Junior Product Manager

About Valova

We are building the AI operating platform for Europe's hospitals so that every doctor can focus on the patients.

Behind every case lies a chain of administrative tasks: documentation, coding, billing, audits, planning. It runs through separate systems and countless manual handoffs, while most German clinics are already in the red.

We start where the effect is measurable from day one: from the case to the receipt of money. Valova codes every case, defends it in the audit, and ensures that the money arrives. From there, we take over every workflow of a hospital until an agentic system handles the routine and humans decide on exceptions. First Germany, then Europe.

A team of doctors, engineers, strategy consultants, and startup professionals. On-site in Munich and Berlin. We look forward to hearing from you!

Why this role is important

With Valova, clinics are already coding their cases significantly faster today. And that's just the beginning: we are gradually expanding Valova beyond coding, and every extension must work in daily hospital life, not just in the demo.

This is exactly where you come in. You will find out where coding teams are losing time and revenue, help decide what we will build next, and launch it with our engineering team. You are the bridge between the clinic and the code, and between our team and the people who work with Valova every day.

You will see what you achieve in black and white: in fewer minutes per case and in more cases that Valova bills without correction.

Your role in the team

You will report directly to Malte, our Product Lead, and work closely with our engineers on a daily basis. Operationally, you will work closely with our coding and billing experts: they know the rules, you turn them into products. In clinic projects, you will work hand in hand with our sales and customer success teams, and on the clinic side with medical controlling, coding specialists, and doctors.

Your tasks

• Responsibility for a product area: You will take over your own area of our product, from the initial requirement to its deployment in the clinic.

• Observe on-site: You will regularly be in clinics, observing coding teams and medical controlling, and finding out where time and revenue are being lost.

• Write requirements: You will translate your findings into clear user stories and acceptance criteria and clarify open questions before they hold up development.

• Integrate rules into the product: Together with our subject matter experts, you will ensure that coding and billing rules are correctly implemented in the product.

• Improve our AI: You will work with engineering on evaluations and check if Valova's suggestions are improving with each release.

• Support releases: You will test new versions and, together with Customer Success, accompany the launch in new clinics.

• Work with You will track how Valova is used and its impact, and derive from this what we should build next.

What you bring

• Medical background: Ideally, a medical degree, training in a healthcare profession, or experience in medical controlling. You know how a case moves through the hospital.

• First product experience: One to two years in product management, at a health tech startup, or in consulting. You have already been responsible for a feature or project from idea to completion.

• Technical understanding: You don't need to program, but you can read technical documentation and discuss solutions with engineers.

• Precise thinking: You like to question processes and describe rules precisely enough for software to implement them.

• Communication skills: You are equally confident in conversations with doctors, medical controlling, and technology.

• Willingness to travel: You are happy to travel to clinics around 20 to 30 percent of your time.

• Languages: You speak German fluently at C1 level and good English.

• A plus: Knowledge of coding or billing (e.g., DRG, OPS, GOÄ), experience with HIS software (e.g., Orbis, SAP IS-H, i.s.h.med) or tools like Jira and Figma, as well as initial experience with data analysis (Excel, SQL) or AI applications.

You are missing one or two points, but you are convinced you are the right person for this role? Then apply anyway. We look forward to getting to know you.

What we offer you

• Ownership from the first week. You will take on real projects with clear outcomes and your name on them, not a task list someone else invented.

• Direct line to the founders. You will work daily with Sophia, a doctor and former McKinsey consultant, and Christian, who founded two health tech startups and has built clinical systems for a decade. No hierarchy levels, no weeks of waiting for approvals.

• Learning at startup speed. You will experience more here in one year than elsewhere in three.

• A team, in the heart of the city. We work together on-site at WeWork at Odeonsplatz in Munich and at WeWork in Berlin-Mitte. Fully equipped offices with coffee, meeting rooms, and phone booths mean zero administrative effort, and the central location means short distances, quick access to customers and investors, and lunch options on every corner.

• A motivated team. , with doctors, engineers, and operators who set ambitious goals and support each other in achieving them.

• Team events that bring Munich and Berlin together, because the people you build with should also be the ones you celebrate with.

• Competitive salary that reflects your impact.

This is what success looks like

• After 3 months, you know Valova inside out, have accompanied coding teams at work in several clinics, and have launched your first features.

• After 6 months, you are responsible for your own product area, and coding teams know they can turn to you.

• After 12 months, your area shows measurable impact in daily hospital life, and coding teams rely on it daily.

• All the time, feedback from the clinics quickly reaches our product because you are regularly on-site.

Application process

Simply upload your CV with your application. We will get back to you for the next steps:

• Getting to know each other (30 min.): We get to know each other, talk about your career path, and answer your initial questions.

• Interview with Malte (Product Lead) (60 min.): We will discuss your background and how you approach product questions.

• Case: You will be given a real-life hospital situation and show us how you narrow down the problem, prioritize it, and translate it into initial requirements.

• References: We will speak with two or three people you have worked with, such as former managers or colleagues.

• Team meeting: You will spend time with us on-site in Munich, meet our founders Sophia and Christian, and see how we work day-to-day.

• Offer: If it's a good fit for both sides, you will hear from us quickly.

We look forward to your application, regardless of gender, origin, religion, disability, age, or sexual identity.

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