(Senior) Product Manager Smart Metering & Steering (m/f/d)

1KOMMA5° is building the energy system of the future with Heartbeat AI, focusing on integrating renewable energy sources. The Senior Product Manager will oversee smart metering and steering projects, ensuring compliance with regulations and managing cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• 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:

• 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