Product Manager
Lio
<h2>About Lio</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build AI that runs inside the world's largest enterprises.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Everyone is building AI. Very few are making it work at enterprise scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">At Lio, we're building the AI workforce for procurement. Our AI agents automate complex, mission-critical workflows across procurement, logistics, and finance for some of the world's largest companies.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Backed by leading investors including a16z and Y Combinator, we're growing fast and tackling some of the most complex challenges in enterprise AI.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for people who want to take ownership, solve hard problems, and build technology that delivers real business impact.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>The Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for a Product Manager – Pre-Sales & Go-to-Market who can bridge the gap between what enterprise customers need, what our engineers build, and how we bring our products to market.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">At Lio, product decisions don't happen in isolation. Every customer conversation, sales cycle, and implementation reveals new opportunities to make our AI agents more valuable.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Your mission is to turn those insights into action.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll work directly with our Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Implementation teams to understand customer needs, shape product positioning, strengthen our go-to-market strategy, and identify opportunities that drive revenue.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll be deeply involved in enterprise sales cycles, helping our teams communicate the value of our AI agents, build compelling business cases, and win customers.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>This isn't traditional Product Management.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our engineers own their features and make most product decisions. You won't manage a backlog or spend your time writing detailed specifications.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Instead, you'll provide the customer context, commercial insights, and clear recommendations that help our engineers build the right things and our Sales team sell them effectively.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We care about real customer value and commercial outcomes, not features that look impressive but never get used.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Connect product and go-to-market:</strong> Work across Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Implementation to align customer needs, product capabilities, and commercial opportunities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Get close to customers:</strong> Participate in enterprise discovery calls, demos, workshops, and sales conversations to understand buying criteria, pain points, and emerging use cases.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Enable our Sales team:</strong> Develop compelling product messaging, use-case positioning, business cases, and sales materials that translate technical capabilities into measurable business value.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Turn market insights into product improvements:</strong> Collect customer feedback, analyze win/loss patterns, and identify recurring opportunities for new or improved AI agents.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Influence product decisions:</strong> Work directly with engineers to clarify customer problems, validate opportunities, and recommend priorities based on commercial potential and customer impact.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Own product knowledge:</strong> Build and maintain the product and go-to-market knowledge base used by our teams and internal AI systems, ensuring capabilities, use cases, and proof points stay accurate.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Analyze commercial performance:</strong> Understand how our products perform across customer segments, sales cycles, usage, and revenue.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Improve pricing and packaging:</strong> Identify opportunities to strengthen our commercial offering, increase conversion, and unlock expansion.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Understand the market:</strong> Stay close to competitors, industry developments, and emerging customer requirements.</p></li></ul><h2>What We're Looking For</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">2+ years of experience in Product Management, Solutions Consulting, Pre-Sales, or a comparable customer-facing role.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in B2B SaaS, ideally within a fast-growing startup or scale-up selling to enterprise customers.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Direct involvement in enterprise sales cycles, including discovery, demos, business cases, and commercial discussions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong technical understanding and experience working closely with engineering teams.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with AI and LLM-based products and the ability to translate technical capabilities into business value.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong commercial judgment and an understanding of what drives customer adoption, conversion, and revenue.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Analytical skills and the ability to turn customer feedback, market signals, and performance data into clear recommendations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Excellent communication skills in English; German is a plus.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A proactive, hands-on mindset with high ownership and the confidence to challenge assumptions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience using AI tools in your daily work.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">Procurement experience is a plus, but not required. We're looking for someone who can quickly understand a complex market and connect customer needs with real business opportunities.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Why Join Lio?</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Shape how enterprise AI reaches the market:</strong> Influence both our product direction and how we position and sell our AI agents.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Work at the intersection of product and revenue:</strong> Your work will directly contribute to winning customers and growing our business.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Collaborate with exceptional teams:</strong> Work closely with engineers, sales leaders, and enterprise customers to solve complex problems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build for real-world impact:</strong> Help bring AI agents into production at some of the world's largest organizations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>High ownership, low bureaucracy:</strong> Take initiative, move fast, and have a meaningful voice in how we grow.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you're excited about combining product thinking, customer understanding, and commercial impact, we'd love to hear from you.</p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>