva prototype for Real Together; and a 38-minute focus group yielding verbatim reactions and a clear finding about proof versus pressure.

Project breakdown

During the module I mapped a five-stage BeReal user journey (Onboarding, Prompt, Exploration, Creation, Posting). I recorded what users did, thought, and felt at each step and captured specific frictions like confusion at first capture and ideas like adding music.

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I audited BeReal’s core features, described their mechanics and retention links (notifications, post-to-view gating, Discovery tab), and produced a feature table showing how each item drove engagement with cited usage notes and metrics.

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During the module I defined Real Together, wrote a PRD-lite, mapped user flows, scored ideas with RICE, and built a clickable Canva prototype showing tagged friends' posts auto-stitching into a single "together" card and the waiting/failure states.

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I designed and ran a 38-minute virtual focus group plan for seven participants, prespecified decision rules, and tested four learning goals. The session produced verbatim reactions, a written survey, and a clear finding about proof versus pressure.

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