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# AI Product Manager (m/f/x) at Cortea AI

- **Company:** Cortea AI
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cortea/f05bc5c9-8040-4359-ad6d-8b09b6d70f6a

## Job description

## ABOUT US

Cortea is building the quality layer for AI-powered audits.

Our Audit Quality Agents help audit firms use AI with greater trust, consistency, and professional oversight. Built around auditing standards and review workflows, they enable firms to deliver more reliable and reviewable work while increasing capacity across the audit process.

We're building an AI-native company from day one. We believe small teams, equipped with AI and empowered to move fast, can solve some of the biggest challenges facing the audit profession.

## YOUR ROLE

As an AI Product Manager, you'll work on products in our AI audit toolbox alongside engineers, designers, auditors and our founders. You'll spend your time understanding what auditors need, helping shape what we build next, and making sure we ship things that actually solve real problems.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Contribute to the discovery, definition, and delivery of products in our AI toolbox
- Talk to customers weekly to uncover pain points and validate solutions
- Prototype with AI tools (Cursor, Claude, v0, etc.) to test ideas in hours, instead of weeks
- Work tightly with engineering and design throughout the build cycle
- Help us understand the messy reality of AI capabilities (and limits) and turn that into product decisions: what's worth building, what's not yet ready, where humans stay in the loop
- Bring structure to the problem space: clear writing, sharp questions, useful PRDs

## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

- You've contributed to and shipped 3+ meaningful product bets within your first 6 months, learning through iteration and customer feedback along the way.
- You've gone deep on at least one core product area (e.g. a specific tool in our AI toolbox, a customer segment, our evals & quality framework, or the UX of agentic workflows) and become exceptionally strong in it
- You're trusted by founders, engineers, and customers to steward important product decisions

## WHO YOU ARE

- Have 4–7 years of experience, with at least 2 years in a product role
- Have shipped B2B SaaS products that real customers pay for and use
- Are AI-native in how you work: you use LLMs, agents, and AI tooling daily and have strong intuition for what they can and can't do today
- Have shipped at least one AI-powered feature or product and understand the unique product challenges (evals, latency, hallucinations, trust, UX of probabilistic systems)
- Go deep into context to truly understand user problems
- Are comfortable in early-stage startup chaos. High autonomy, high ambiguity, high speed

## BONUS POINTS

- You've founded a company or shipped a serious AI side project
- You can read code, run small scripts, or fine-tune prompts yourself
- Experience in audit, compliance, legal, or another document-heavy professional services domain

## WHAT WE OFFER

- High impact & growth: Front-row seat to a fast-scaling AI startup, with the chance to grow alongside the product
- Mission-driven culture: First-principles thinking, bold ideas, and a supportive team
- Attractive compensation: competitive salary + meaningful equity
- Personal development: Learning budget for courses and conferences
- Dynamic environment: Central Berlin office, team lunches, retreats, flexible vacation

## INTERVIEW PROCESS

- First Call: Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Liza
- Second Call: Product deep-dive with our Co-Founder & CPO Philipp
- Third Call: Deep dive into our culture with our Co-Founder & CEO Valentin
- On-site Day (Berlin): Meet the team and work on a real problem together

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## About Cortea AI

## Company Overview
- **One‑liner**: Cortea builds purpose‑built AI agents that help professional audit firms review work, surface inconsistencies, and produce traceable, defensible outputs while keeping human judgment in control.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised €12M / $3.4M)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (with offices in France and the Netherlands)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Valentin Neumann (CEO, former auditor at KPMG and early‑stage employee at N26) & Philipp Hövelmann (CPO, former CTO at audibene)

## Core Business
- **Industries**: Audit automation, financial technology, enterprise AI
- **Target customers**: B2B – professional audit firms (financial, IT, internal audit, and advisory practices)
- **Mission**: Provide high‑quality, transparent AI so auditors can review work more easily and focus on professional judgment – ultimately changing how trust is created in the global economy.

## Products & Services
- **AI Agents for Audit**: A suite of agents grounded in ISA, IFRS, HGB, IDW, and other audit standards. Key capabilities:
  - **Evidence Testing**: Automates manual testing, evidence review, and sample checks with full traceability.
  - **Financial Data Validation**: Validates figures against source documents and builds an audit trail ready for sign‑off.
  - **Disclosure & Compliance Checklists**: Runs automated completeness checks against IFRS, HGB, local GAAP, and IDW disclosure requirements.
  - **Risk Analysis & Audit Planning**: Identifies risk areas earlier and builds defensible audit plans aligned with ISA 315.
  - **Audit Team Collaboration**: Assigns tasks, tracks progress, and keeps milestones on schedule.
  - **File Requests**: Tracks requests, submissions, and engagement files to prevent gaps.
- **Platform Type**: SaaS – fully web‑based, uses a “white‑box” approach so every AI decision provides a verifiable logic path.
- **Security & Compliance**: Designed to meet ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and professional secrecy obligations; no client data is used to train models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding **€12M / $3.4M** (Seed round, April 2025)
- **Notable Investors**:
  - Lead: **Cherry Ventures**
  - Co‑participants: **Dawn Capital**, **Mosaic Ventures**, **Discovery Ventures**
  - Notable angels: Larry Bradley (former Global Head of Audit, KPMG), Mehdi Ghissassi (Director Product, DeepMind), Jens Rassloff (Chairman Parloa), and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+63.6% YoY** to 12 employees (2024→2025).
  - **8 open positions** as of mid‑2025 (Senior Auditor, Chief of Staff, Fullstack Engineer, AI Product Manager, Founding Product Engineer, AI Audit Engineer, Data Engineer, Software Engineer).
  - Active in multiple geographies (Germany, France, Netherlands).

## Competitive Advantages
- **White‑Box AI**: Unlike black‑box models, Cortea’s agents provide a transparent, verifiable logic path – critical for regulated audits.
- **Domain‑Deep Team**: Founders and advisors include former KPMG auditors, BCG partners, and DeepMind PMs; methodology is built into the product from day one.
- **Methodology‑First**: Every agent speaks the language of ISA, IFRS, IDW, and local standards – results are professionally defensible.
- **Enterprise‑Grade Security**: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and strict professional secrecy – no client data ever used for training.
- **AI‑Native Culture**: The company itself is built to operate like an AI‑first team – small, fast, shipping weekly, not quarterly.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen Audit‑AI Integration**: Continue expanding agent capabilities (evidence testing, disclosure checklists, risk planning) to cover the full audit lifecycle.
- **Scale Go‑to‑Market**: Use the fresh seed funding to build sales and customer success, especially in DACH, France, and the Netherlands.
- **Maintain Quality & Trust**: Stay “methodology first” and keep human judgment central – the auditor reviews, approves, and signs every conclusion.
- **Attract Top Talent**: Hiring aggressively for engineering, product management, and audit‑specialist roles to accelerate product development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Builders, not managers” – bias for action, ship this week, not next quarter. Small team (12 people), high ownership, direct feedback, low ego.
- **Remote / Hybrid / Office**: Roles are advertised as **on‑site in Berlin** (e.g., Marketing, Engineering). However, the company already has distributed presence (France, Netherlands), so some flexibility may be possible – confirm during application.
- **Notable Perks / Engineering Culture**:
  - Everyone uses AI to multiply their own output – an “AI‑native” company, not just an AI product.
  - Deep work environment: “We love going deep” – they look for people who have gone unusually deep on a problem, regardless of domain.
  - High‑performance + warmth: Ambitious but not arrogant, human at heart.
  - Build with rigor and care – the work directly shapes how trust is created in the global economy.

## Sources
1. [Cortea Careers Page](https://cortea.ai/careers)
2. [Cortea Company Page](https://www.cortea.ai/company)
3. [Cortea Homepage](https://cortea.ai/)
4. [Cortea LinkedIn](https://de.linkedin.com/company/cortea-ai)
5. [Cortea Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cortea)

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