Product Manager Intern (Solar)

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 Intern to work in one of our key product teams in building the leading OS for Europe's solar workforce.

You'll help lead our GTM efforts as the business plans to expand into LATAM, including places like Mexico and Brazil. This means you'll be diving deep into understanding user and consumer behaviours whilst putting together a clear plan on what our potential strategy could look like as a result.

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

This is a Product Manager position but as the landscape of the industry shifts, we also expect you to build and tangibly contribute on a day-to-day basis.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of experience
• Strong academia background having studied at a top university
• AI-native in working with tools to help you run faster and jump higher
• Desire to conduct user interviews and product discovery 
• A keen interest in renewables and clean energy
• Berlin-based and willing to work hybrid 
• Bi-lingual in speaking both English and Portuguese/Spanish 

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 a Product Manager
• Take home case study/exercise  
• Final on-site interview with Marius (CTO) and the team