# Founding Product Manager

[Clera](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Clera) · Berlin · Posted yesterday

Contract

[Product Manager](https://gurify.com/jobs/product-manager)

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## Job description

### ABOUT THE ROLE

A seed-stage B2B SaaS company building software and AI tooling for trades and home services SMBs is hiring a Founding Product Manager to join a small, ambitious team in Berlin-Mitte. This is a hands-on builder role with real end-to-end ownership: you'll drive product direction, ship features alongside engineering, and help shape how product work scales from the ground up. The company is backed by well-known early-stage investors and operates in a fast, low-ceremony environment with direct feedback and no management layers.

This role is ideal for a high-agency PM who thrives in ambiguity, thinks in systems, and wants to leave a visible fingerprint on a product used by real tradespeople running real businesses.

### WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own product direction end-to-end — from understanding user problems to shaping solutions and shipping them.

- Translate company goals into clear product bets, priorities, and tradeoffs.

- Work closely with engineering to scope, design, and ship features quickly.

- Make product decisions with incomplete data and course-correct as needed.

- Develop deep understanding of users, workflows, and real-world constraints in the trades/home services space.

- Bring clarity to the team on what is being built, why, and what "done" looks like.

- Help define how product work happens as the company scales.

- Embrace high velocity: fast feedback loops, few meetings, and hands-on shipping.

### WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

### Must-haves:

- Fluent in both German (spoken and written) and English — German is required for the product interface and partner communications; English for internal team communication.

- AI-native mindset: active use of AI tools in product development and familiarity with AI-first product patterns.

- Experience owning product direction end-to-end, from problem discovery through to shipping.

- Comfortable making decisions under uncertainty and correcting course quickly.

- Experience working closely with engineers — scoping, designing, and iterating on features fast; ability to reason about systems and technical constraints.

- Experience building products for crafts, trades, home services SMBs and/or fast-paced early-stage environments.

- Strong strategic prioritization skills: translating business goals into product bets, including AI-first considerations.

### Nice-to-haves:

- Side projects or things you have personally built.

- Strong UX sensibility and attention to UI/UX detail, even without a formal design background.

- Experience using AI tooling in a product development workflow.

Mindset over CV: The team cares more about how you think and act than years of PM experience. High agency, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity are non-negotiable.

### COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Salary: €80,000 – €100,000 per year

- Early-stage equity opportunity

- Modern, light-filled office in Berlin-Mitte

- Direct access to founders and real product influence from day one

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Candidates must already have the right to work in Germany.

### LOCATION

This role is fully on-site in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Daily in-office presence is expected.

**Live in Clera’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role.

We remove it as soon as it disappears at source.

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