AI Lead Product Manager - German Speaker

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: Germany / DACH 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. 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. 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)