Product Manager Intern (Solar)

Company

Founded in Berlin, autarc is a ~40 person start-up who were part of Y Combinator’s S24 batch in San Francisco. Our team consists of people in Sales, Tech and Operations, with the Engineering & Product department currently ~20 people, as we continue to grow throughout the year.

Role Description

We're looking for a Product Manager Intern to work in one of our key product teams in building the leading OS for Europe's solar workforce.

You'll participate in customer visits for product discovery, help shape and maintain our product roadmap, run planning sessions and sprint preps with team leads, manage tickets in Linear and open Cursor to ship stuff yourself.

We're experiencing growth in new territories and whilst there is a GTM launch underway, each specific market has their own requirements that will effect the way our software is designed and built.

Other responsibilities will be as follows:

• Support leadership in shaping and prioritising the product roadmap
• Run product discovery alongside our teams through direct customer engagement
• Manage product operations in Linear: triage, prioritisation, sprint hygiene
• Build and ship features or prototypes directly using AI-assisted development tools (Lovable, Figma, Cursor, Copilot)
• Facilitate planning sessions with product teams and sprint preps with engineering leads
• Represent autarc in customer calls, sales meetings, and training sessions
• Work alongside our Engineers in building and shipping material

This is a Product Manager position but as the landscape of the industry shifts, we also expect you to build and tangibly contribute on a day-to-day basis.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of experience
• Strong academia background having studied at a top university
• AI-native in working with tools to help you run faster and jump higher
• Desire to conduct user interviews and product discovery
• A keen interest in renewables and clean energy
• Berlin-based and willing to work hybrid
• German native a very nice to have (or bilingual with French, Spanish, Italian, Polish etc.)

What We Offer

• Freedom to choose your own equipment (within a budget)
• 26 paid vacation days
• An annual team retreat
• The choice between Dance or JobRad for mobility
• The choice between Classpass or Urban Sports Club for fitness
• Regular team events, lunches and activities

Next steps

If your application is successful, you will participate in the following:

• Screening call with Louis (Recruiter)
• Culture fit call with a Product Manager
• Take home case study/exercise
• Final on-site interview with Marius (CTO) and the team

About Us

Right now, 25% of CO2 emissions in Europe are caused by heating our buildings. In order for this to be reduced, the transition towards renewable energy needs to be simplified and made more accessible. There are too few installers to meet the growing demand for heat pumps, and a solution to match this trend needs to be brought to the market.

autarc is developing the leading operating system (OS) for heat pump installers, enabling a more digital and efficient installation process for heat pumps.

Through this, autarc is reducing the hurdles to decarbonizing single-family homes and small apartment buildings in Europe, with the goal to help with the planning and designing of 1 million heat pumps by 2030.