Senior Product Manager

About the Job

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Product Manager to join our dynamic and young team. You will have the exciting opportunity of gaining valuable experience in a startup environment and contribute to reducing 4.4% of global CO emissions.

Tasks

Job Role Summary:

You will own the product lifecycle from ideation to delivery creating impactful products that balance technical feasibility customer value and speed. With deep technical expertise youll lead tradeoff discussions minimize technical debt and prioritize features based on data and market needs. Youll identify strategic gaps refine product strategies and enable crossfunctional teams to succeed.

This role is not about micromanaging tasks or executing narrowly scoped features. It requires a systemsthinking approach to product management blending strategic insight operational efficiency and iteration. Youll engage customers to uncover insights validate assumptions and ensure product decisions deliver clear value.

Requirements

As a Senior Product Manager you will work directly with our head of product (cofounder of Podero) and contribute to the development and success of Poderos product our customers and our engineering teams. This role will allow you to grow while making a tangible impact on the global push for CO neutrality.

Key Responsibilities

As part of your role at Podero your responsibilities will include:

• Product Expertise: Develop a comprehensive understanding of our platform and the technical landscape around it. Become the goto resource for device steering electricity flexibility trading device compatibility advanced API functionalities and how each feature ties back to customer and market needs.
• Product Execution: Shape the product lifecycle from concept to delivery. Prioritize features based on technical tradeoffs user impact and urgency. Balance speed with quality ensuring we ship features that truly solve customer problems. Independently plan and execute features of any size with minimal oversight.
• Product Vision & Strategy: Build deep understanding of our product vision market trends and customer pain points. Proactively gather market insights identify strategic gaps challenge assumptions and work to refine or redefine the product strategy. Drive discussions with leadership to keep us ahead in a competitive market. Establish processes for gathering metrics and prioritizing based on customer and market impact.
• Customer Interaction: Lead interviews and workshops to uncover deep user needs. Oversee largescale rollouts for utility clients capturing feedback to refine the product. Champion customer insights across the company ensuring we always deliver realworld value.
• Collaboration with Engineering: Engage in technical and customer success standups and backlog grooming. Translate customer feedback into actionable user stories ensuring we address scalability security and usability. Guide discussions on tradeoffs championing what delivers the most impact.

Desired Experience

You have proven experience in product management for a B2B technology company in:

• PM track record: Proven track record in managing product lifecycles with minimal oversight. Youve shipped impactful features at scale.
• Strategic thinking: You are able to precisely explain your past strategic decisions and what user feedback company objectives industry research and other factors/data lead influenced them. You have successfully applied methods to gather data relevant for product decisions.
• Technical Knowledge: You understand APIs software architecture and can hold your own in technical discussions with engineers.
• Agile leadership: Leading crossfunctional product/software teams in a real agile environment. You can teach the Agile approach to more junior colleagues and other peers.
• Build deep relationships with customers: Understanding how to talk to customers gather feedback and pain points and translating them into features that matter.
• Leveraging New Technologies (like Generative AI) to Streamline and Improve Processes

We care about your ability to deliver great work and to be bestinclass in your specialization. We dont expect you to be an expert in every subject right away as we work at the intersection of several disciplines. However we expect that you are eager to learn and able to find great solutions to challenging problems.

Qualifications & Preferred Skills

Recommended or desired qualifications you would need to fulfill this role:

• Demonstrated Success of exceptional work in building and scaling a product marketing or content marketing function.
• 3 years of product management experience ideally in a startup.
• Ability to structure thought concisely and logically in written and spoken form
• Expertise in some technical field (e.g. Computer Science Engineering Sciences).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a customercentric approach to problemsolving. You work well across diverse teams present ideas clearly and get buyin.
• Thought leadership: You engage in internal and external Product Management communities.
• Pragmatic approach to delivering fitforpurpose solutions that balance simplicity and effectiveness avoiding needless complexity
• Knowledge certification or training in Agile methodologies is a plus.
• Familiarity and Drive to leverage new technology (like generative AI) to streamline and improve processes.
• Passion for Climate Tech and making a measurable impact on the environment.
• SelfMotivation with a continuous drive to improve processes and learn from best practices.
• Familiarity with the Energy Sector or utilities industry is a plus but not required.

Benefits

• MissionDriven Work: Help reduce 4.4% of global CO emissions by contributing to the transition towards a more sustainable energy grid and strengthening Europes energy independence.
• Young and dynamic environment: Flat hierarchies and a fun workplacewere a young team that gets along great!
• Learning / Professional Growth: Join a fastpaced earlystage startup with significant learning and career advancement opportunities. Access to a strong network including investors and key stakeholders in the energy and tech industries
• Startup experience: Experience firsthand how top companies create value from 0 to 1 while outpacing their competition and creating realworld value.
• Employee stock options: Benefit from the companys growth next to a competitive salary.
• Successbased compensation: Personal and companybased commission with the opportunity to influence your salary.
• Work Flexibility: Remote or hybrid work options with the ability to work in our Vienna office. Wed love to have you on site in Vienna for the first 812 weeks of your employment.
• 25 Days of Annual Leave
• Offsites and travel budget: Regular Team Events and exciting offsite experiences all across Europe. Travel budgets for customer visits conferences and industry events.
• Additional Perks: MacBook plus any equipment (AirPods etc.) you might need to get your work done as effectively as possible. Snacks coffee and fruit at the office.

About Us

Energy suppliers face many challenges in their B2C business including low margins low differentiation of their electricity offers emerging market players unprofitable electricity trading and limited IT resources.

Podero is a software platform for utilities that reduces the energy cost of flexible consumer devices like heat pumps EVs and chargers inverters and home batteries by over 25%. Utilities roll out Podero using our whitelabel web app or integrating our API into their apps. Podero steers devices based on consumers PV production fluctuating spot electricity prices and the gridstabilizing balancing energy markets. Podero enables utilities to trade the aggregate device power on the energy markets ensuring a winwin situation for both utilities and consumers.

Customers of Podero include E.ON TotalEnergies oekostrom KELAG and more.

Mission

Our vision is to accelerate towards a world of abundant clean energy How By creating the most profitable trading software for electric devices (Distributed Energy Resources).

We are solving one of the most fundamental problems of the electricity grid caused by the rapid consumer adoption of Distributed Energy Resources like heat pumps EVs and batteries and the simultaneous exponential growth of renewable power generation. Renewables like solar and wind cause spikes in production while Distributed Energy Resources cause spikes in consumption unfortunately mostly at opposite times.

We balance supply and demand in electricity markets by utilizing existing consumer devices as energy storage. Each time we shift the electricity use of consumer devices to match supply and demand our software makes profitable trades benefiting consumers and utilities. This balances the grid which means that more consumers can use CO2friendly Distributed Energy Resources and more renewables can be brought online.

In short we are giving Podero back to the people!

Our Culture

Podero is a group of relentless operators and driven domain experts who genuinely care about what they do. We all rally around the mission of decarbonizing electricity and feel proud about building an inspiring product. We value pragmatism sharp focus quick iterations failing fast and connecting our daily tasks to our mission. We are driven by customer obsession working closely with customers to uncover what is true in our market gathering frequent feedback communicating openly and building solutions that truly meet their needs. We value bias for action over perfectionism and overplanning and look for passionate individuals who complete their work with urgency and curiosity. We value learning on the job learning from colleagues customers mentors and competitors. We ensure everyone can collaborate transparently with trust radical candor and conscientiousness.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.