Founding Product Manager (m/f/d)

The role

You will be the first product manager working side by side with founders to build a procurement platform. You will talk to customers, own the roadmap, and work with engineering to ship solutions.

What you will do

• Talk to customers every week and run product sessions
• Turn insights into hypotheses, experiments, and defined success metrics
• Own and defend the product roadmap with evidence
• Work with engineering to shape solutions and write specs
• Monitor customer usage after release to decide next steps
• Build a system to capture customer signals from interviews, sales, and support
• Provide founders with insights on customer problems and market segments
• Become the team's go-to person for customer needs
• Run product day-to-day to allow founders to focus on scaling
• Get first experiments live and use data to kill ideas

Required qualifications

• 1+ year of hands-on product experience, ideally in B2B SaaS
• Experience shipping something real at work or on your own
• Ability to run customer interviews and turn them into decisions
• Ability to test assumptions with qualitative and quantitative data
• Ability to write specs engineers can build from
• Understanding of tech to discuss trade-offs
• Fluent German and English

Nice to have

• Experience with AI products, including judging output quality
• A background in UX research or design
• Domain experience in procurement, bid management, or other document-heavy B2B workflows
• Experience setting up product analytics
• Comfortable building AI-native workflows with tools like Claude Code, n8n, or comparable

Benefits

• The first product seat with real influence
• Close collaboration with the founders
• A live product with real customers
• An AI-native stack
• Competitive base plus meaningful equity
• MacBook
• Sport membership
• A clear path to Head of Product

About the company

A11 partners with Europe’s startups, scaleups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with talent. The company is building a next-generation procurement platform using AI matching and agentic workflow automation.