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

About 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 within 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 people working towards this mission worldwide.

Your Position

As a (Lead) Product Manager for our Energy Utility Platform, you will own one of the company's most strategically important domains: enabling the energy products of the future. This involves building capabilities that allow customers to fully participate in energy markets—from flexibility marketing and dynamic procurement to trading and optimized energy scheduling. Your primary focus will be on our energy market products and the optimization layer connecting intelligent device control with market participation. You will steer the roadmap and priorities with the Engineering Manager, collaborating closely with our Energy Operations team for domain expertise and regulatory context. This role combines strategic ownership with hands-on execution, requiring you to define product strategy, write specs, run discovery, unblock engineers, and ship products.

Your main focus will be to:

• Define and own the product strategy and outcome-based roadmap for the Energy Utility Platform—covering energy market access, flexibility marketing, procurement, and the optimization layer connecting devices to markets.
• Be hands-on in execution: write specs, run discovery sprints, prioritize backlogs, and unblock engineering.
• Shape the energy products of the future: direct marketing, expanded flexibility participation, and new forms of customer market access, while tackling regulatory and infrastructure challenges.
• 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 visionary product thinking with the discipline to solve hard infrastructure problems.
• Build and mentor a small PM team over time as the domain grows.
• Report to the Director Product Heartbeat AI and contribute to portfolio-level strategy decisions.

Other responsibilities include:

• 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

The successful candidate will have:

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, with meaningful exposure to energy, utilities, or similarly regulated platform/infrastructure products.
• Proven track record of owning product strategy (not just execution)—you've made "where to play / how to win" decisions.
• Strong understanding of energy markets, tariff structures, energy trading, or energy retail operations (this is a requirement).
• Experience driving complex platform or product builds in regulated environments, coordinating across multiple engineering teams and navigating regulatory constraints.
• Strong analytical skills: comfortable with financial modeling, unit economics, and data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management: ability to navigate engineering, commercial, legal, and C-level conversations with equal confidence.
• Experience leading or mentoring other PMs (or strong signals of readiness).
• Exceptional communication skills in English; German is a strong plus.
• Based in Germany or willing to relocate.
• 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 building the products that let 100,000+ customers participate in energy markets. The decisions you make here determine whether Heartbeat AI becomes the default energy platform in Europe. You'll need both the vision to see where energy markets are heading and the discipline to navigate the regulatory complexity of getting there. If you want to shape the energy products of the future from zero to one at scale, this is it.

Benefits

• Be part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team that makes things happen.
• Accelerate the "energy transition" and have a direct impact on our climate.
• Work with and learn from exceptionally talented colleagues.
• Enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers.
• Excellent opportunities for full-time employment in one of Europe’s most thriving scale-ups.
• Remote work within Germany, with offices in Hamburg, Berlin, or Munich.
• Maintain a healthy work-life balance with benefits from the EGYM Wellpass.
• Access benefits and discounts through Futurebens.
• Flexible job bike leasing (city or e-bike) for eco-friendly commuting.