Founding Product Manager

About the Role

A seed-stage B2B SaaS company building software and AI tooling for trades and home services SMBs is hiring a Founding Product Manager to join a small, ambitious team in Berlin-Mitte. This is a hands-on builder role with real end-to-end ownership: you'll drive product direction, ship features alongside engineering, and help shape how product work scales from the ground up. The company is backed by well-known early-stage investors and operates in a fast, low-ceremony environment with direct feedback and no management layers.

This role is ideal for a high-agency PM who thrives in ambiguity, thinks in systems, and wants to leave a visible fingerprint on a product used by real tradespeople running real businesses.

What You'll Do

• Own product direction end-to-end — 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 ship features quickly.

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

• Develop deep understanding of users, workflows, and real-world constraints in the trades/home services space.

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

• Help define how product work happens as the company scales.

• Embrace high velocity: fast feedback loops, few meetings, and hands-on shipping.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

• Fluent in both German (spoken and written) and English — German is required for the product interface and partner communications; English for internal team communication.

• AI-native mindset: active use of AI tools in product development and familiarity with AI-first product patterns.

• Experience owning product direction end-to-end, from problem discovery through to shipping.

• Comfortable making decisions under uncertainty and correcting course quickly.

• Experience working closely with engineers — scoping, designing, and iterating on features fast; ability to reason about systems and technical constraints.

• Experience building products for crafts, trades, home services SMBs and/or fast-paced early-stage environments.

• Strong strategic prioritization skills: translating business goals into product bets, including AI-first considerations.

Nice-to-haves:

• Side projects or things you have personally built.

• Strong UX sensibility and attention to UI/UX detail, even without a formal design background.

• Experience using AI tooling in a product development workflow.

Mindset over CV: The team cares more about how you think and act than years of PM experience. High agency, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity are non-negotiable.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: €80,000 – €100,000 per year

• Early-stage equity opportunity

• Modern, light-filled office in Berlin-Mitte

• Direct access to founders and real product influence from day one

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.

Location

This role is fully on-site in Berlin-Mitte, Germany . Daily in-office presence is expected.