Applied AI Specialist (mfd)

Your mission

Overview

Were seeking an Applied AI Technical Project Manager to lead AI initiatives. The role centers on scoping planning prioritizing and delivering AI solutions that integrate into internal and external products and workflows. You have prior hands-on experience as a developer in the AI space and can go deep when needed but your primary value is directing teams aligning stakeholders managing risks timelines and budgets and ensuring high-quality delivery. You will coordinate engineers designers data specialists and business owners communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and own the roadmap and KPIs for AI features across on-prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI initiatives: define scope success metrics milestones and acceptance criteria

• Create and maintain AI roadmaps and backlogs; run sprint planning reviews and cross-team coordination

• Translate business needs into technical requirements and interface specifications for APIs services and integrations

• Lead technical discovery and solution design for LLM RAG Vision and generative use cases

• Plan resources and budgets; sequence work manage dependencies and remove delivery blockers

• Establish delivery quality: code review gates CI/CD monitoring and post-launch KPIs

• Oversee on-prem and cloud deployments including security data governance and cost controls

• Communicate status and risks clearly to stakeholders; produce concise docs and demos for decision-making

• Drive knowledge transfer and enablement for developers and non-technical users of AI tools

• Track model and platform changes and assess impact on existing solutions; manage upgrades and deprecations

Your profile

Required Skills

• 3 years as a software/ML engineer building AI features or platforms with shipped production use cases

• 2 years leading AI projects or acting as a technical project/program manager

• Proven delivery using AI and ability to review designs and guide technical trade-offs

• Solid Python familiarity with frameworks such as AI-SDK LangChain LlamaIndex or similar

• Experience with web APIs systems design basics and networking fundamentals

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience running agile and tools (e.g. Jira) and setting measurable product KPIs

Nice to have

• Vendor evaluation and contract management for AI platforms or model providers

• Background in on-prem/hybrid deployments security reviews and compliance

• Public speaking enablement sessions or internal training on AI topics

Why us

Youll work in a software engineering environment where AI drives real impact. From building a chatbot page builder to automating workflows your prototypes will shape how we work. Youll collaborate with a young team consisting of programmers data scientists students and management. This is a chance to experiment build and grow in a hybrid on-site/remote role. Submit your resume and a short note about your experience with AI and tool-building to .

What we offer you:

• Flexible working hoursfor early birds and night owls
• Dog-friendly work environment
• Asecure and long-term position
• Company pension planwith employer contributions
• Regularexchange feedback sessions team meetings and retrospectives
• Monthly company breakfast
• Room for your own ideasand personal development
• Free access to digital learning platformsfor all employees
• Subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership
• Subsidy for the Germany Ticket(Deutschlandticket)
• Bike leasing via JobRad
• Support with relocation processes
• Free German language coursesfor newcomers

Everyone is welcome at freshcells regardless of gender age sexual identity background religion beliefs or disability. What matters most is that youre the right fit for our team.

About us

What can you expect at freshcells

Designing developing and maintaining e-commerce applications is our business. Cutting-edge technologies customers who want more than average and a fun vibrant team of over 40 web experts aged 20 to 50 from five countries plus seven office dogs. We also have a stylish office and rec room on the spacious premises of a former carpet factory in the heart of Dusseldorf.

We are vibrant and want to stay that way and we always look forward to welcoming new colleagues. You should be able to communicate in English. German would be an advantage but its not necessarily required. We are not a hire-and-fire company; we prefer to quench our thirst with a cold drink after work. Youd make a great addition to our team Then check out our current vacancies to see where were currently expanding.

Required Experience:

IC