Product Manager (HEMS)
autarc
Summary
Product Manager for Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) at autarc, a ~40-person Y Combinator startup. This role requires 1-2 years of experience, technical university background, and skills in product discovery, customer engagement, and AI-assisted development to enhance the company's core OS for heat pump installers.
- Location
- Berlin
- Type
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Work mode
- hybrid
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.
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
Our values
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
Product Manager (HEMS)
autarc · Berlin