AI Lead Product Manager - German Speaker

About this role

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
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• 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
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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)