(Senior) Product Manager

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YOUR IMPACT Procurement is the single biggest cost position for industrial companies - often over 50% of revenue. It's also their biggest lever to drive profitability - something the European industry needs more urgently than ever. However, most companies still run procurement manually with outdated tools. As a Product Manager at Tacto, you'll build the product that changes this. Not through "fewer clicks", but through real procurement outcomes: creating price transparency, eliminating leakage, turning every buyer into a category expert. YOUR TASKS - Product Ownership: End-to-end responsibility for a product area (e.g., Savings, Negotiations, Price Intelligence) - AI-Native Building: Define and evolve our AI agents, find the balance between automation and user control - Customer Discovery: Direct customer interaction to uncover problems they won't openly mention - and translate these into features that move their metrics - Shipping with Impact: Work directly with engineering and design (empowered product trio model) to deliver features that drive measurable outcomes YOUR PROFILE - 2+ years in a high-velocity environment (own venture, growth startup, top-tier tech or consulting) - You have a strong interest in digital products & product management - Strong commercial sense + technical enough for real engineering discussions - You know how to run customer discovery - You use AI tools daily and experiment with new workflows - Fluent in German and English Bonus: Experience in product management, procurement, supply chain WHY TACTO - Impact & autonomy: 10% savings on €200M spend = €20M bottom line impact. You’ll have lots of autonomy to drive your own outcomes. - Top notch team: 100+ motivated & capable people, founded by ex-BCG + TUM/Berkeley alum, backed by Sequoia & Index. Work with Josias, Johannes and Adrian - AI-first: Platform built around AI agents - we ship AI features regularly - Setup: Munich, hybrid (4 days office), competitive comp + equity OUR BACKGROUND Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry, but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs, suppliers, materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a product's cost originates from suppliers, making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. We're changing that with our Procurement Intelligence Platform, trusted by hundreds of companies running billions of Euros of material. Based in Munich, we are 100+ passionate builders who are in-office, with high expectations, fast growth, and a lot of fun. We are supported by >€50m from Sequoia, Index, and Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans. WHY IT MATTERS Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives. But the world is changing. The US dominates the digital world of bits. China is scaling the world of atoms, manufacturing at unprecedented speed and scale. Geopolitics are more uncertain than ever. Europe's strength lies in its deep industrial knowledge through generations of engineering. Manufacturing worldwide runs on European machines and software. But that heritage is only an advantage if we leverage it in the age of AI. Tacto builds the AI that connects Atoms and Bits, empowering our Industrial Base to Stay Stronger and building a lighthouse for European tech. WHAT WE OFFER The people at Tacto are passionate about building the organization, growing themselves, and our product while having fun and being real. We have high expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. You'll grow at the forefront of AI, have real ownership and impact, and be surrounded by the best people in their field who challenge you and make you better every day. That is demanding and rewarding, but that's where we thrive. Besides that you have: - Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside, so you are invested in our success - Workplace: A vibrant in-office culture (> 4 days/week) in a beautiful office in central Munich - Development: A development budget and regular exposure to exceptional people, e.g., Lunch & Learns, peer mentoring, external speakers - Time off: 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”) as well as regular off-sites and team events - Health: Wellpass membership, of course, a fruit basket (!), and access to Jobrad, for your health - Family & Social Security: Voluntary pension contribution, voluntary KITA subsidy for your children Tacto is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity. 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