Applied AI Specialist (m/f/d)

Your mission

Overview

We’re 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?

You’ll 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. You’ll 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 [ [email protected] ].

What we offer you:

• Flexible working hours for early birds and night owls
• Dog-friendly work environment
• A secure and long-term position
• Company pension plan with employer contributions
• Regular exchange, feedback sessions, team meetings, and retrospectives
• Monthly company breakfast
• Room for your own ideas and personal development
• Free access to digital learning platforms for 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 courses for newcomers

Everyone is welcome at freshcells , regardless of gender, age, sexual identity, background, religion, beliefs, or disability. What matters most is that you’re 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 it’s not necessarily required. We are not a hire-and-fire company; we prefer to quench our thirst with a cold drink after work. You’d make a great addition to our team? Then check out our current vacancies to see where we’re currently expanding.