About us
The appliedAI Initiative elevates Europe’s industry to become shapers in the age of AI, creating a future that we desire to live in. Through our ecosystem of strong partners, comprehensive programs, services and solutions we advance companies holistically on their AI journey. With our uniquely diverse, interdisciplinary, and driven team, we build on deep technical expertise while specializing on applicability of the solutions. We share a mindset of collaboration and openness with our ecosystem of leading companies and tech players. Our common goal is to strengthen the European landscape, jointly creating unique knowledge for applying trustworthy AI.
Your mission
We are looking for an AI Project Lead (m/f/x) eager to actively shape appliedAI's role as a leading ally in assisting our client companies to leverage AI for business transformation. You will be a close sparring partner to these organizations, helping to initiate and/or scale their AI ambitions. This includes guiding them in defining and setting up their AI strategies, developing their AI use case portfolio and creating an organizational setup to bring it into action. As an AI Project Lead you will work closely with our (Technical) AI Strategist as well as intersections with adjacent teams, such as AI Engineering, Capabilities or Trustworthy AI. In addition to the work with individual partners, you contribute to developing, tech-enabling and managing a set of unique assets in the Strategy & Transformation space to help our ecosystem advancing in the age of AI.
Your tasks will include:
- Acting as a sparring partner for AI strategy to our partners and customers - from DAX to larger “Mittelstand” companies - this involves managing engagements with our partner companies as well as communicating with top management and C-level executives
- Driving the development and implementation of AI strategies, establishing effective AI operating models and compiling high-value use case portfolios
- Responsibility for scoping customer projects based on their specific needs and leading the execution as a project manager
- Leading cross-functional project teams (e.g., AI Strategists, AI Engineers), to deliver the highest value to our customers and developing our team capabilities internally
- Taking a leading role in building deep and trustworthy relationships with customers and identifying additional AI opportunities to get customers to the next AI maturity level, including leveraging advancements in AI technologies like AI agents to drive customer value
- Co-owning topics within the Strategy & Transformation team, being recognized as thought leader for a topic, and further developing top-notch assets that allow for scaling our offering
- Staying up to date and in touch with relevant strategic AI questions and AI state-of-the-art research to understand opportunities and requirements
What we offer
A highly qualified and motivated team of ~80 people on a journey to change the rapidly evolving European AI Landscape.
- Flexibility to choose / switch between our amazing office space in the House of Communication in Munich, IPAI in Heilbronn and work from home.
- Opportunity to shape a variety of projects and the development of new, original content based on the latest developments in AI and its adoption in businesses
- An atmosphere that encourages to think and experiment in new ways with software, hardware, and processes
- Hottest topics of the next decade and freedom and trust to initiate own activities
- A highly visible initiative that helps you build a large and high-level network of start-ups, partners, and tech companies
- Sports membership with Wellpass to access thousands of sports facilities all over Germany (and beyond)
- JobRad leasing option
- You can take a sabbatical of up to 3 months after 3 years of employment - because sometimes 30 vacation days are not enough to explore the beauty of this world.
Contact
Lucas Fernandes - Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
appliedAI Initiative GmbH, August-Everding-Str. 25, 81671 München
