AI/ML Project Manager

About the role

Your role as AI/ML Project Manager is the direct link between our engineering team and our customers. This is an extremely versatile position - you will be interacting with developers, customers, business teams and other stakeholders on a daily basis.

What you'll do

• Project Management. Ensure smooth execution of complex AI/ML projects to deliver maximum value to clients while mindfully taking into account technical and organizational constraints. Hold the project team accountable for high-quality deliverables, identify and mitigate risks. Manage implementation partners and communication with diverse stakeholders, from budget holders to users.
• Product Ownership. Understand processes and pain points of clients, mapping them into ML problems and conceptualizing user-centric ML solutions with validated business value. Own & steer the roadmaps / backlog for implementation projects as well as for systems in production.
• Requirements Engineering. Identify, document and manage (non)functional requirements along a ML project, continuously thinking from a user perspective. Formulate and test against acceptance criteria, ensuring that we ship high-quality solutions and deliverables.
• AI Consulting & Business Analytics. Support our clients with AI adoption at every stage: From use case ideation and usability engineering to production roll-out and AI product lifecycle management. Analyse the client's business to discover underlying problems/patterns and enable data-driven decision-making.
• System Design. Create wireframes and prototypes using SOTA tooling, sketch solution architectures with a focus on value creation for clients.
• Business Development. Contribute your ideas to strategically shape our internal processes and offering with a focus on delivery excellence. Take ownership for specific topics, tools, or processes, and represent the Merantix brand.

What you'll need

• Team player. Strong commitment to the team and Merantix vision, and a positive attitude represented by a hands-on, collaborative approach.
• Drive. Strong personal motivation and sense of ownership, shown in organizational and multitasking skills with the ability to prioritize appropriately and effectively investigative problems using data.
• Domain Knowledge. Deep understanding of ML applications paired with relevant industry experience (manufacturing, healthcare, pharma, or public sector are a plus!)
• Entrepreneurial Mindset. Creative, highly motivated and hands-on no matter the task. You love what you do (and own it)!
• Client Centricity. You have experience working with and for clients, engaging with them and managing exchanges whilst steering projects with them.
• Track Record. Degree in Engineering, Data Science, Business Analytics or similar and first working experience in tech corporate, tech startup or management consultancy.
• Language skills. Ability to explore use cases, manage ML projects and own client communication fluently in both English and German.

What they offer

• Annual learning and development budget for attending conferences or purchasing educational resources
• Dynamic and open Working Culture with flat hierarchy, open 360° feedback, and flexibility in work-from-home policy
• Visa Sponsorship available
• Hardware allowance and supplementary work equipment
• Monthly allowance for Mobility & transportation, sports or groceries
• Access to Europe's most dynamic AI ecosystems as part of the Merantix Group