At Colibri Group, culture is at the heart of everything we do. Our values Love, Joy, Boldness, Teamwork, and Curiosity guide how we work together, support our customers, and make a difference in the communities we serve. Colibri Group is a leader in online professional education, serving more than one million learners each year across a family of trusted education brands. Our Product & Technology teams build the products that help professionals advance their careers and stay indispensable in a changing world. Our returnship brings that mission to experienced professionals ready to relaunch their own careers.

Come Build What’s Next

We’re looking for experienced professionals to join Colibri’s Returnship Program as a Product Builder (Returnship). Your career break does not erase the expertise you earned. This paid, 12-week opportunity gives you a structured way to bring that experience back into technology work while learning how to build with AI.

In this individual contributor role, you will join a cross-functional product pod: a small team working together to solve customer and business problems. You will take a problem from an early prototype to working, AI-enabled software in the hands of real users, then improve it through feedback and weekly iteration. You will have meaningful ownership, with responsibility for the quality, progress, and outcomes of your work.

We welcome experience across engineering, product, design, learning, program management, business systems, and related disciplines. Bring your professional judgment and readiness to learn. Through AI-native training, hands-on delivery, and collaboration with your pod, you will build current skills while contributing the perspective of your prior career.

About the Returnship Program

Paid, temporary program lasting 12 weeks, with a commitment of 40 hours per week, fully onsite in Pleasanton, California

Designed for experienced professionals returning after a career break, typically two or more years away from paid work

Placement at Colibri’s individual contributor level IC2 or above during the program, based on prior experience, with a discipline descriptor reflecting your professional background

Structured AI-native training and real project work, supported by manager coaching, mentorship, and peer connections

This temporary program does not include company-sponsored benefits. The program may lead to future employment in Product & Technology; conversion is not guaranteed and depends on performance, business needs, and approved headcount. Any future role and level will reflect demonstrated scope; prior level informs placement but does not guarantee it.

What You’ll Do

Refresh your skills and apply them immediately. Complete Colibri’s AI-native training and use it in active project work, building fluency in current tools and ways of working

Own a customer or business problem. Move from prototype through build, hardening, release, and iteration while owning the outcome and timeline within your pod’s commitments

Deliver working software to real users. Take the fastest responsible path to a minimum viable product and then beta. Your work will reach production, beyond a local demonstration

Apply your professional judgment. Use your prior experience to define scope, weigh trade-offs, align stakeholders, and help the pod make better decisions

Show progress every week. Demonstrate your work in weekly demos and communicate progress, risks, and next steps clearly and honestly

Direct and evaluate AI tools. Use AI coding and agent tools to accelerate delivery. When output falls short, identify the cause and improve the context, prompts, tools, or tests behind it

Bring the standards of your discipline. Create strong requirements, designs, architecture, tests, learning designs, or programs, as relevant to your background, and learn how other disciplines contribute.

Own quality. Review AI-generated and peer work for maintainability, test coverage, security, and fitness for purpose. Build quality into the work throughout delivery