Founding Product Manager

Hi, we're Dana and Erik, the founders of Circonomit. We build the decision platform industrial companies use to plan their production. Dana sees the customer side. She needs to know which use cases we can sell today, which we cannot, and what a demo is allowed to claim. Erik sees the engineering side. He needs requirements that are ready to be built, complete, and clear about what we deliberately leave out. The product sits between the two, and that is this role. We sell vertically, one use case at a time, while the product has to stay general enough to serve the next customer without being rebuilt. You decide what we build next, in which order, and what we decline. How you will be measured: how much of today's project work is standard product a year from now, and how quickly a recognised customer problem becomes a usable capability. We came out of RWTH research, raised €2.8M with Vorwerk Ventures, and have customers running on our models today. Small team, Cologne office. Requirements 5+ years in product management, or consulting with genuine product proximity. You have owned a product area end to end, not only a backlog. A technical and analytical foundation: engineering, data, operations research, quantitative controlling, or finance with real modelling. You recognise when a requirement creates technical debt or will not be reusable at the next customer. You will not write production code. Experience deciding under incomplete information, and explaining the trade-offs afte