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

1KOMMA5° is hiring a Product Manager for Smart Metering & Steering within its energy business. The role turns regulatory requirements into compliant products, drives hardware strategy and rollout, manages service providers and market partners, and leads cross-functional steering projects.

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