AI Product Manager (m/f/x)

Job description

## About us **Cortea** is building the q**uality layer for AI-powered audits**. Our Audit Quality Agents help audit firms use AI with greater **trust, consistency, and professional oversight**. Built around auditing standards and review workflows, they enable firms to deliver more reliable and reviewable work while increasing capacity across the audit process. We're building an **AI-native company from day one**. We believe small teams, equipped with AI and empowered to move fast, can solve some of the biggest challenges facing the audit profession. ## Your Role 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. ## What you'll do - 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 ## What success looks like - You've contributed to and shipped 3+ meaningful product bets within your first 6 months, learning through iteration and customer feedback along the way. - You've gone deep on at least one core product area (e.g. a specific tool in our AI toolbox, a customer segment, our evals & quality framework, or the UX of agentic workflows) and become exceptionally strong in it - You're trusted by founders, engineers, and customers to steward important product decisions ## Who you are - 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 ### Bonus points - 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 ## What We Offer - **High impact & growth:** Front-row seat to a fast-scaling AI startup, with the chance to grow alongside the product - **Mission-driven culture:** First-principles thinking, bold ideas, and a supportive team - **Attractive compensation:** competitive salary + meaningful equity - **Personal development:** Learning budget for courses and conferences - **Dynamic environment:** Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation ## Interview process - **First Call**: Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Liza - **Second Call**: Product deep-dive with our Co-Founder & CPO Philipp - **Third Call**: Deep dive into our culture with our Co-Founder & CEO Valentin - **On-site Day (Berlin)**: Meet the team and work on a real problem together