Product Manager – Trade Intelligence (B2B SaaS Startup)

Your first 6 months

• Months 1-2: You take over ownership of trade Intelligence, your roadmap items, the ways of working. You get deep with team members, customs experts and customers, to understand where our offering can be expanded or enriched. You have already defined and shipped your first (small) improvements.
• Months 3-4: Full execution mode. You're unblocking engineering daily, making hard prioritization calls, and keeping the roadmap moving. You're feeding what you learn from customers straight back into the product and already shaping the mid-term roadmap, being a core part of the upcoming roadmap planning.
• Months 5-6: You are now a lighthouse for the platform. You bring the product team user behaviors and trends.
• Month 6+: It’s hard to predict much further than this out…

Who will thrive at traide

• Tenacity: You drive things through ambiguity. You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.
• Empathy: You have an instinct for customer pain. You feel where a customs team is stuck before they can articulate it.
• Audacity: You're willing to try the uncertain and the scary. You'd rather build the thing that doesn't exist yet than the safe iteration.
• Curiosity: You have a discovery instinct. You ask the second-order question, then the one after that, until you actually understand.
• Humility: The one that matters most. You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be, you know what you don't know, and you treat being wrong as information, not a threat.

• You want to spend time with customers and translate what you hear into actionable insights for your team and our entire product strategy.
• Your ambition is to become a top expert in AI-driven trade compliance. You go deeper than anyone asks, and you know exactly where the points of leverage are.
• You combine first-principles thinking with deep domain knowledge to build things that don't exist yet. You find the intersection of technically possible and uniquely valuable, and bring it into reality.
• You're excited about what an AI-native trade compliance platform can become, and ready to be a meaningful part of building it. The size of the opportunity doesn't intimidate you, it excites you.
• You're confident delivering company-critical projects alongside an engineering and ML team.

• You're not working directly with customers as part of your day to day.
• You think great products and fast shipping can't coexist in a regulated environment.
• You need clear scope and a settled product before you can do your best work.

Hard requirements

• 4+ years end-to-end owning and building B2B SaaS products, ideally data-, AI-, or workflow-heavy products
• Technical enough to spar on architectural and model trade-offs with engineers
• Comfortable in customer-facing roles: you've run discovery, demoed, and worked with early adopters yourself
• English Fluency (C1+) required. German (C1+) is a plus.
• Based in Berlin or willing to relocate. This is an in-person role with up to two days home office per week
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• Varied day-to-day: Every customer and regulation brings unique needs → no two days are the same
• Visible impact: You'll see the direct results of your work → for both our customers and traide AI
• Direct impact on product: You own a core part of the platform and shape where it goes
• Team culture: You'll be part of a team that communicates transparently, values humor, and supports each other with respect and sincerity
• Flexible working: We work together in office at Senefelder Platz, in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg/Mitte. Home office is an option for two days per week
• Be part of our regular team events (boat trips, bowling etc)
• Enjoy benefits like an Urban Sports Club membership