Founders Associate (Enterprise Product) (all genders)

About Us

Your Impact

This is not a traditional FA role. You work directly with our CEO and focus fully on product. autarc isgrowing into the operating system for larger energy businesses: multi-location installers, companies with 50+ employees and utilities. They need deeper ERP functionality, permissions, integrations, migrations and reporting that hold up at scale. You drive this.

Your role sits between a forward deployed engineer and the interface to our five product teams. You lead the migrations of multi-million businesses to autarc and bring every insight from the field back to the right PM. You work as one team with enterprise sales and customer success, stay close to customers in shared WhatsApp groups and jump in hands-on whenever they need something. You also run sales calls with large ERP prospects yourself.
Your goal: a product our customers truly love. Especially in the beginning, you are on the road every two weeks, spending several days at a time with customers across Germany to build out our ERP motion.

The career path is clear: after 6 to 9 months, you move from Founders Associate to PM Enterprise. You already bring product management experience. What you get from us is the deep dive: how our product works, how we think, our strategy and our product philosophy, straight from our CEO and alongside our five PMs.Your responsibilities include:

• Lead migrations of multi-million businesses to autarc and own them until the deadline
• Write tickets and coordinate delivery across Product, Engineering, Design, Sales and CustomerSuccess
• Work hands-on with enterprise sales and customer success, on-site with customers every two weeks
• Bring field insights to all five product teams and shape the enterprise roadmap with the CEO and PMs
• Track the trades ERP and installer software market and sharpen how autarc positions itself to win
• Turn customer discovery into clear specs and decisions
• Build prototypes and internal tools with AI (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable or whatever works best)
• Own product KPIs, usage analysis and follow-through on launches

What you bring

• 1 to 3 years of product management experience, ideally at a startup or in B2B software
• You live and breathe product. You are curious and can't stop improving things
• Ambitious, high-drive and very sharp. You pick up complex topics fast and want to grow quickly
• You build things. You have vibe coded real tools or apps and can show us what you made
• AI-pilled: you use AI for everything and get excited by every new model and tool
• Strong analytical skills and comfortable with data, systems and enterprise complexity
• You earn trust across teams without formal authority, through what you know and what you deliver
• Confident in front of a room. You present to 40 to 50 people and know the product down to everydetail
• You love being on the road. Every other week at customers across Germany, with nights in hotels
• You want to work hard. We work long hours with high intensity. If work-life balance is your top priority right now, this role is not the right fit
• Berlin-based, 5 days a week in the office (Mitte) when you are not on the road
• Fluent in English and German

Big plus:

• You know the trades (Handwerk). You have worked at or with an installer, know software fortradespeople, our market and our competitors.

Nice to have:

• Experience with data migrations and coding skills (SQL, Python).

What we offer

• A clear career path: from Founders Associate to PM Enterprise after 6 to 9 months, learning our product strategy and philosophy directly from our CEO
• Real ownership: Drive your work from idea to impact.
• Low ego, high trust: No blame, open feedback, collaboration over hierarchy.
• Be part of the energy transition: Help bring more heat pumps and solar to homes every day.
• Hybrid work in Berlin-Mitte: 3 days together in our office near Weinbergspark, 2 from home. Need more flexibility? We'll find a way.
• Modern equipment: MacBook and 27″ monitor.
• Annual team retreat plus regular team events.
• Mobility: Dance e-bike or Deutschland-Ticket.
• When it gets late: Your dinner via Uber Eats and your taxi home are on us.
• Fitness: Urban Sports Club membership.

Next steps

If your application is successful, you will participate in the following:

• Culture fit call
• Build challenge: a short take-home where you prototype something real
• Final on-site interview with the CEO and the team