Founding Product Manager (m/w/d)

<p>You'll join an early-stage, AI-native startup with a product that has already proven market fit. We build cutting-edge AI solutions for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) for enterprises around the world.</p>
<p>Our customers are auditors, risk managers, and compliance teams, which means evaluation rigor, auditability, and EU AI Act readiness aren't afterthoughts for us. They're product requirements.</p>
<h2>Tasks</h2>
<p>As our first Product Manager, you'll own product end-to-end and work directly alongside the founding team. You will:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Own product discovery and be accountable for outcomes</strong> — we hand you problems and constraints, not solutions. You're measured on the value you create for customers and the business, not on features shipped.</li>
<li><strong>Own the roadmap and prioritization</strong> — driven by customer evidence and company strategy, not by whoever shouts loudest. We do not want a sales-driven roadmap, and neither will you.</li>
<li><strong>Drive customer discovery yourself</strong> — you'll be in front of auditors, risk managers, and compliance teams regularly. We have strong customer relationships and access is provided, but you make it happen; nobody hands it to you.</li>
<li><strong>Build the product operating model from scratch</strong> — discovery cadence, how we decide what to build, how product, design, and engineering work as one team. You're our first PM; you set the standard.</li>
<li><strong>Work as one team with design and engineering</strong> — addressing value, usability, and feasibility together, not throwing requirements over a wall.</li>
<li><strong>Partner with our CEO on go-to-market and pricing</strong> — you bring the product and customer evidence; he owns the commercial side. You'll collaborate closely.</li>
<li><strong>Become a GRC expert, fast</strong> — controls, RACM, audit evidence, the regulatory frameworks. We'll backstop you, but you'll own becoming fluent.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>You've worked inside a genuinely empowered product organization, and you can show us what good product discovery actually looked like there — we care more about what you've shipped and the outcomes you drove than years on a CV</li>
<li>A track record of owning outcomes, not just shipping features — you can point to a decision you made from customer evidence and the result it drove</li>
<li>Strong product experience in B2B SaaS</li>
<li>You drive your own access to customers — proactive, relentless about learning from real users, never waiting to be handed them</li>
<li>Comfort being the sole PM with no playbook — you can stand up the operating model, not just operate within one</li>
<li>You learn deep, complex, regulated domains fast — and you enjoy it</li>
<li>Strong product judgment under ambiguity — you run discovery on real customers, build conviction, and know when to commit</li>
<li>German at C1 and English at C1 — you'll run discovery with German-speaking GRC teams and work with an international team daily</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Comfort working closely with technical founders and engineering teams</li>
<li>Experience with AI-native products or LLM-powered features</li>
<li>Exposure to GRC, compliance, audit, risk, or regulated industries (regtech, Big4, infosec)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Benefits</h2>
<ul>
<li>Full ownership of the product as our first Product Manager, working directly with the founding team from day one</li>
<li>Work at the frontier of how AI-native products are built</li>
<li>A steep learning curve at the intersection of product, enterprise GRC, and AI</li>
<li>A clear path to Head of Product as the company and the product team scale — your trajectory tracks the company's</li>
<li>Direct access to real enterprise GRC customers to learn from and build for</li>
<li>Hybrid in Munich — minimum three days per week in our Munich North office. In-person matters while we build trust and you absorb the domain</li>
<li>Relocation support — if you're moving to Munich, we'll cover the moving company</li>
</ul>
<p>Auxilius .ai is building AI-powered GRC solutions for enterprises. We're early-stage, fast-growing, and backed by real customers. Our tech stack includes Java &#x26; Spring Boot, Angular, Kubernetes on Azure, and OpenAI &#x26; Anthropic LLMs.</p>
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