Salesforce Product Owner (m/f/d)

As a key growth accelerator, A11 partners with Europe’s most ambitious startups and scaleups, corporates, and SMBs to connect them with top-tier talent ready to make an impact.

We’re looking for an experienced Salesforce Product Owner (m/f/d) to join and drive the Salesforce platform and automation strategy at one of our Ecosystem Companies.

As a Salesforce Product Owner, you’ll own the Salesforce roadmap and backlog end to end, drive automation initiatives, and act as the single point of contact for the platform across the organization.

Join the A11 Ecosystem – A next-generation supply chain platform, the company is redefining how one of the world’s largest industries sources, distributes, and finances materials. Engineered to unlock the full potential of global trade, it harnesses agentic AI and workflow automation to provide seamless, high-efficiency access to premium materials at scale. Since its commercial rollout, the platform has fueled exponential growth, optimizing procurement for thousands of businesses while setting new benchmarks for speed, transparency, and efficiency. Its competitive edge lies in full digitization and AI-driven supply chain management automation, eliminating inefficiencies and creating a direct, intelligent bridge between suppliers and buyers. With a team of 80+ FTEs across Europe (Berlin HQ), China, and India, the company is rapidly scaling toward profitability, driving triple-digit million GMV, and setting new industry standards in autonomous, AI-powered supply chain orchestration.

Roadmap and Backlog

• Own the Salesforce backlog end to end
• Run intake across Sales, Operations, Finance, and Customer Success and translate business needs into clear requirements with acceptance criteria and priority

Automation Delivery

• Design, build, and test declarative automation (Flow, validation rules, approval processes, assignment logic)
• Manage the AI layer across the organization

Developer Partnership

• Scope Apex-heavy and integration work with our Salesforce developers
• Review developer output for fit and maintainability
• Decide what belongs in configuration versus code

Administration and Operations

• Own day-to-day administration, including users and licenses, the security and sharing model, profiles and permission sets, sandbox and release management, and business-as-usual support
• Own the Salesforce Administrator function

Data Quality and Governance

• Protect the integrity of the data model
• Prevent one-off requests from fragmenting the data model
• Own deduplication, validation, and reporting hygiene

Stakeholder Management

• Be the single point of contact for everything Salesforce
• Set expectations, communicate trade-offs, and report progress against the automation targets

• 5+ years of experience on the Salesforce platform, with real ownership of an organization's roadmap or backlog
• Expert in declarative automation, including Flow, validation rules, approval processes, and the security model
• Hands-on experience with day-to-day administration, including users and licenses, profiles and permission sets, sandboxes, and release management
• Able to read and scope Apex, comfortable reviewing developer work, and able to decide what belongs in configuration versus code
• Proven record of translating business needs into shipped solutions across multiple departments
• Salesforce Administrator certification; Advanced Administrator or Platform App Builder strongly preferred
• Fluent in English and comfortable being the single owner of a business-critical system

Please note that this position is based in Berlin.

• Fulfil a role with entrepreneurial freedom and take a pre-validated business model to the next level
• Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
• Attractive base and bonus compensation program
• Collaborate with top-tier investors and angels (incl. various unicorn founders) as well as leading market experts

If you’re eager to join the A11 Ecosystem and shape what’s next, we want to hear from you!

A11 is committed to diverse and equal opportunities hiring for all – applicants, candidates, and employees alike. We value humans – with all our glorious multifaceted backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences – and look forward to your application.