AI Lead Product Manager - German Speaker

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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: Berlin, office-first 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)