Product Owner (m/w/d)

CERPRO

CERPRO develops KI-based software for the manufacturing industry. Our technology simplifies complex processes, such as creating test reports and raises the quality standard in production to a new level. This helps companies work more efficiently and remain competitive in the long term.

Supported by international investors and first customers, we scale our solution from Germany out into the global market.

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Your Mission

As a Product Owner, you are the central interface between our customers from the manufacturing industry, our Engineering & Data Science team, and management. You translate real problems from the workshop and quality assurance into a clear product vision and ensure that we build the right things – not just things correctly. You are responsible for the roadmap of our product and develop it together with us from a KI assistant to an indispensable platform for Supplier Quality Management.

Your Tasks

Product Strategy & Roadmap: You develop the product vision together with the founders and the Engineering team, translating it into a concrete roadmap. You prioritize based on customer benefit, technical feasibility, and business relevance.

Discovery & Customer Understanding: You speak regularly with quality managers, QS representatives, manufacturing leaders, and buyers, understanding their processes (EMPB, PPAP, VDA 2, First Article Inspection, APQP) and identifying genuine pain points before they become tickets.

Backlog Management: You maintain a prioritized, neatly cut backlog. You write clear user stories with understandable acceptance criteria and ensure that the team always knows what's next and why.

Collaboration with Engineering & Data Science: You work closely with our CTO and developers as well as ML engineers, living agile principles, moderating refinements, sprint planning, and reviews. You understand the possibilities and limitations of KI models well enough to formulate realistic requirements.

Quality Assurance & Acceptance: You test completed tickets against defined acceptance criteria before they go live. You give the team structured feedback, document deviations neatly, and decide on release – nothing goes unchecked into our customers' hands.

Interface to Sales, Customer Success & Marketing: You brief new features into the team and out: You work with sales on demo-ready functions, with customer success on adoption, and with marketing on launches and positioning.

Data-Driven Decisions: You define product KPIs (activation, retention, recognition accuracy, time-to-report), track them, and use the results to sharpen the next iteration.

Qualification

You bring with you

• Multiple years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a comparable role in a B2B-SaaS environment – ideally in a startup or scale-up.
• You understand agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) not just theoretically, but have lived them in real teams.
• You can discuss technical topics with developers on eye level – without needing to program yourself. A sense for KI/ML products and their idiosyncrasies is a clear plus.
• You are excellent at speaking with customers, listening, and recognizing the underlying problem between the lines.
• You work structured, prioritize pragmatically, and make decisions even with incomplete data.
• You have secure German and good English skills, as our customers mainly sit in the DACH region.

Benefits

We offer you

Design Freedom: You take on real responsibility for a product that already has over 150 companies using it productively and is growing extremely quickly.

Direct Collaboration with the Founders' Team: Flat hierarchies, short distances, fast decisions.

Sense-Defining Product: We set a new industry standard; you're part of this change.

Fair Package & Equipment: Attractive salary, central office, and modern hardware setup of your choice.

Team Spirit: We are a young, ambitious team with genuine interest in the industry of our customers – no consultant-speak, no high-gloss, but real problems and real solutions.

Application Process

1. Documents Review - We review your application and see if there's a first fit.

2. Get-to-Know-You Telephone Call – About 15 minutes, to get us started and clear up open questions.

3. Interview with COO & CTO – We learn more about you and discuss your skills, work style, and our expectations.

4. Lunch Together – With us in Berlin, we get to know each other personally and you'll get an impression of the team.

5. Offer – If everything fits, you'll receive an offer from us.

If you have any special needs or flexibility requirements at any point, just let us know – we'll find a solution!

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