Product Manager - m/f/d

About us

Renewable energy is scaling. The software to run it isn't. Generation has moved out of a few hundred power plants and into millions of homes and businesses.

Powernaut builds the Energy Operations Workspace™ — the software energy companies use to operate on that new shape of the grid.

The role

Turn our long-term product vision into what ships next.

We build for a market where agents are starting to do real operational work. How much of an energy company's operation can actually be run that way, with humans on the calls that matter, is a question we answer every week.

Your job

The long-term direction is set together with the founders. You make it real:

• Translate it into a sequenced roadmap.

• Decide what ships this quarter and what waits.

• Keep each release moving along that line rather than sideways.

Three things make this role different from a standard PM seat:

• You hold two horizons at once. The multi-year picture and the immediate queue. You can explain to an engineer, a customer or a colleague why the thing being built this week serves what we're building over the next three years.

• You don't own the spec. Our engineers shape and ship their own slices of the product, and talk to customers directly. Your leverage is in framing the right problem, sequencing it, and carrying market knowledge they don't have time to gather.

• You're hands-on. With agentic tooling, the distance between deciding what to build and building it has collapsed. We expect you to work in that space rather than hand over documents.

What you'll do

• Frame the problem, not the solution: Bring a sharp, well-evidenced problem definition and the priority it deserves. A rough prototype beats a document.

• Understand the market better than anyone here: Go to trade shows, sit in customer conversations, follow the regulation and the competition. Mine the commercial team continuously — they carry knowledge that never makes it into writing.

• Turn forward-deployed work into product: Our engineers sit with customers until things work. You extract what those deployments teach us and decide what becomes part of the product.

• Build for malleability: Our customers shape their own edge with agents inside the workspace. Ask of every feature whether it makes that easier or harder.

• Sequence and decide: Weigh customer demand, market timing and effort. Say what ships now, what waits and what we don't build, and make the reasoning explicit.

• Judge whether it worked: Enterprise gives you long cycles and few data points. Define what success looks like before something ships — depth of use inside named accounts, time to first value, how the renewal conversation changes — then triangulate instead of waiting for a clean metric.

Where this can go

• Product sits at the centre of how we build, and the shape of this role will move as the product and the team do.

• You'll work shoulder to shoulder with the founders from day one, with a short path from your idea to real users.

• Scope follows demonstrated impact rather than arriving with the title.

Your profile

You're as comfortable with a three-year direction as with this week's trade-offs, and you build rather than only describe.

• Experience: 4+ years in product management on technical B2B software sold to enterprises, with a track record of things that shipped *and* got used.

• Two horizons: You hold a long-term direction and translate it into concrete near-term priorities without losing either.

• Hands-on: You prototype, dig into the data yourself, and are genuinely fluent with AI and agentic tooling — including the judgment to know when its output is good enough and when it isn't. No CS degree needed.

• Technical credibility: You read an API spec, reason about data models and integrations, and challenge engineers on their own terms.

• Judgment under enterprise conditions: Long cycles, few data points, loud customers. You decide with the evidence available, communicate the reasoning, and can say "not yet" and make it stick.

• Domain: Energy, grid, or another regulated industrial domain is a strong plus. Genuine curiosity about the energy transition is not optional — you'll be joining us at trade shows & talking to customers constantly.

Practicalities

• Europe-based and willing to travel frequently.

• Able to work from our Ghent HQ regularly.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

What's in it for you?

• Compensation: A competitive salary package with participation in our attractive stock option plan.

• Influence: Real say in what we build, with a direct line to the founders.

• Environment: The Wintercircus in Ghent, a hub that fits the spirit of a fast-growing, innovative startup.

• Team: A dynamic, expert group of quick-thinking, fast-acting people who care about what they do.

• Purpose: The profound satisfaction of making a lasting positive impact on our planet by accelerating the climate transition.

Before you apply

Not sure you tick every box? Apply anyway. Our requirements list only what would genuinely stop you doing the job.

Powernaut is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on demonstrated ability — whatever your gender, background, nationality or career path.

Need flexible hours, part-time, or an adjustment to our interview process? Just ask.