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Founding Product Manager

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyFull-time2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Define the product roadmap and prioritize use cases for an industrial production planning platform, balancing specific customer needs with generalizable product features.

Role type

Founding Product Manager

Builds

A decision platform for industrial companies to plan production

Domain

Industrial manufacturing / Operations Research

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end product ownership, technical and analytical foundation (engineering/data/operations research/quantitative controlling/finance), requirement analysis, trade-off decision-making, stakeholder management with plant managers and controllers

Preferred skills

Experience in consulting with product proximity, ability to work with incomplete information

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Decide what to build next and what to decline, shape product discovery and prioritization standards, present roadmap to the board, collaborate directly with engineering and customers

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC