Founding Product Manager

BoWatt GmbH

München

Presencial

EUR 90.000 - 130.000

Jornada completa

14 días+

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Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary based on experience

Founders Pool participation

Significant ownership over product

Help build product function and ways‑e

25 vacation days per year, plus public

Company retreats

WellPass membership

Descripción de la vacante

BoWatt is building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing in Munich. We seek a Founding Product Manager to determine what BoWatt builds, why we build it, and how it creates value for customers.

You will partner across commercial, customer success, and engineering teams, translating customer problems into clear opportunities and driving initiatives from discovery to launch and iteration.

Formación

At least two years of experience in Product Management or a comparable role.
Experience shipping B2B software in collaboration with engineers.
Experience conducting product discovery and translating customer problems into clear requirements.
Strong prioritisation, project management, and stakeholder-management skills.
Fluent German; English is our internal working language.
Four days per week in our Munich office at Balanstraße.
Experience with enterprise software, AI products, manufacturing, engineering, or early-stage startups is a bonus.

Responsabilidades

Lead product discovery with customers, users, Customer Success, Sales, and Engineering.
Develop understanding of how manufacturing and systems-engineering teams work.
Translate complex workflows into clear product requirements and success criteria.
Help own and prioritise the product roadmap.
Balance strategic opportunities, customer needs, and engineering effort.
Drive initiatives from discovery through development, launch, and iteration.
Provide engineers context and clarity for implementation decisions.
Prototype and test potential solutions with customers during development.
Turn customer feedback into scalable product improvements.

Conocimientos

Product management

B2B software

Stakeholder management

Technical communication

German language

Descripción del empleo

About BoWatt

BoWatt is building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing.

We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years. This will unlock massive value across complex manufacturing industries. Cars. Planes. Rockets. Factories. Chips. Medical devices. All will be engineered with agents.

We bootstrapped BoWatt to €500k+ ARR before raising our first round. BoWatt is backed by tier-1 investors, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo.

You’ll join a small team of startup builders focused on speed, ownership, and execution. Over half the team are former founders, with backgrounds across DeepTech AI, gaming, and other startups. We’ve studied and worked at institutions and companies including Stanford, TUM, Google, EA, and YC-backed AI startups.

The role

As our Founding Product Manager, you will help determine what BoWatt builds, why we build it, and whether it creates meaningful value for customers.

You will work closely across our commercial, customer success and engineering teams, as well as with our customers. You will develop a deep understanding of complex engineering workflows, turn customer problems into clear product opportunities, and drive initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration.

This is a hands-on product role. You will spend time with customers, work through technical and operational detail, write requirements, make trade-offs, test solutions, and help the team ship quickly.

Lead product discovery with customers, users, Customer Success, Sales, and Engineering
Develop a deep understanding of how manufacturing and systems-engineering teams work
Identify and define the highest-value customer problems for BoWatt to solve
Translate complex workflows and customer needs into clear product requirements and success criteria
Help own and prioritise the product roadmap
Balance strategic opportunities, recurring customer needs, commercial importance, and engineering effort
Drive product initiatives from initial discovery through scoping, development, launch, and iteration
Give engineers the context and clarity needed to make strong implementation decisions
Prototype and test potential solutions with customers before and during development
Work with Customer Success to turn individual customer feedback into scalable product improvements
Use qualitative feedback and product data to understand adoption and evaluate whether features are working
Triage product issues and bugs, make clear prioritisation decisions, and coordinate with Engineering
Improve BoWatt’s processes for discovery, prioritisation, product delivery, launches, and feedback
Develop deep expertise in BoWatt’s product, customers, and target industries

During your first six months, you will work closely with our engineering team to build the domain and product knowledge required to take ownership of increasingly important product areas.

You

You are deeply curious about customers and want to understand how their work actually happens
You enjoy turning complex, ambiguous problems into clear product decisions
You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution
You can distinguish between an individual customer request and a scalable product opportunity
You make thoughtful trade-offs and are comfortable deciding with incomplete information
You write clearly, communicate confidently, and know how to get to the point
You are comfortable working closely with software engineers and discussing technical constraints
You move quickly without losing sight of product quality or customer outcomes
You take ownership of results rather than simply managing tickets and meetings
You want to build a product function rather than inherit an established playbook
You are ambitious, resourceful, and excited to become an expert in a complex industry

Requirements

At least two years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Product Operations, or a comparable product-building role
Experience shipping B2B software in close collaboration with engineers
Experience conducting product discovery and translating customer problems into clear requirements
Strong prioritisation, project management, and stakeholder-management skills
The ability to understand technical products and communicate with engineers, technical users, and business stakeholders
Fluent German required; English is our internal working language
Four days per week in our Munich office at Balanstraße
Experience with enterprise software, AI products, manufacturing, engineering, systems engineering, or early-stage startups is a bonus

What we offer

Competitive salary based on experience
Participation in BoWatt’s Founders Pool
Significant ownership over an important part of BoWatt’s product
The opportunity to help build BoWatt’s product function and ways of working
25 vacation days per year, plus public holidays
Company retreats
WellPass membership

The Founders Pool

BoWatt’s Founders Pool is a dedicated virtual-equity pool for a small group of early team members who take responsibility for building and leading a major part of the company.

We created it because we want the people building BoWatt alongside us to participate meaningfully in the value they help create. These are not narrow execution roles with finished playbooks. You will own your vertical with co-founder-like autonomy and accountability: setting the standard, making difficult trade-offs, and being responsible for the results.

As our Founding Product Manager, you will participate in the Founders Pool and take meaningful ownership of how BoWatt’s product develops. The precise allocation, vesting structure, and plan terms will be discussed transparently during the interview process.

Interview process