OPTIMUSE is a Vienna-based AI startup rethinking the real estate and construction industry. Our AI, Hans, generates insights on costs, risks, and optimization potential in seconds — grounded in building physics, simulation, and real engineering — both before construction and for existing buildings. Behind us: international investors. Ahead of us: an enormous market. In between: a team of around 25 people from roughly 10 nationalities, with genuine engineering depth.
We're now looking for a Product Manager to take our platform to the next level - owning the roadmap, pricing, and scope along the way. Not managing. Shaping.
What you'll own
- The roadmap across all product areas. You decide what ships next - and you stand behind the why.
- The path from prototype to platform. You sequence the porting effort in waves, cut scope where it's needed, and keep the codebases together instead of letting them drift apart.
- Pricing and packaging. You align packaging with sales, keep the unit economics of compute-intensive simulation runs healthy, and own the Stripe catalog end-to-end.
- Discovery with asset managers, developers, and building engineers - you understand their language because you come from the construction/real estate world yourself, and you translate between building practice and product.
- Quality standards for simulation results. Engineers have to trust the numbers. You define, per engine, what "good enough to ship" means, and you manage the trade-off between physical accuracy and product speed.
- The written trail. PRDs, a well-maintained decision log, release notes. Our rule: if it isn't documented, it didn't happen.
Who we're looking for
- Product management experience in a B2B SaaS environment - with substantial time spent on a technical or data-intensive product.
- Professional experience in the construction / real estate / AEC industry
- An AI-native way of working: for you, AI is a tool, not a buzzword.
- Real technical confidence. You question a data model, follow a discussion with engineers, and understand a simulation output well enough to challenge it.
- A degree that connects building energy systems, simulation, and building operations across engineering disciplines - or equivalent hands-on competence in building analysis and simulation
- Fluent English; professional German strongly preferred.
Why us?
- Real impact. Your product decisions feed into real investment decisions and move the platform forward in tangible ways.
- The full solution chain. From digital twin to performance monitoring - a complete product portfolio rather than isolated one-off projects.
- Flexible working models. Home-office option & a modern office in the heart of Vienna.
- And the day-to-day works too. Daily meal allowance (€5/day), regular team events, free snacks.