Product Manager

About the job

tl;dr

• After 14 years in construction tech, Lea & Jonas are building the AI foundation for the construction industry
• 6 of the 20 largest construction companies in the German-speaking region already rely on Kuro every day, representing over €40bn in combined annual construction volume
• Construction has some of the most complex, unstructured data you can throw at an LLM. At Kuro, you can tackle some of the hardest problems in applied AI every day
• Curious about the bigger engineering challenge? Explore the vision and open problems at kuro.build

About us

Lea and Jonas scaled two of Europe's leading construction tech companies - Capmo and alcemy - and saw firsthand the challenges holding the industry back. Now they're tackling the root cause: the 50% of construction work still lost to manual data handling.

Kuro is building the AI foundation for construction. We're reimagining how construction professionals get work done and make decisions by leveraging AI to augment back-office workflows and make core data accessible. We are not pursuing marginal improvements, but a step change for construction.

After one year on the market, leading construction enterprises with a combined annual construction volume of >€40 billion use Kuro every day to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions. Backed by an €10 million seed round, we already process more than 1 million pages every month and expect that volume to grow 10x over the next six months.

We are 15 people based in Berlin. You will join a group of technical ex-founders and builders who are ambitious and kind.

Learn more: Join Kuro - Berlin

The Opportunity

As Product Manager, you'll work on the platform at the heart of Kuro's product, building the foundational capabilities that enable our teams to deliver faster and scale with confidence. You'll help defining the strategy and execution, from the data domain model, project graphs, and ontologies to workflow abstractions and essential services such as permissions, document versioning, lineage, and collaboration.

Working closely with the Co-Founder & CPO, platform engineering, design, and our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), you'll ensure every investment accelerates the development of future use cases, making the platform more extensible, scalable, and powerful with every release.

What You'll Do

• Be an active voice in roadmap creation, balancing immediate platform needs with long-term strategic investments.
• Lead strategic initiatives to capture key decisions across the project lifecycle and evolve Kuro's scalable data domain model.
• Define success metrics, use production data to iterate on platform capabilities, and communicate releases across the organization.
• Make informed decisions on prioritization, scope, and sequencing, partnering with leadership on major architectural and new product bets.
• Discover opportunities with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and translate complex operational challenges into clear product requirements.

Your profile

• 5+ years of product management experience building technical products, such as AI, automation, developer tooling, or enterprise software.
• Proven experience shipping data platform products, APIs, or graph- and ontology-based systems.
• Strong understanding of how LLM-powered products behave in production and the challenges of building AI-native products.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments, making informed decisions with incomplete information, and balancing short-term needs with long-term platform investments.
• Passion for understanding users' day-to-day workflows and a willingness to become a domain expert in the construction industry.
• Fluent in German, with the ability to communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders.

Bonus:

• Familiarity with knowledge graphs, ontologies, or workflow abstraction frameworks.
• Founder experience or experience building products in an early-stage startup.
• Experience in construction technology (ConTech), AEC software, or a related industry.

Why Kuro

You are joining Kuro when it matters most. The product is live, our customers are using it daily, but their journey with Kuro has only started, and you can shape it from the get-go. There is no playbook, the world is changing at an unprecedented speed, and you can shape how one of the most critical industries around the globe wins in this new era.

Explore the technical vision behind Kuro, from processing more than one million construction pages a month to entity resolution, evidence-linked answers, and 3D project graphs. Kuro Product Vision →

The process

• Talent Acquisition Call — Intro, logistics & fit (30 min)
• Impact Call: Deep dive with Jonas & Get to know Product (30 min)
• Challenge: A time-boxed product challenge (≤4 hours)
• Challenge review and deep dive (60 minutes)
• On-site Day — Meet the team and lunch/dinner
• Culture Interview (30 Min)
• Meet several team members
• Go for lunch with the team
• Decision