Ready to achieve real impact with Data & Ai?
AI Project Manager (f/m/d)
Who we are
We at NEWNOW believe the best decisions are made when humans and machines work together. We are a decision technology company, on a mission to make AI more accessible to business decision makers. We build AI-powered Decision Cockpits that are easy to use and let business managers combine AI insights with domain experience to generate fast ROI.
The Role
You will be one of the first key hires in a fast-growing start-up company and get to shape our growth trajectory together with the founding team of successful entrepreneurs and investors. This will enable you to expand your own entrepreneurial skillset and network.
- As a Solution Manager you will work under the guidance of experienced colleagues, playing a key role in driving the delivery of client solutions, and helping your Project Leader with client communication, work planning, and team management.
- You and your colleagues will regularly interact with the client to understand and clarify the client needs and assist in solving their strategic and operational issues. For that, you will work with and partly manage a team of experts of data scientist and machine learning engineers.
- You will also significantly contribute to the shaping and scaling of our start-up business, which entails working on sales and recruiting activities or co-defining a communications strategy.
What You'll Do
Develop and Deliver Client Solutions
- Support client communication, work planning, and team management
- Take responsibility for assigned work streams, identify relevant tools and sources, steer analysis to create powerful insights, while ensuring high quality of work
- Work with and partly manage a team of experts, from data scientists and machine learning engineers to successful entrepreneurs.
- Effectively structure communication of data, knowledge and insights to the entire team. Co-Create and deliver high-quality presentations.
- Translate data into meaningful insights; Brainstorm to understand and resolve problems; Generate answers and recommend actionable solutions.
Lead client communication and engagement, maintain and develop client relationships
- Be one of the clients’ main points of contact, maintaining and improving the client relationship
- Understand client needs and situations, assist in solving strategic and operational issues.
- Effectively manage client and team meetings, deliver clear and professional presentations to the project leadership and client team
- Show ability to work in a fast-paced working environment; adapt to changing client situations and expectations
Shape and Scale the Company
- Significantly contribute to the shaping and scaling of our start-up business and directly support the founding team
- Responsibilities can range from support in managing sales and recruiting activities or co-defining a communications strategy
- Help us build up internal processes and structures required for keeping up with our growth momentum
- Work on sales pitches to new clients
Grow as a person and as part of New Now
- Consistently seek and provide responsible feedback in all interactions
- Recognize different skills and development needs in oneself
What You'll Bring
- Possess 1-3 years of experience in top tier strategy consulting, or a high-performance environment like a start-up, or venture capital firm (minimum 6 months of relevant internships will count)
- Top of your class at a renowned university in business administration, data science, AI, engineering management or similar
- Experience in working in teams and interacting and managing colleagues and guiding client counterparts
- Possess strong communication and team skills, with ability to multi-task
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, and develop approaches to tackle small tasks independently
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for impact
- Experience in data & analytics, languages like Python/R and any visualisation tools are a plus
- Willingness to work remotely in time zones CET +/- 2h
- Fluent in English (Fluency in German is a plus)
- Willingness to travel on occasions (to our quarterly team retreats and optional co-working weeks in between)