Head of Product

Cherry; Berlin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Top compensation

Founders access

Impact mission

Job summary

Cherry is seeking a Head of Product (m/f/d) in Berlin to own and scale the product function. This hands-on, senior role reports to the founders and works closely with engineering. You will drive discovery, prioritisation and delivery, and create the processes and culture for a growing product team.

You’ll partner with customers and GTM to shape the direction of AI-based agents for complex public procurement workflows, building from 0 to 1 and hiring a team when the time is right.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or a closely related role with a track record of shipping.
• Experience at early-stage startups preferred; first product hires or founder experience is a plus.
• Strong ability to translate customer needs into clear product priorities.
• Excellent communicative skills in English and German.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap with founders and customers.
• Lead end-to-end product initiatives from discovery to launch.
• Test and refine AI agents; shape prompts and evaluations.
• Engage with customers to turn feedback into priorities.
• Define how the product function discovers, prioritises, ships and measures.
• Collaborate with GTM and join sales conversations where product insight wins deals.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap leadership

Discovery

Cross-functional collaboration

AI product experimentation

Job description

Head of Product (m/f/d) | Berlin | Full-Time

Location: Berlin, Germany (office first)

Start date: As soon as possible

Company: Early-stage, venture-backed AI startup in the Cherry Ventures portfolio

About Cherry Ventures

Cherry Ventures is a European seed-stage venture firm with offices in Berlin, London and Stockholm. We back founders from day one and help our portfolio companies hire the people who will shape them. We're partnering with one of our portfolio companies to find their Head of Product.

About the Company

This fast-growing AI company builds agents for complex, high-stakes enterprise workflows in public procurement, one of Europe's largest and least digitised markets. Its product takes on the slow, manual, document-heavy work behind public tenders, which saves businesses and the public sector a great deal of wasted time and money. Modern software has barely reached this market, and the team is moving fast to change that.

The Role

The company is hiring a Head of Product to own and scale its product function. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You'll be the most senior product person in the company and work directly with the founders and engineering team. You'll personally drive discovery, prioritisation and delivery. As the company grows, you'll set up how the product function works: its processes, rituals and culture. When the time is right, you'll hire the team around you.

What You'll Do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap, setting direction alongside the founders, engineering and customers.
• Lead core product initiatives end to end, from discovery and scoping through launch and iteration, and ship AI products that enterprise customers rely on.
• Stay close to the product: test, refine and pressure-test the agents, and understand how prompts, context and evaluations shape quality.
• Spend real time with customers. Uncover requirements, turn noisy feedback into clear priorities and become a trusted partner to their business.
• Build the product function. Define how the team discovers, prioritises, ships and measures, and lay the foundations for a future product team.
• Work with GTM on positioning and join sales conversations where product insight wins deals.

Who You Are

• 5+ years in product management or a closely related role (founder, early operator, consulting into product), with a strong record of shipping.
• A startup operator at heart. You've done your best work at early-stage companies, ideally as one of the first product hires or as a founder. Experience only at large corporates won't be the right fit for this role.
• A strong all-rounder, as comfortable setting strategy as writing a detailed spec, debugging an edge case or jumping on a sales call.
• Exceptional product sense and user empathy. You look past the surface of a feature request to find the root problem.
• Technically curious. You don't need a CS degree or coding skills, but you're confident working with engineers and exploring what AI can and can't do.
• A clear communicator who uses both qualitative and quantitative reasoning to make and explain decisions.
• Based in Berlin or ready to relocate.
• Fluent in English and German (required for the company's customer base).
• Nice to have: B2B or enterprise software experience (strongly preferred), hands‑on work with AI/LLM products, or exposure to public sector or regulated markets.

You’ll Thrive If

• You love building from 0 to 1. You don't need a roadmap handed to you, and you enjoy creating structure where there is none.
• You move fast and are energised by an intense, ambitious environment.
• You have a "no task is too small" mindset and lead by doing.
• You love being in the office and believe in-person collaboration drives speed.

What’s In It For You

• Ownership from day one. You'll define the product, with direct access to the founders and zero red tape.
• A role that grows with you. As the company scales, so do your scope and your team.
• Shared upside: top-of-market compensation and generous equity.
• A mission that matters. You won't be optimising ad clicks. You'll be helping businesses and the public sector cut waste on a huge scale.
• Strong backing from Cherry Ventures and our wider portfolio network.

The Process

• Review: Every application is reviewed within 5 days.
• Intro call: 30 minutes on your background and motivations.
• Product deep dive (remote): 1 hour on your product thinking and problem-solving.
• On-site (half day): Work through a real product use case with the team, followed by 1:1s with Engineering and GTM.
• Offer: A quick final decision and transparent feedback straight after the on-site.