About this role
About the Role
This is a founding product role at a small, fast-moving team building vertical SaaS and AI tooling for the skilled trades industry in the German market. You will own product end-to-end, working directly with engineering to ship features that solve real problems for real users. It is a high-ownership, high-impact position with no management layers between you and the work.
What You'll Do
- Own the full product direction, from understanding user problems to shaping solutions and shipping them.
- Translate company goals into clear product bets, priorities, and tradeoffs.
- Work closely with engineering to scope, design, and deliver features quickly.
- Make confident product decisions with incomplete information and course-correct fast.
- Develop a deep understanding of users, their workflows, and real-world constraints.
- Bring clarity to the team on what is being built, why, and what done looks like.
- Help define and scale how product work happens as the company grows.
- Operate in a low-ceremony, high-velocity environment with direct feedback and fast loops.
What We're Looking For
- Genuine end-to-end product management experience with proven ownership in early-stage startup environments.
- Meaningful hands-on experience at a pre-Series B or seed-stage company; primarily corporate or late-stage backgrounds are not a fit.
- AI-native mindset: comfortable applying AI-first product patterns and using AI tools actively in product development.
- Strong technical understanding and experience scoping and shipping features directly with engineers.
- Good product taste with close attention to UX and detail, even without a formal design background.
- High agency: you take ownership, push things forward, and do not wait for permission.
- Comfortable being wrong and correcting course quickly in the face of ambiguity.
- Native or near-native German proficiency (at least C1, spoken and written); the product and many partners operate in German.
- Fluent English for internal communication.
- Independent side projects or products you have built on your own are a strong plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: 80,000 to 100,000 EUR annually . Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location
On-site, five days a week in Berlin-Mitte, Germany . Daily in-office presence is required.