Founding Product Manager (German-speaking)

About BoWattBoWatt 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 roleAs 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 - translate complex workflows and customer needs into clear product requirements and success criteriaDevelop a deep understanding of how manufacturing and systems-engineering teams workIdentify and define the highest-value customer problems for BoWatt to solveHelp own and prioritise the product roadmapBalance strategic opportunities, recurring customer needs, commercial importance, and engineering effortDrive product initiatives from initial discovery through scoping, development, launch, and iterationGive engineers the context and clarity needed to make strong implementation decisionsPrototype and test potential solutions with customers before and during developmentWork with Customer Success to turn individual customer feedback into scalable product improvementsUse qualitative feedback and product data to understand adoption and evaluate whether features are workingTriage product issues and bugs, make clear prioritisation decisions, and coordinate with EngineeringImprove BoWatt’s processes for discovery, prioritisation, product delivery, launches, and feedbackDevelop deep expertise in BoWatt’s product, customers, and target industriesDuring 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.YouYou are deeply curious about customers and want to understand how their work actually happensYou enjoy turning complex, ambiguous problems into clear product decisionsYou combine strategic thinking with hands-on executionYou can distinguish between an individual customer request and a scalable product opportunityYou make thoughtful trade-offs and are comfortable deciding with incomplete informationYou write clearly, communicate confidently, and know how to get to the pointYou are comfortable working closely with software engineers and discussing technical constraintsYou move quickl