Founding Product Manager @ handly - 20VC backed

Overview

handly is an early stage, VC backed company building an AI first operating system for craft businesses. We recently raised €3.75m from 20VC, Stride and Base10 and are building a small, performant team with high ownership and high trust.

Role

We are looking for a Product Manager who wants real responsibility: shaping product direction, making decisions with imperfect information, shipping themselves and working hands on with engineering to ship fast and learn faster. This is not a process heavy PM role. It is a builder role.

Responsibilities

• Own product direction end to end, from understanding user problems to shaping solutions and shipping them
• Translate company goals into clear product bets, priorities, and tradeoffs
• Work very closely with engineering to scope, design and ship features and iterate quickly
• Make product decisions with incomplete data and course correct when needed
• Develop a deep understanding of users, workflows, and real world constraints
• Bring clarity to the team on what we are building, why, and what done means
• Help shape how product work happens at handly as we scale

Requirements

This role is about how you work , not just where you worked.

You should strongly identify with most of the following:

• High agency. You take ownership, push things forward, and do not wait for permission
• AI native mindset. You actively use AI tools and think in AI first product patterns
• Strong technical understanding and ability to reason about systems and constraints
• Good product taste and a clear opinion on what makes a product great
• You care about UX and details, even if you are not a trained designer
• Comfortable making decisions with imperfect or incomplete information
• Comfortable being wrong and correcting course quickly
• Experience in fast paced, early stage environments
• Side projects or things you have built on your own are a strong plus

Language Requirement

• Fluent German (spoken and written). The product interface is fully in German and most of our partners communicate exclusively in German.
• Fluent English for internal communication.

We care more about how you think and act than years of PM experience.

Benefits

In-office daily: Berlin-Mitte, modern light-filled workspace with a large balcony

• Velocity: fast loops, direct feedback, no management layers
• Growth: as much responsibility as you can handle
• Team: tight, ambitious group that enjoys building hard things together
• Focus: No stand-ups and only two short meetings per week

Application Process

If this sounds like your kind of role, we would love to talk.

Our process is simple and fast:

• Intro call
• Conversation with Basti
• Practical discussion around product thinking and collaboration with Kais
• On site session with Kais, Basti and Alain. Whiteboarding, product and culture focus (half day)

No lengthy case studies. No drawn out process.