Senior Product Manager, Smart Metering – Steering

1KOMMA5°

(Senior) Product Manager focusing on smart metering and regulatory compliance at 1KOMMA5°. Driving projects in energy transition with a cross-functional team.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You take a central role in our end-to-end steering proposition, turning regulatory complexity into scalable, compliant, and customer-friendly products at the intersection of regulation, product, hardware, and field operations
Be the Expert on Smart Metering & Steering Regulation: Act as the first point of contact - internally and externally - for regulatory developments such as §14a EnWG, §9 EEG, §21 EnWG, and §118 Abs. 6 EnWG
Interpret legal frameworks, VDE FNN requirements, BNetzA rulings, and BDEW Guidelines, and help shape the rules of tomorrow through active industry engagement
Translate Regulation into Product Requirements: Define and prioritize development requirements for our engineering teams to ensure Heartbeat AI and connected hardware (e.g. §14a Steuerbox + Smart Meter) meets all compliance and performance standards
Drive Hardware Strategy and Rollout: Coordinate testing and lab capacities, prepare key hardware decisions, and operationalize the rollout of intelligent metering systems and Steuerboxen across our customer segment
Manage Service Providers and Market Partners: Own relationships with external service providers as well as DSOs and metering point operators, ensuring smooth collaboration and reliable market communication processes
Lead Cross-Functional Projects & Monitor Performance: Take overarching project responsibility for steering initiatives, define KPIs, monitor target achievement, and derive optimization measures from data and field feedback

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience in the energy sector with a clear focus on metering and steering
Strong project management skills, leading cross-functional initiatives across internal teams, network and metering point operators, and external service providers
Analytical, structured thinker who can define KPIs and use data to drive decisions
Entrepreneurial, proactive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity and regulatory change
Excellent written and spoken German and English - German is essential given the heavy regulatory and partner interaction
Solid working knowledge of §14a EnWG and the grid-oriented control of consumption and generation assets, as well as the broader regulatory framework (MsbG, §9 EEG, §21 EnWG, §118 Abs. 6 EnWG)
Familiarity with relevant technical standards and guidelines, as well as Marktkommunikationsprozesse and smart metering infrastructure
Experience coordinating hardware testing, lab setups, or certification processes (e.g. for §14a Steuerboxen) is a strong plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

You are part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team of people who have proven to make things happen
With your work, you accelerate the 'energy transition' and hence have a direct impact on our climate
You will enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers
You will enjoy the best chances of entering full-time in one of Europe's most thriving scaleups
You work remotely (Germany-wide), with offices in Hamburg, Berlin or Munich
Create a healthy balance alongside your work and enjoy all the benefits of the EGYM Wellpass
Benefits and discounts are yours with Futurebens
Whether city bike or e-bike - be flexible with our job bike leasing and do something good for the environment at the same time

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementdata analysisKPI definitionhardware testingcertification processessmart meteringregulatory complianceproduct requirements definitionperformance monitoringregulatory interpretation

Soft Skills

analytical thinkingstructured thinkingentrepreneurial mindsetproactive approachcommunication skillscross-functional leadershipcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingrelationship management