Strategic Tech Product Manager-Ai For Risk (Sydney Hybrid)

Marsh; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

1KOMMA5° is seeking a Product Engineering Lead Australia to drive the Australian product for Heartbeat AI. You will lead hands-on engineering, guide the team, and ensure reliability in Australian households.

You will collaborate with our Germany-based Heartbeat AI teams, translate local needs into scalable technical solutions, and help shape hiring and growth as the team expands. Based in Sydney, you will bridge time zones and markets while delivering high-impact software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in a fast-paced, scalable environment.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers or technical teams; formal line management a plus.
• Hands-on depth in distributed systems and cloud; experience designing APIs and integrations.
• Experience with data-intensive, IoT or energy-related systems.
• Strong English communication, written and spoken; able to explain technical choices in business terms.
• Experience enabling AI-assisted workflows in engineering.
• Flexibility to cover regular overlap with German working hours; meetings at unusual times.
• Based in Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Heartbeat in Australia; align with Heartbeat AI engineering teams.
• Set the technical bar; tackle the hardest problems yourself.
• Adapt energy management to Australian tariffs and market structures.
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
• Act as the link between Australian teams, German engineering, and partners; communicate decisions clearly.
• Shape team evolution: processes, hiring, and growth of engineers.
• Participate in hiring and mentor the engineers who join you.
• Build with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows; push for safe, accountable automation.

Skills

Leadership

English comms

API design

Cloud & infra

AI in engineering

Mentoring

German overlap

Sydney resident

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

GKE

Cloud Run

Terraform

TypeScript

NestJS

Next.js

Flutter

Eclipse Hono

MQTT

Mender

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

SQLMesh

Looker

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

Cursor

Agentic workflows

Job description

Product Engineering Lead Heartbeat Australia (m/f/d)

Job Description

At 1KOMMA5° we pursue a clear vision: Living on wind and sunlight forever for free. To make this a reality, we are building the energy system of the future with Heartbeat AI. Want to be part of it? We bring together regional craftsmanship and scalable software: We don't think of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and e-mobility as isolated components, but control them as an intelligent, integrated overall system in our virtual power plant. Directly connected to the electricity market - in real time, fully automated. This way, energy is used when it is available from renewables and particularly cost-effective. By 2030, our goal is to transition 1.5 million households to renewable energies. Over 3,000 people are working towards this every day, at more than 80 locations worldwide, from Finland to Australia.

Our energy core households depend on solar, batteries, heat pumps, AC, and EV charging are controlled and optimized as one system, around the clock, and more value comes out of every kilowatt hour. You will take Heartbeat AI to the next level in Australia technically together with our Heartbeat AI engineering teams in Germany. You bring Australian needs into how the ecosystem evolves, and into how it creates more value over time.

You will be one of the first engineering members of our Australian Product and Tech Team and our engineering lead on the ground. You provide technical leadership from day one, work hands-on, and help shape how the team grows around you. You make sure Heartbeat works reliably in Australian households. You will work hand in hand with our Australian teams and with the Heartbeat AI product and engineering teams in Germany.

Your mission

As Product Engineering Lead Australia, you will work with our App and Energy Management System as a product for the Australian market and support its localization. You help shape the technical foundation of how Heartbeat AI works for Australian households.

As Engineering Lead you will

• provide technical direction for Heartbeat in Australia in close alignment with the Heartbeat AI engineering teams, and be accountable for quality and delivery
• set the technical bar for the team and step into the hardest problems yourself, rather than only directing others
• make the energy management system work for Australian tariffs and market structures
• translate business and product requirements into technical solutions
• be the link between Australian teams, our engineering teams in Germany and our partners, and communicate technical decisions and their business impact clearly
• shape how the team evolves: how we work, who we hire and how we grow engineers
• take part in hiring and mentor the engineers who join you
• build with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, and help drive our shift to agentic engineering, where agents execute safely while humans stay accountable

Technologies we typically work with

• Cloud and infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Cloud Run, Vercel, Terraform
• Applications: TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js (web), Flutter (mobile)
• Messaging and IoT: Eclipse Hono, MQTT, Mender
• Data: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, SQLMesh, Looker
• Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• AI-assisted development with Cursor and agentic workflows. GitHub Actions. Linear, Notion
• Domain: energy market data and tariff-aware optimisation (learned on the job, no prior energy experience required)

Your profile

• at least 5 years of experience in software engineering in a fast-paced, scalable environment
• experience leading or mentoring engineers or technical teams, formal line management is a plus
• hands-on depth in distributed systems and cloud, and experience designing APIs and integrations
• experience with data-intensive, IoT or energy-related systems
• strong communication skills in English, written and spoken, including explaining technical choices in business terms
• experience enabling AI-assisted workflows in engineering
• the flexibility to cover regular overlap with German working hours, with potential meetings at unusual times
• You are based in Sydney

Bonus points for

• experience in climate tech or the energy industry, ideally knowledge of the Australian electricity market and tariffs
• experience as an early engineering hire or building a team in a new region

About us

At 1KOMMA5° our vision is to accelerate CO2 neutral life for all! We created an easy one-stop-shop to buy and install solar, charging stations and heat pumps, with the purpose of liberating all European homes from the shackles of fossil fuels. With Heartbeat, we make clean energy smarter. Connecting our customers into one powerful clean energy operating system to enable flexible tariffs and to ultimately follow the rhythm of wind and sun! - Philipp Schröder (CEO 1KOMMA5°)