Product Manager (f/m/d)

Also searchable as: Founding Product Manager

• B2B Product Manager
• AI Product Manager
• Technical Product Manager

Original title: Product Manager (f/m/d)

WhyBrilliant is sourcing applicants for this role on behalf of a well-funded Berlin-based energy tech startup.

The company's identity may stay confidential until first contact.

The Role

Job Title: Product Manager (f/m/d)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Why this role matters

Following our recent seed financing and rapid inbound enterprise demand, our founders need a dedicated product leader to translate domain complexity into scalable software. You will bridge the gap between our engineering team, internal energy trading experts, and industrial clients to establish the foundation of our product organization.

What You'll Do

• Own the core product roadmap, prioritizing features ruthlessly and defining clear, detailed specifications.
• Run continuous discovery with industrial enterprise clients and internal energy portfolio managers to uncover critical operational bottlenecks.
• Collaborate daily with engineering and design from initial wireframes and interactive prototypes through to release.
• Integrate agentic and AI-assisted workflows that automate heavy energy operations while ensuring strict human oversight and control.
• Define pricing, packaging, and commercial positioning in close partnership with company leadership.
• Instrument core workflow telemetry, track adoption and retention metrics, and deprecate underperforming features.

Who this is a fit for

• 4+ years of product management experience shipping tech products.
• Proven track record launching enterprise software 0-to-1 to paying business customers.
• Background in precision-critical domains like energy, commodities, trading, ERP, or fintech.
• Hands-on skills in software design, wireframing, and prototyping in Figma.
• Comfortable writing SQL queries independently to validate data models and user metrics.
• Experience with or deep practical understanding of agentic and AI-driven workflows.
• Fluent in English; German proficiency is a strong operational advantage.

What it's like to work here

High-autonomy, founder-led product culture rooted directly in customer demand and deep domain depth. Product decisions are driven by hands-on discussions between the founders, enterprise sales, and in-house portfolio management experts who spent years in energy operations. The team operates close to industrial clients, moving fast with high ownership while maintaining strict precision on complex enterprise workflows.

The offer

• First product hire status with direct influence over company strategy and product culture.
• Direct collaboration with experienced founders, engineering leads, and veteran energy operations experts.
• Massive ownership over 0-to-1 architecture within a mission-critical enterprise domain.
• Hybrid working setup based out of the vibrant AI Campus in Berlin.

This probably isn't for you if

• You prefer established product frameworks, mature feature backlogs, and large specialized teams over 0-to-1 building.
• You shy away from numerical complexity, deep regulatory/market domain nuance, or precision-critical data.
• You delegate hands-on design, prototyping, and SQL querying rather than doing them yourself.