Product Manager (HEMS)
Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee
Company
Founded in Berlin, autarc is a ~40 person start-up who were part of Y Combinator’s S24 batch in San Francisco. Our team consists of people in Sales, Tech and Operations, with the Engineering & Product department currently ~20 people, as we continue to grow throughout the year.
Role description
We're looking for a Product Manager to head up a new vertical in the team to support our Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) products.
Ideally this person will be 1-2 years into their career and would have studied at a technical university (such as CODE), picking up some software engineering skills that enable them to independently mock-up prototypes.
Other responsibilities will be as follows:
Ideally this person will be 1-2 years into their career and would have studied at a technical university (such as CODE), picking up some software engineering skills that enable them to independently mock-up prototypes.
You'll work alongside our Heating team which consists of multiple experienced Engineers and a dedicated Product Manager, enhancing and optimising the company's main money maker and what got us here today - the OS for heat pump installers.
We're always looking to build the next generation product and with a clear vision to become the agentic OS for the workforce behind the energy transition, that includes leveraging LLMs and NLP in building an AI voice agent to increase efficiencies.
Other responsibilities will be as follows:
- Support leadership in shaping and prioritising the product roadmap
- Run product discovery alongside our teams through direct customer engagement
- Manage product operations in Linear: triage, prioritisation, sprint hygiene
- Build and ship features or prototypes directly using AI-assisted development tools (Lovable, Figma, Cursor, Copilot)
- Facilitate planning sessions with product teams and sprint preps with engineering leads
- Represent autarc in customer calls, sales meetings, and training sessions
- Work alongside our Engineers in building and shipping material
Requirements
- 1-2+ years of experience as a Product Manager or similar
- Desired exposure to working in B2B SaaS
- AI-native in working with tools to help you run faster and jump higher
- Desire to work in an AI-first team/company
- Shown ability to conduct user interviews and product discovery
- Willingness to work autonomously (whilst surrounded by a qualified team)
- Berlin-based and willing to work hybrid
- Native German speaking
What we offer
- Freedom to choose your own equipment (within a budget)
- 26 paid vacation days
- An annual team retreat
- The choice between Dance or JobRad for mobility
- The choice between Classpass or Urban Sports Club for fitness
- Regular team events, lunches and activities
Next steps
If your application is successful, you will participate in the following:
- Screening call with Louis (Recruiter)
- Culture fit call with an Engineer
- Take home case study/exercise
- Final on-site interview with Etienne (CEO) and the team
About us
Right now, 25% of CO2 emissions in Europe are caused by heating our buildings. In order for this to be reduced, the transition towards renewable energy needs to be simplified and made more accessible. There are too few installers to meet the growing demand for heat pumps, and a solution to match this trend needs to be brought to the market.
autarc is developing the leading operating system (OS) for heat pump installers, enabling a more digital and efficient installation process for heat pumps.
Through this, autarc is reducing the hurdles to decarbonizing single-family homes and small apartment buildings in Europe, with the goal to help with the planning and designing of 1 million heat pumps by 2030.
autarc is developing the leading operating system (OS) for heat pump installers, enabling a more digital and efficient installation process for heat pumps.
Through this, autarc is reducing the hurdles to decarbonizing single-family homes and small apartment buildings in Europe, with the goal to help with the planning and designing of 1 million heat pumps by 2030.