About the Position

Founding Product Manager (German-speaking)

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.

Responsibilities

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

Lead product discovery - translate complex workflows and customer needs into clear product requirements and success criteria
Develop a deep understanding of how manufacturing and systems-engineering teams work
Identify and define the highest-value customer problems for BoWatt to solve
Help own and prioritize 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 prioritization decisions, and coordinate with Engineering
Improve BoWatt’s processes for discovery, prioritization, product delivery, launches, and feedback
Develop deep expertise in BoWatt’s product, customers, and target industries

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 prioritization, 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

Nice to Have

Experience with enterprise software
Experience with AI products
Experience with manufacturing
Experience with engineering
Experience with systems engineering
Experience with early-stage startups

We Offer

Competitive salary based on experience
Participation in BoWatt’s Founders Pool: 5–10% virtual equity package
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 (5-10%) 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

20-minute screening call
90-minute live product case (CEO and team member)
60-minute culture interview (CEO)
Reference checks & Offer

We aim to complete the entire interview process within 14 days.

Founding Product Manager (German-speaking)

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