Founding Product Manager @ handly - 20VC backed

handly is hiring a Founding Product Manager to join a tight, ambitious early-stage team and lead product direction end-to-end. This is a hands-on builder role where you'll ship features with engineering, learn fast from users, and shape how product work scales at a company backed by 20VC. The role is based in Berlin-Mitte and focuses on velocity and real responsibility.

What you'll do

• Own product direction from understanding user problems to shaping solutions and shipping them.
• Translate company goals into clear product bets, priorities, and tradeoffs.
• Work closely with engineering to scope, design, and ship features quickly.
• Make product decisions with incomplete data and course correct as needed.
• Develop a deep understanding of users, workflows, and real-world constraints.
• Bring clarity to the team on what we are building, why, and what done means.
• Help shape how product work happens at handly as the company scales.
• Operate in a fast, low-ceremony environment with direct feedback and no management layers.
• Embrace high velocity: fast loops, few meetings, and hands-on shipping.
• Be present in-office daily in Berlin-Mitte in a modern, light-filled workspace.

What handly is looking for

• High agency: you take ownership, push things forward, and do not wait for permission.
• AI-native mindset and familiarity using AI tools and AI-first product patterns.
• Strong technical understanding and the ability to reason about systems and constraints.
• Good product taste and a clear opinion on what makes a product great.
• Attention to UX and details, even if you are not a trained designer.
• Comfortable making decisions with imperfect or incomplete information.
• Comfortable being wrong and correcting course quickly.
• Experience in fast-paced, early-stage environments.
• Side projects or things you have built on your own are a strong plus.
• Fluent German (spoken and written) because the product interface and many partners use German.
• Fluent English for internal communication.
• A mindset-focused hire: handly cares more about how you think and act than years of PM experience.