Job description
AI Product Manager (m/f/x)
Company Overview
We’re Cortea, a Berlin-based startup rebuilding how audits are done. Audits are still driven by spreadsheets, checklists, and manual reviews in one of the most regulated, high-stakes areas of business. We build AI tools for auditors, so highly educated auditors no longer spend 60+ hour weeks on manual work and can focus on judgment, trust, and choices that matter. With €10m+ in funding, a live product, and paying customers across Europe, we’re at a stage where your choices will directly shape Cortea’s future, and how audits are done.
Job Summary
As an AI Product Manager, you'll work on products in our AI audit toolbox alongside engineers, designers, auditors and our founders. You'll spend your time understanding what auditors need, helping shape what we build next, and making sure we ship things that actually solve real problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the discovery, definition, and delivery of products in our AI toolbox
- Talk to customers weekly to uncover pain points and validate solutions
- Prototype with AI tools (Cursor, Claude, v0, etc.) to test ideas in hours, instead of weeks
- Work tightly with engineering and design throughout the build cycle
- Help us understand the messy reality of AI capabilities (and limits) and turn that into product decisions: what's worth building, what's not yet ready, where humans stay in the loop
- Bring structure to the problem space: clear writing, sharp questions, useful PRDs
Requirements / Qualifications
- Have 4–7 years of experience, with at least 2 years in a product role
- Have shipped B2B SaaS products that real customers pay for and use
- Are AI-native in how you work: you use LLMs, agents, and AI tooling daily and have strong intuition for what they can and can't do today
- Have shipped at least one AI-powered feature or product and understand the unique product challenges (evals, latency, hallucinations, trust, UX of probabilistic systems)
- Go deep into context to truly understand user problems
- Are comfortable in early-stage startup chaos — high autonomy, high ambiguity, high speed
Preferred Qualifications
- You've founded a company or shipped a serious AI side project
- You can read code, run small scripts, or fine-tune prompts yourself
- Experience in audit, compliance, legal, or another document-heavy professional services domain
Location
Berlin, Germany, Remote: False
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Compensation: €60–90k salary + meaningful equity
- Personal development: Learning budget for courses and conferences
- In-office setup: Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation
Application Process
Interview process:
- First Call - Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Leon
- Second Call - Product deep-dive with Philipp
- Third Call - Deep dive into our culture with Valentin
- On-site Half-Day (Berlin) — Meet the team and work on a real problem together
