AI Lead Product Manager - German Speaker

Deine Mission

About Wallround

Wallround is headquartered in Berlin, with additional locations in Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Friedrichshafen and NRW.
Our mission: we turn energy-efficient retrofits for multi-family residential buildings into predictable, lucrative investment opportunities. When it comes to modernisations, the real estate market is often a black box of rough estimates and fragmented processes. We are changing that. Through our integrated platform and streamlined workflow, we transform 'brown assets' into future-proof, high-yield properties.

About the Role

Department:  Prod & Tech
Functional Home:  AI
Reports to:  CPO / Head of Product & Technology
Location:  Germany / DACH
Language:  German & English
Seniority:  Lead / Senior

We are looking for an  AI Lead Product Manager  to lead the product strategy, discovery, and execution of our AI-powered products and capabilities.

You will sit within the  AI Functional Home  while working day-to-day as a core member of the  AI Initiatives , partnering closely with AI Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Design, and Automation Engineers.

This is a hands-on product leadership role. You will translate customer needs and business opportunities and initiatives ensuring that AI capabilities create measurable customer value.

Because we operate in the German-speaking market,  native or professional-level German is essential . You will be comfortable working directly with German-speaking customers, stakeholders, and partners while collaborating with an international technology team in English.

Key Responsibilities

AI Product Strategy

- Identify high-value AI use cases based on customer needs, business opportunities, and technological possibilities.
- Translate complex AI capabilities into simple, valuable customer experiences.
- Define product priorities and make clear build / test / iterate decisions.
- Work closely with the CPO on product strategy and portfolio priorities.

Product Discovery

- Conduct customer discovery and problem validation, particularly within the German-speaking market.
- Work closely with customers and internal stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for AI.
- Define hypotheses, experiments, MVPs, and success criteria.
- Convert customer insights into actionable product requirements.

Cross-Functional Squad Leadership

- Act as the  Product Lead / DRI  for AI initiatives.
- Coordinate AI Engineers, Software Engineers, Design, and Automation specialists around a shared outcome.
- Maintain a clear squad backlog and prioritization framework.
- Remove ambiguity and keep the squad focused on outcomes rather than outputs.
- Communicate progress, risks, decisions, and dependencies to the CPO.

AI Product Development

- Partner with AI Engineers to evaluate model capabilities, limitations, costs, latency, and reliability.
- Understand concepts such as LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, prompting, structured outputs, and AI workflows.
- Define requirements for AI quality, accuracy, safety, observability, and user experience.
- Establish measurable product KPIs for AI features.

Stakeholder & Customer Management

- Communicate confidently with German-speaking customers and senior stakeholders.
- Present product concepts, prototypes, roadmaps, and outcomes.
- Build strong relationships with customers and use feedback to continuously improve the product.

Dein Profil

What We´re Looking For

Essential

- 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in B2B SaaS, AI, automation, or technology products.
- Demonstrated experience taking products from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Strong understanding of AI/LLM products and their practical application.
- Excellent product discovery and prioritization skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Native or fluent  German  and excellent English.
- Comfortable working directly with engineers and designers.
- Strong ownership and ability to operate independently.

Strong Plus

- Experience launching AI-native products.
- Experience working with LLM APIs, RAG, AI agents, or workflow automation.
- Experience in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Technical background or strong technical fluency.
- Experience selling or implementing technology solutions in the DACH market.

Success in the First 6–12 Months

- Establish a clear AI product strategy and roadmap.
- Launch meaningful AI capabilities that solve validated customer problems.
- Establish an effective AI Product Squad operating rhythm.
- Develop strong relationships with key German-speaking customers.
- Introduce measurable AI product KPIs and feedback loops.
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in customer value, adoption, or operational efficiency.

What You´ll Own

- AI product strategy and roadmap: Define where AI creates real customer value, decide what to build or skip, and keep the roadmap tied to measurable business outcomes and operational excellence
End-to-end delivery of AI features: Take features from discovery through launch and iteration, working daily with AI software engineers.
- Evaluation and quality: Own the evaluation approach, including test sets, human review, offline and online experiments, and regression checks, so quality is measured before and after every release.
- Responsible AI and risk: Set guardrails for safety, bias, data privacy, security and compliance, and decide how the product behaves when the model is wrong or uncertain.
- User experience of AI: Shape how users interact with AI, including transparency, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop flows and feedback mechanisms.
- Cross-functional alignment: Align leadership, sales, operations, legal and security around what AI can and can’t do, and set realistic expectations internally and with customers.

## Warum wir?
Why Join Wallround?
- Impact: Shape the future of energy-efficient retrofits and make a real contribution to climate action.
- Growth: Be part of a fast-growing startup with huge market potential.
- Team & Culture: Work alongside a highly motivated, experienced team in Berlin (Kreuzberg). Enjoy a vibrant startup culture, regular team events, and a modern workplace.
- Innovation: Flat hierarchies and fast decision-making—your ideas matter from day one.
- Flexibility & Development: Competitive salary, flexible working hours, and tailored personal growth opportunities.
- Perks & Benefits: €150 monthly benefit budget—use it for public transit tickets, meal allowances, or lifestyle perks (e.g., Urban Sports Club membership or vendor vouchers)