# Founding Product Manager

[Clera](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Clera) · Berlin · Posted 2 days ago

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

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## Job description

### ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a founding product role at a small, fast-moving team building vertical SaaS and AI tooling for the skilled trades industry in the German market. You will own product end-to-end, working directly with engineering to ship features that solve real problems for real users. It is a high-ownership, high-impact position with no management layers between you and the work.

### WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own the full product direction, 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 deliver features quickly.

- Make confident product decisions with incomplete information and course-correct fast.

- Develop a deep understanding of users, their workflows, and real-world constraints.

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

- Help define and scale how product work happens as the company grows.

- Operate in a low-ceremony, high-velocity environment with direct feedback and fast loops.

### WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Genuine end-to-end product management experience with proven ownership in early-stage startup environments.

- Meaningful hands-on experience at a pre-Series B or seed-stage company; primarily corporate or late-stage backgrounds are not a fit.

- AI-native mindset: comfortable applying AI-first product patterns and using AI tools actively in product development.

- Strong technical understanding and experience scoping and shipping features directly with engineers.

- Good product taste with close attention to UX and detail, even without a formal design background.

- High agency: you take ownership, push things forward, and do not wait for permission.

- Comfortable being wrong and correcting course quickly in the face of ambiguity.

- Native or near-native German proficiency (at least C1, spoken and written); the product and many partners operate in German.

- Fluent English for internal communication.

- Independent side projects or products you have built on your own are a strong plus.

### COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary range: 80,000 to 100,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

### LOCATION

On-site, five days a week in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Daily in-office presence is required.

**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.

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