AI Lead Product Manager - German Speaker (m/f/d)
- 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.
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. Language: German & English Dein Profil What We´re Looking For Essential
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. We offer Department: Prod & Tech Functional Home: AI Reports to: CPO / Head of Product & Technology Location: Germany / DACHSeniority: Lead / Senior Warum wir? Why Join Wallround?
- 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.
- 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)
- Über uns
- WALLROUND ist ein PropTech-Startup aus Berlin. Mit starken Partnern (u. a. Vonovia) entwickeln wir eine tech-enabled End-to-End-Sanierungslösung für Null-Emissions-Gebäude. Mit der Seed-Runde konnten wir mit Revent und dem Green Generation Fund Top-Investoren gewinnen. Wir transformieren Gebäude – einfach, profitabel und effizient für Vermieter:innen.
About the Role 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