Founding Product Manager

Department: Engineering

Location: Berlin

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

This is a founding PM role at a seed-stage B2B SaaS company building software and AI-powered back-office tools for trades and home services SMBs. You'll own product direction end-to-end — from understanding user problems to shipping solutions — and help define how product work scales as the team grows. It's a high-ownership, low-ceremony role with direct impact from day one.

What You'll Do

• Own the full product lifecycle: discovery, prioritisation, scoping, and shipping.

• Translate company goals into clear product bets, priorities, and tradeoffs.

• Work closely with engineering to scope and ship features quickly and iteratively.

• Make product decisions with incomplete data and course-correct as needed.

• Develop deep understanding of users, their workflows, and real-world constraints.

• Bring clarity to the team on what is being built, why, and what "done" means.

• Help shape how product work is done as the company scales.

• Operate in a fast, high-velocity environment with few meetings and direct feedback.

What We're Looking For

• End-to-end product ownership experience in fast-paced, early-stage environments.

• AI-native mindset: hands-on experience applying AI-first product patterns and using AI tools in product development.

• Strong technical understanding — able to reason about systems, constraints, and engineering tradeoffs.

• Experience collaborating closely with engineers to scope, design, and ship features.

• Domain experience with crafts, trades, home services, or SMB-focused products is a strong plus.

• Good product taste and clear opinions on what makes a product great.

• Attention to UX and UI detail, even without a formal design background.

• High agency: you take ownership, push things forward, and don't wait for permission.

• Comfortable making decisions under uncertainty and correcting course quickly.

• Fluent in both German (spoken and written) and English — both are required.

• Side projects or things you've built independently are a strong plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: €80,000 – €100,000 per year. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

On-site, five days a week in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.