Senior Product Manager — Energy Utility Platform (m/f/d)

1KOMMA5°

At 1KOMMA5°, we pursue a clear vision: Living on wind and sunlight forever for free. To make this a reality, we are building the energy system of the future with Heartbeat AI. We integrate regional craftsmanship with scalable software, controlling solar, batteries, heat pumps, and e-mobility as an intelligent, integrated system in our virtual power plant, directly connected to the electricity market in real time. Our goal is to transition 1.5 million households to renewable energies by 2030, with over 3,000 employees across more than 80 locations worldwide.

Want to take responsibility and build solutions that truly matter? Apply now and help us shape the energy world of tomorrow.

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Your Position

As Senior Product Manager for our Energy Utility Platform, you will own a critical product area within one of the company's most strategically important domains: enabling the energy products of the future. This involves building capabilities for customers to fully participate in energy markets—from flexibility marketing and dynamic procurement to trading and optimized energy scheduling. Your focus will be on hands-on execution within energy market products and the optimization layer connecting intelligent device control with market participation. You will collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager and our Energy Operations team, who bring deep domain expertise and regulatory context. You will contribute to the product strategy and roadmap while being the driving force behind day-to-day delivery: writing specs, running discovery, unblocking engineers, and shipping. This role blends strategic thinking with strong execution.

Your Main Focus Will Be To:

• Define and own the product roadmap for key areas of the Energy Utility Platform—energy market access, flexibility marketing, procurement, and the optimization layer connecting devices to markets—with a relentless focus on shipping and measurable outcomes.
• Be hands-on in execution: write specs, run discovery sprints, prioritize backlogs, unblock engineering—this is not a strategy-only role.
• Shape the energy products of the future: direct marketing, expanded flexibility participation, and new forms of customer market access—while tackling the regulatory and infrastructure challenges that make them possible.
• Collaborate closely with Energy Operations (domain experts, regulatory context) and engineering to ensure product decisions are grounded in market reality.
• Navigate complex regulatory environments (German energy market, MaKo, grid fee structures, metering) and translate them into actionable product requirements.
• Balance product thinking with the discipline to solve hard infrastructure problems.
• Report to the Director Product Heartbeat AI and contribute to portfolio-level strategy decisions.

Other Responsibilities:

• Ensuring alignment between the Energy Utility Platform and the consumer-facing Heartbeat App (pricing display, customer transparency, product activation).
• Establishing KPIs and monitoring for energy product health (procurement accuracy, market participation, SLA adherence).
• Managing stakeholder expectations across engineering, Energy Operations, commercial, and leadership.

Your Profile

• 3+ years of Product Management experience, with meaningful exposure to energy, utilities, or similarly regulated platform/infrastructure products.
• Proven track record of strong product execution—you've shipped complex features end-to-end and driven measurable outcomes.
• Solid understanding of energy markets, tariff structures, energy trading, or energy retail operations—this is a requirement.
• Experience driving platform or product builds in regulated environments, coordinating across engineering teams and navigating regulatory constraints.
• Strong analytical skills: comfortable with data-driven decision-making and product metrics.
• Good stakeholder management: ability to navigate engineering, commercial, and operations conversations confidently.
• Exceptional communication skills in English; German is a strong plus.
• Based in Germany or willing to relocate—presence in the German energy market context is required.
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced, scaling environment where ambiguity is the norm.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with energy trading, flexibility marketing, or balancing markets.
• Understanding of how optimization/dispatch systems interact with market participation.
• Knowledge of specific regulatory frameworks (EnWG, MaKo, REMIT, MsbG).
• Familiarity with data-heavy architectures (event-driven systems, IoT data pipelines, forecasting).
• Previous experience building 0→1 products in regulated industries.

Why this role matters:
This is not an incremental product role. You're helping build the products that let 100,000+ customers participate in energy markets. The decisions you make here directly shape whether Heartbeat AI becomes the default energy platform in Europe. You'll need both the ability to execute fast and the mindset to navigate regulatory complexity. If you want to ship meaningful energy products at scale, this is it.

Benefits

• Be part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team.
• Accelerate the "energy transition" and have a direct impact on climate change.
• Work with and learn from super-smart colleagues.
• Enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers.
• Best chances of entering full-time in one of Europe’s most thriving scaleups.
• Work remotely (Germany-wide), with offices in Hamburg, Berlin, or Munich.
• Enjoy all the benefits of the EGYM Wellpass.
• Benefits and discounts with Futurebens.
• Job bike leasing option.