Location: Berlin (office-first)
We’re Cortea, a Berlin-based startup building AI products that transform how audits get done.
Auditors spend too much time on manual, repetitive work. We’re fixing that by giving them AI tools that understand their workflows and eliminate the grind. Backed by top-tier VCs with €10m+ in funding, real customers, and a working product — now it’s time to scale.
We value first-principles thinking, speed, trust, and kindness. We work side by side in our Berlin office, moving fast and learning faster.
You’re here to make sure we solve the right problems. As Founding Product Lead, you’ll own core products in our AI toolbox—sometimes the entire toolbox itself. You’ll live at the intersection of customer insight, technical depth, and business sense, translating complexity into clarity.
You’ll work directly with our founders, engineers, and designers to define what success looks like, ensure we’re building for real customer value, and shape the way Cortea does product management.
Fully own and evolve products in our AI toolbox
Talk to customers weekly to uncover pain points and validate solutions
Collaborate tightly with engineering and design to deliver high-value outcomes fast
Shape and improve our product management approach as we grow
Set crisp goals, ensure focus, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact
Keep the team anchored in why—not just what
Have 5+ years experience, with 3+ years in product roles
Built and shipped multiple B2B SaaS products from zero to scale
Go deep into context to truly understand user problems
Care about outcomes more than process, and clarity more than frameworks
Know how an efficient product management approach looks like
Know what PMF really means because you’ve lived through it—preferably in early-stage startups
Bonus points
You’ve founded a company or serious side project before
You’re fluent in both product strategy and hands-on execution
High impact & growth: Front-row seat to scaling an AI startup with real ownership from day one
Mission-driven culture: First-principles thinking, bold ideas, and a supportive team
Compensation: €70–110k salary + meaningful equity
Personal development: Learning budget for courses and conferences
In-office setup: Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation
First Call — Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Leon
Second Call — Product deep-dive with Philipp
Third Call — Deep dive into our culture with Valentin
On-site Half-Day (Berlin) — Meet the team and work on a real problem together
Cherry Ventures is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Cherry Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's brightest and most daring founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 75 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Flink, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and SellerX. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with a local presence in London and Stockholm.
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