Founding Product Lead (m/f/x) (Remote)

Founding Product Lead (m/f/x)

Company Overview

We’re Cortea, a Berlin-based startup building AI products that transform how audits get done.

Auditors spend too much time on manual, repetitive work. We’re fixing that by giving them AI tools that understand their workflows and eliminate the grind. Backed by top-tier VCs with €10m+ in funding, real customers, and a working product — now it’s time to scale.

We value first-principles thinking, speed, trust, and kindness. We work side by side in our Berlin office, moving fast and learning faster.

Job Summary

You’re here to make sure we solve the right problems. As Founding Product Lead, you’ll own core products in our AI toolbox—sometimes the entire toolbox itself. You’ll live at the intersection of customer insight, technical depth, and business sense, translating complexity into clarity.

You’ll work directly with our founders, engineers, and designers to define what success looks like, ensure we’re building for real customer value, and shape the way Cortea does product management.

Key Responsibilities

• Fully own and evolve products in our AI toolbox
• Talk to customers weekly to uncover pain points and validate solutions
• Collaborate tightly with engineering and design to deliver high-value outcomes fast
• Shape and improve our product management approach as we grow
• Set crisp goals, ensure focus, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact
• Keep the team anchored in why—not just what

Requirements / Qualifications

• Have 5+ years experience, with 3+ years in product roles
• Built and shipped multiple B2B SaaS products from zero to scale
• Go deep into context to truly understand user problems
• Care about outcomes more than process, and clarity more than frameworks
• Know how an efficient product management approach looks like
• Know what PMF really means because you’ve lived through it—preferably in early-stage startups

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve founded a company or serious side project before
• You’re fluent in both product strategy and hands-on execution

Salary & Benefits

High impact & growth: Front-row seat to scaling an AI startup with real ownership from day one

Mission-driven culture: First-principles thinking, bold ideas, and a supportive team

Compensation: €70–110k salary + meaningful equity

Personal development: Learning budget for courses and conferences

In-office setup: Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation

Application 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