Your role as the Junior AI Strategy Project Manager (Public Sector) is to oversee and deliver AI strategy projects for our customers. You will support initiatives that range from developing AI use cases to creating comprehensive strategies, enabling customers to build impactful AI-driven organizations and effectively address their technology-related needs.

The first assignment of this role will be to fulfill projects in the public sector, e.g. contributing to the development and management of AI portfolios of regional and federal governments, ensure their efficiency and effectiveness, as well as advise them with technological expertise and a client-centric, problem-solving approach.

The responsibilities within this role can be very versatile since you will be interacting extensively with customers, developers and the growth teams. Therefore, it is key for you to have business sense as well as background knowledge in ML, technical implementations, and its utilization in business. In order to build and cultivate outstanding relationships with our clients, we seek team members who understand the principles of project management, are passionate about developing ML projects for and with clients, and can support acquiring new leads.

Your main responsibilities will include the following:

• Deliver successful AI Strategy projects to give clients the most value out of their adoption of AI while considering technical and organizational limitations.

• Managing customer relationships, understanding their needs, facilitating exchange, and enabling them to grow through our support to building their AI-driven business.

• Conceptualizing short-, medium- and long-term AI and data strategies to enable our clients to leverage AI at a steady and feasible pace.

• Developing and growing Merantix’ AI Strategy practice by actively advancing the company’s offering and improving internal processes.

• Representing Merantix at business events, expanding your industry network, and building relationships with customers and partners.

At our heart, we remain a startup and define ourselves by a culture of ownership and cooperation. We are looking for driven, capable, and prudent talents with a strong motivation and hunger for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.

• Team player profile, willing to learn together, support each other and grow with each other

• Knowledgeable about common Machine Learning techniques and trends, experience in evaluating Machine Learning models and AI use case conceptualization

• Organizational and multitasking skills with the ability to prioritize appropriately and effectively investigate a problem with the support of analytical data

• Curiosity to constantly explore and learn about new AI solutions and areas at the intersection of technology and business

• Experience in working with and for clients including great communication skills in German and English

• Preferably MBA or Master in/related to Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or self-taught Machine Learning experience

• Preferably 1-2+ years of full-time working experience in management consulting, leading startups, technology companies, or other fast-paced environments

• Engaging Topics and Excellence: We offer unique insights into applied machine learning research and development, working with a group of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs.
• International Team: We are a dynamic and international team. 
• We offer Visa Sponsorship.
• Learning and Development: We provide an annual learning and development budget for attending conferences or purchasing educational resources to further develop our employees’ skills. We also hold weekly and monthly events around AI innovation and implementation.
• Dynamic and open Working Culture: We have a very flat hierarchy, open 360° feedback, and flexibility in our work-from-home policy as well as working hours.
• AI Ethics: We are committed to developing ethical AI software and actively foster open discussions on this topic within our team.
• Brand new office space: Bright and open office situated on the AI Campus in Berlin.
• Hardware allowance:  We give you support to have all the equipment you would need to thrive on your job.
• Employee benefits: We offer a monthly allowance per employee that can be allocated as desired to one of the following: Mobility & transportation (NAVIT), sports (Urban Sports Club) or groceries (Edenred).