Full-Time
Energy Product Manager
Updated on 9/3/2026
VREY
11-50 employees
Turnkey communal solar energy for buildings
No salary listed
Berlin, Germany
In Person
Berlin-based or willing to relocate; the office is the team's home base.
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- You have professional experience with energy management systems and/or Internet of Things and data platforms.
- You understand smart metering, CLS/§14a EnWG, dynamic electricity tariffs, direct marketing, or flexibility marketing.
- You can structure technical complexity and translate it into clear product requirements, roadmaps, specifications, and decision documents.
- You are strong in research, structuring, and decision-making and can substantiate make, partner, and buy options.
- You are comfortable with regulatory topics and can independently learn about energy-economics questions.
- You use data and metrics to validate hypotheses, justify priorities, and make product decisions measurable.
- You have a strong interest in the energy sector and start-ups or real estate.
- You are based in Berlin or willing to relocate; the office is the team's home base.
- You speak German and English fluently.
- As Product Manager Energy, develop an energy-management and control product based on the company's smart-meter and CLS infrastructure.
- Work closely with the COO and external partners, including aEMT, CLS, GWA, hardware, and software providers, to understand technical, regulatory, and commercial requirements and derive a product roadmap, specifications, and working pilots.
- Take product responsibility for the new Energy Intelligence layer based on smart meters, CLS control boxes, and controllable assets.
- Analyze the data required and its granularity, including generation, consumption, grid draw, feed-in, battery status, heat-pump load, wallbox consumption, and asset states.
- Develop initial control logic and product concepts for self-consumption optimization, §14a controllability, dynamic electricity tariffs, direct marketing, and future flexibility or virtual power plant use cases.
- Determine what to build internally, what to develop with partners, and what to buy or integrate.
- Build an understanding of the hardware, data, and control architecture required for different building types and asset combinations.
- Translate energy-economics and technical requirements into product requirements, user stories, data models, interface requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Monitor relevant regulatory developments concerning CLS, §14a EnWG, smart metering, dynamic tariffs, direct marketing, energy sharing, and flexibility.
- Prioritize use cases according to customer value, technical feasibility, regulatory relevance, and commercial potential.
- Manage the roadmap for the company's energy products together with the COO and Head of Engineering.
VREY is a Berlin PropTech company that helps landlords enable solar power for multi-family buildings. It handles planning, installing photovoltaic systems, and the operational setup, including a digital platform that automates legally compliant billing to tenants. As a metering point operator (wMSB), it also manages contracts with other energy providers, removing the supplier obligation from landlords and allowing tenants to buy solar energy directly (potentially lowering bills by up to 20%). Its goal is to scale communal solar use, support building decarbonization, and increase property value through tenant-accessible clean energy.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3.6M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Germany’s June 2026 Energy Sharing rules expand local-solar policy momentum beyond §42b.
- VREY’s August 2026 hiring spree spans enterprise sales, operations, product, and finance roles.
- The April 2026 funding extends runway for platform automation and new building deployments.
What critics are saying
- §42b EnWG still demands 15-minute metering, contracts, and allocation logic, creating rollout friction.
- VREY’s model depends on landlord adoption; slow conversion leaves enterprise hiring underutilized by 2027.
- E.ON, Enpal, and local metering operators can bundle similar services faster, crushing differentiation.
What makes VREY unique
- VREY combines PV installation, wMSB metering, and billing for §42b buildings.
- The April 2026 €3.3 million seed round backs Rubio, HTGF, and kopa.
- VREY reports over 200 residential buildings across all 16 German states.
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6 month growth
↑ 4%1 year growth
↑ 4%2 year growth
↑ 4%Berlin-based startup VREY has secured €3.3 million in seed financing to scale its solar power solutions for multi-family homes. The company specialises in bringing photovoltaic systems directly to urban residential buildings. VREY is already active in over 200 buildings, demonstrating early traction in the multi-family housing sector. The funding will support the company's expansion efforts as it works to increase solar power adoption in urban residential properties. The investment highlights growing interest in decentralised renewable energy solutions for apartment buildings, where traditional solar installations have historically been more challenging to implement compared to single-family homes.
Styx, a Mannheim-based investment firm, has invested in Vrey, a Berlin start-up focused on solar projects and communal building energy supply. This partnership aims to overcome the challenges of existing tenant electricity models. Styx specializes in early-stage investments in start-ups that promote more sustainable cities and buildings.