Location: Vienna, Austria 
Commitment: Full-time 

About factorymaker 

factorymaker is building AI design agents for the industrial world. We turn complex factory and infrastructure planning into intelligent, data-driven decision systems. We connect building, process, and site data in an intelligent decision space that supports companies in solving complex operational and strategic questions in a data-driven way. Our technology automates analysis, planning, and optimization processes and turns infrastructure into an active performance lever — instead of a static cost factor. In this way, we help industrial companies use space more efficiently, improve workflows, and make well-informed investment decisions. We are a Vienna-based deep-tech company building the next generation of AI-powered decision and optimization systems for industrial organizations.

Your Role 

As a Product Manager with a focus on production planning and production operations optimization, you take on the content-related and strategic responsibility for this central product area. You bring deep domain knowledge from industrial production environments and understand real planning and optimization challenges. You translate market needs and operational problem statements into a clear product vision, structure requirements, and define the further development of our AI-powered design agents for production systems. You think strategically, act analytically, and bring industrial reality into our product decisions.

Responsibilities 

• Responsibility for the product vision in the area of production planning and operations optimization

• Analysis of market requirements and customer needs in the industrial environment

• Definition of product requirements and priorities based on business impact

• Development of use cases and value propositions for industrial customers

• Close collaboration with Engineering, Product Owner, and Sales

• Validation of new features with customers and pilot projects

• Building domain knowledge within the company and ensuring professional excellence

• Co-shaping the long-term product strategy

• Support in presales and strategic customer discussions  

Requirements (Must-Haves) 

• Several years of experience in production planning, production optimization, or industrial operations organization

• Experience working with complex production systems (e.g., layout planning, material flow, capacity planning, lean, operations excellence, digital twins)

• Strategic product thinking with clear prioritization capability

• Experience as Product Manager

• Ability to translate industrial problem statements into structured product requirements

• Analytical and systemic thinking ability

• Very good German and English skills

Nice-to-Have 

• Experience in product management of a B2B or SaaS product

• Experience with optimization models, simulation, or data-driven systems

• Background in industrial engineering, production engineering, or business engineering

• Experience in a deep-tech or startup environment

• Experience working with enterprise customers

What we offer 

• Direct collaboration with the founders and deep insights into building and scaling a growing deep-tech startup

• High level of personal responsibility and real influence on strategy, market presence, and company success

• The opportunity to actively shape a new technology category in the industrial environment

• Work in an international, interdisciplinary team with short decision-making paths and an open communication culture

• International enterprise customers and demanding industrial projects

• Dynamic, innovation-driven environment with a focus on AI, optimization, and design technologies

• Flexible working hours with results orientation instead of presence culture

• Remote work possible (home office up to 50%)

• Modern workplace in the 4th district of Vienna

• Participation in relevant conferences and industry events

• Regular team offsites and retreats

• Flexible vacation policy

• Laptop and technical equipment of your choice

• Free snacks and coffee in the office

The minimum salary for this position is based on the collective agreement for employees of companies in the field of services in automatic data processing and information technology and is classified in employment group ST2. A market-conform overpayment is provided depending on qualifications and professional experience.

Interested? 

Send us your application with CV and a short motivation letter to office@factorymaker.at. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!