Junior Product Manager (German Required)

🟪 Podero is a fully funded 12-people seed-stage startup currently growing to ~20 people.

🟪 At Podero you’ll have a great support system around you. Our founders Chris and Moritz are both engineers and understand the intricacies of technical product decisions. Sebastian, our head of engineering has over 20 years of experience and is known for giving non-opinionated advice. Our team of engineers has worked on electricity and advertisement trading, heating system optimization, supply chain predictions, autonomous driving, oil-rig steering, payment software, and much more.

🟪 We started Podero after advising 20 apartment buildings to switch from oil & gas heating to heat pumps. We realized we could significantly reduce consumer energy costs by building software to steer electrical devices according to electricity markets. Since cheap power prices correlate with lower carbon emissions, we also measurably reduce the electricity’s CO2 intensity when saving consumers money. Theoretically, we could reduce 4.4% of all carbon emissions if rolled out on a global scale.

🟪 Podero is based in Vienna, Austria, and serves customers in DACH and Scandinavia.

Summary of the role

We’re looking for a mission-driven, ambitious, and high-performing builder to join us for the ride. We care about your ability to deliver great work and to be best-in-class in your specialism. We don’t expect you to be an expert in every subject right away as we work at the intersection of several disciplines. We do, however, expect that you are eager to learn and able to find great solutions to challenging problems.

As a Junior Product Manager at Podero, you are both an Engineer and a Business Analyst.

As a Business Analyst, you’ll work closely with Podero’s Head of Product to support in the definition of the technical aspects of our epics and user stories, supporting the engineering team in the understanding of the technical customer needs. You are a storyteller and communicator that can bridge the gap between our customer’s highly specialized trading or marketing department and the engineering team. You’re not necessarily a designer, but can draw up a wireframe of a new UI feature in Figma. You attend customer calls, as well as internal agile rituals.

As an Engineer, you will develop a deep understanding of how heat pumps, EV chargers and PV inverters work and are constantly on the lookout for new applications of our technology. You are able to explain the function of these devices to customers and our engineering team. You know your way around basic equations in Physics (P=V*I, but not E= m*c^2) and can work from first principles. You have a very good understanding of the energy industry and how the different energy markets operate. You know how to use monitoring tools, analyze data with tools like Grafana and generate reports for customers during pilot phases. You support the engineering team in the definition of the REST API contracts that our customers use to interact with our Platform and identify bugs and potential new features.

📍 Logistics - Remote or Hybrid in Vienna

💻 Work style - Lots of responsibility, hard work, fast-paced early-stage startup work.

⚡️ Impact - Remove 4.4% of global CO2 emissions.

🎯 Choosing us - You can work at any company you want but choose to work with us because you want to be part of our mission.

With your 5 or more years of experience building cloud applications, you can contribute with:

🎯 Agile product management

🎯 Deep knowledge about energy markets

🎯 Technical knowledge about household devices, such as heat pumps and PV inverters

🎯 OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

🎯 User story mapping

🎯 Basic UI design/wireframing

• Helping to refine our Product roadmap and issue backlog
• Collaborating with our engineers to design and improve an API framework for our customers to efficiently interact with our software, consumer, and device data
• Working with regulators, TSOs (grid operators), and partners to make trading household device flexibility a reality
• Incident management with customers
• Regular calls with different customer departments (Marketing, IT, Trading) and supporting them in rolling out our product
• Researching regulations, challenges and new opportunities for our product in different countries
• Creating documentation for our customers
• User Story Mapping, Domain Storytelling, Event Storming

The air you will breathe

In Podero you will hear, eat, and even breathe those concepts and tools:

• Brainstorming and Event Storming around algorithms and steering methods
• Technical discussions about heat pumps, EV chargers, and PV inverters
• IoT (Internet of Things)
• Python and REST APIs
• Data science
• Scrum and eXtreme Programming
• ATDD, TDD, and BDD development

With your expertise (≥ 2 years in product development or innovation, ideally in a startup environment), you can contribute with:

• Agile product management
• Deep knowledge about energy markets
• Technical knowledge about household devices, such as heat pumps and PV inverters
• OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
• User story mapping
• Basic UI design/wireframing

Podero is an ambitious startup. We encourage you in your and our growth with a well-defined career path that will allow you to increase your knowledge and your power skills.

Together with your expectations and Podero’s necessities, we will define the evolution of your career and will re-evaluate that periodically.

Based on your interests, there are 3 different paths you can pursue: you can develop further as a great Product Manager, or branch off in the direction of Product Manager or Engineering Manager.
In addition to a great team and an exciting mission, we offer:

• A competitive salary
• Employee stock options
• 25 days of annual leave
• Possibility to work remotely or in our office in Vienna
• Snacks & coffee at the office

We accept applications from people from any background and are striving to create a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great - Steve Jobs