About us

We’re Cortea, a Berlin-based startup rebuilding how audits are done.

Audits are still driven by spreadsheets, checklists, and manual reviews in one of the most regulated, high-stakes areas of business.

We build AI tools for auditors, so highly educated auditors no longer spend 60+ hour weeks on manual work and can focus on judgment, trust, and choices that matter.

With €10m+ in funding, a live product, and paying customers across Europe, we’re at a stage where your choices will directly shape Cortea’s future, and how audits are done.

Your Role

As an AI Product Manager, you'll work on products in our AI audit toolbox alongside engineers, designers, auditors and our founders. You'll spend your time understanding what auditors need, helping shape what we build next, and making sure we ship things that actually solve real problems.

What you'll do

Contribute to the discovery, definition, and delivery of products in our AI toolbox
Talk to customers weekly to uncover pain points and validate solutions
Prototype with AI tools (Cursor, Claude, v0, etc.) to test ideas in hours, instead of weeks
Work tightly with engineering and design throughout the build cycle
Help us understand the messy reality of AI capabilities (and limits) and turn that into product decisions: what's worth building, what's not yet ready, where humans stay in the loop
Bring structure to the problem space: clear writing, sharp questions, useful PRDs

What success looks like

You've contributed to and shipped 3+ meaningful product bets within your first 6 months, learning through iteration and customer feedback along the way.

You've gone deep on at least one core product area (e.g. a specific tool in our AI toolbox, a customer segment, our evals & quality framework, or the UX of agentic workflows) and become exceptionally strong in it
You're trusted by founders, engineers, and customers to steward important product decisions

Who you are

Have 4–7 years of experience, with at least 2 years in a product role
Have shipped B2B SaaS products that real customers pay for and use
Are AI-native in how you work: you use LLMs, agents, and AI tooling daily and have strong intuition for what they can and can't do today
Have shipped at least one AI-powered feature or product and understand the unique product challenges (evals, latency, hallucinations, trust, UX of probabilistic systems)
Go deep into context to truly understand user problems
Are comfortable in early-stage startup chaos — high autonomy, high ambiguity, high speed

Bonus points

You've founded a company or shipped a serious AI side project
You can read code, run small scripts, or fine-tune prompts yourself
Experience in audit, compliance, legal, or another document-heavy professional services domain

What We Offer

High impact & growth: Front-row seat to a fast-scaling AI startup, with the chance to grow alongside the product
Mission-driven culture: First-principles thinking, bold ideas, and a supportive team
Compensation: €60–90k salary + meaningful equity
Personal development: Learning budget for courses and conferences
In-office setup: Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation

Interview process

First Call - Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Leon
Second Call - Product deep-dive with Philipp
Third Call - Deep dive into our culture with Valentin
On-site Half-Day (Berlin) — Meet the team and work on a real problem together

AI Product Manager (m/f/x)